Portugal's structural hole is just over 3% of GDP - half the size of America's.
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French public spending is now around 58% of GDP - by far the highest in the eurozone.
The ten year GDP-weighted average euro priced government bond yield is now at 5.29%, the highest since 2002.
Ukraine uses 138, 000 BTUs of energy for every dollar of GDP--roughly 30 times the level of consumption in Japan.
This role costs some 1% of GDP - is this a worthwhile investment?
She also said the company in the long-run should be a GDP-type growth company, with profits growing faster than revenues.
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In 1989, Spain's ratio of government debt to GDP - the value of what the country produces - was just 39%.
If current trends persist, in 75 years health care will consume about 50% of the GDP--and all of the federal budget.
Their annual budget deficit should be below 3% of their gross domestic product (GDP - the total output of their economy).
That degree of tightening - about three quarters of 1% of GDP - is unlikely to send the US back into recession.
Overall the ambitions of austerity to reduce the debt-to-GDP-ratio, which had surged in the aftermath of the financial shock in 2008, has failed.
And after a rare decline in nominal GDP--real GDP plus inflation--during the fourth and first quarters, we expect second-quarter growth rates to turn positive.
It showed that public and private spending on higher education in the UK is 1.3% of GDP - below the OECD average of 1.5%.
After the second world war, Britain sank down the GDP-per-head league tables, looking enviously at the German and Japanese economic miracles in the 1970s.
So this news comes on the heels of a report last week that the overall output of our economy -- our GDP -- is increasing.
The government has run up a budget deficit equivalent to 5.6% of GDP -- 1.6 percentage points higher than the IMF wants it to be.
Manufacturing may also have potential, although it would be starting from a much lower base - only 6% of GDP - and has been shrinking up until now.
This can be seen just by looking at government bond yields: the ten year GDP-weighted average euro yield is now at 5.29%, the highest since 2002.
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And some of the Republican proposals would take it back -- as a percentage of GDP -- back to where we were back in the 1920s.
It has a high debt - 110% of GDP - but this was manageable because those who lend to the Italian state are, largely, the Italian people.
The average current account gap for the first three quarters - at 2.7% of GDP - is below the 3.1% of GDP for the same period in 2010.
The point is to stop thinking we have to maximise anything - whether it's some measure of "happiness" or GDP - and start focussing on how to live.
Even in 2030, Greek sovereign debt would still be 130% of GDP - double the ratio that most would argue is a sensible, sustainable ratio of debt to GDP.
We're already seeing that in large sovereign-wealth funds, such as the decision by Norway's oil fund to adopt a GDP-weighted bond portfolio that ramps up the exposures to emerging markets.
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Well, Sir Mervyn King will be relieved to hear that Wadhwani does not like the idea of targeting nominal GDP - the cash value of the economy - instead of inflation.
In the decades since, health care has grown into one of America's most gigantic enterprises, 17% of GDP -- arguably too much but still a huge driver of employment and investment.
But, as John Springford has pointed out, from the Centre for European Reform, it's the equivalent of about 0.03% of our GDP - roughly the annual budget of Oxfordshire County Council.
The banking system had grown to eight times the size of the Cypriot economy's annual economic output - or GDP - although the restructuring of the two biggest lenders should significantly shrink that number.
In China fixed investment (on a GDP-consistent basis) is running more than 20% higher than a year ago, real consumer spending in urban areas is up by almost 11% and car sales have surged by 70%.
The stated debt is deceiving because in real terms Japan only owes the equivalent of 100% of GDP--Japan has Y1, 000, 000 billion in foreign exchange reserves and owns part of its debt, it doesn't offset debt for reporting purposes.
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