The OBR assumes that spending on health will rise in line with GDP.
The growth rate in China's bank lending has halved over the past year or so, and is now broadly in line with GDP growth.
In mature markets, with the turbo-boost of leverage gone and bank balance-sheets still to be slimmed, a growth rate in line with GDP is probably as much as can be hoped for.
It estimates that China's consumers, companies and governments combined are now indebted to the tune of 205% of GDP, a figure that is broadly in line with the 198% of GDP previously estimated by Fitch Ratings.
It may take several years for government revenue, borrowing and spending to be brought in line with both of the percentage of GDP targets stated above.
Also, the pace of the tightening in the UK - at about 1% of GDP a year - is broadly in line with what the IMF recommends for advanced countries generally.
You seem to be a little bit further than consensus on GDP, but in line with consensus on unemployment.
In most Asian economies, private consumption is 50-60% of GDP, which is not out of line with rates in countries at similar levels of income elsewhere.
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State-level GDP figures suggest a performance in line with India's average in recent decades.
He tried several times to make growth appear as if it was in line with his 4 percent forecast earlier in the year, citing 2.5 percent growth in agribusiness GDP, up 10 percent annualized and 1.1 percent industrial sector growth, up 4.4 percent.
Regarding China, although their GDP came lower than the consensus it was in line with estimates of many analysts including ours.
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The City had expected GDP to grow by 0.5%, in line with a forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in late November.
But Europe's bail-out fund is not big enough to handle the country next in line: Spain, the euro's fourth-biggest economy, with a GDP bigger than Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined.
He says that he expects UK GDP to decline by 4% for the year, in line with the forecast by the IMF, but weaker than the chancellor's forecast for a drop of about 3.5% in GDP.
Obviously, a maker of passenger cars might be inclined to agree that growth is slowing in China, but that 7.6 percent GDP growth is not out of line with car sales.
If expansions in base money were correlated with predictably higher GDP growth, and contractions in base money were correlated with predictably lower GDP growth, the slope of the line would be flatter and the fit would still be reasonably good.
While GDP growth for the region is expected in the 4% to 5% range, in line with the East Asian Tigers, currency pressures and inflation, along with the possibility of a substantial slowdown in either Brazil or China, pose huge risks for the region.
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