Overall the size of the economy as a whole remains 2.6% smaller than its pre-recession peak.
There is an effect upon interest rates, but it is negligible given the size of the economy.
Now the official statisticians are in trouble once more, this time for misjudging the size of the economy.
Italy's stockmarket is tiny in relation to the size of the economy, with fewer than 300 quoted companies.
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It also would increase the size of the economy by a full percentage point by 2017, and increase employment.
The growing size of the budget deficits and debt relative to the size of the economy is clearly unsustainable.
By 2037, it would be more than double the size of the economy.
An economy cannot function when debt is 7X the size of the economy.
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Relative to the size of the economy, this is still far less than the cost of the Irish bail-out.
Its banks have far more bad loans, relative to the size of the economy, than America's thrifts ever had.
According to a a recent Treasury report, the national debt will exceed the size of the economy this year.
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Its public debt, relative to the size of the economy, is lower than that of Britain or the United States.
In fact there are many countries with worse debt burdens, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of the economy.
Then we need to adjust for the size of the economy itself.
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Others saw it as an effort to protect banks in Cyprus, where the banking sector is eight times the size of the economy.
Cyprus' banking sector is about eight times the size of the economy and has been accused of being a hub for money-laundering, particularly from Russia.
The small size of the economy means a modest inflow of cash could destabilize the kyat and pose a challenge for the central bank to respond.
It also tends to obscure the fact that as government spending grows relative to the size of the economy, eventually the economy tends to grow more slowly.
Well what the soon-to-retire governor, Sir Mervyn King, might reply is that there are few countries whose banks are so huge relative to the size of the economy.
Maximising the size of the economy would mean, among other things, maximising working hours (even with diminished productivity 80 hour work weeks will produce more than 40 hour ones).
Government debt amounts to over twice the size of the economy and higher rates would vastly increase the government's repayment burden as it continually sells new bonds to finance its deficits.
Their government kept its debt low, and their banks, though large relative to the size of the economy, weren't dependent on flighty wholesale money markets but were rich in stable deposits.
On the other hand, the same devalued real, that reduced the size of the economy as measured in dollars, is expected to help the country's industrial sector by making Brazilian exports more competitive.
At a time of economic crisis, their finding resonates - economic growth slows dramatically when the size of a country's debt rises above 90% of Gross Domestic Product, the overall size of the economy.
And the turnaround comes at a cost, in the shape of a contraction in the size of the economy during the April-June quarter - the second in a row - thanks to the shrinking consumer spending.
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The banking sector is absolutely vast as compared to the size of the economy (largely as a result of a couple of decades of use as a secure location for Russian deposits) and the banks are indeed bust.
The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England all rejected Iceland's requests, stating, according to the Central Bank of Iceland, that the Icelandic financial system was too large relative to the size of the economy for plausible swap lines to be effective.
Those familiar with the discussions in the BOJ have said Mr. Shirakawa was concerned that badly needed efforts to address structural problems such as an aging population and the country's dire public debt at more than twice the size of the economy were left unaddressed under the frequent changes in the nation's leadership.
But critics of the banks' sheer size - and there are a few of those around, including the governor of the Bank of England and the chairman of the FSA - will be concerned that British banks will remain dangerously large relative to the size of the economy and the financial resources of the British state.
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