The third possibility would be a combination of these: the GDP figures are a bit better than we thought (as the Bank of England has long believed), but we are also seeing a prolonged hit to our productivity, not just from the crisis, but as a result of subsequent re-balancing of the economy.
And there are continuing signs of Turkey's economic recovery after the setbacks of a couple of years ago: the latest GDP figures, published on March 31st, show the economy grew by 11.4% in the fourth quarter of 2002 compared with the same period in 2001.
While Asian financial markets were boosted by the January-March GDP figures and the reactions of the yen and Tokyo stocks, given the uptick's roots in government spending, regional economies were never in line to seen any spillover benefit.
The weakness of the global economic recovery was underlined this morning by figures showing GDP growth in Germany slowed to 0.1% between the first and second quarters of 2011, about a fifth of the rate expected by forecasters.
Many assumed that the 0.1% GDP growth figures for the last quarter of 2009, announced in January, would disappoint voters.
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The estimates of total primary energy consumption are those of the EIA. For GDP figures, the EIA used data from Global Insight.
On the soon to be announced GDP figures, he said that because of the climate over winter it was likely to be "a pretty bad quarter" but said there should be evidence of "quite strong growth beginning to happen in manufacturing and exports".
In days past, high tech grew at five times the rate of GDP, but in the future tech will grow at only twice GDP, Fiorina figures.
But it has been forced to revise downwards its estimate of the overall state of economy after it admitted that it had not included some figures in the latest estimates for GDP that would bring down the growth rate further.
To Mr Singh's credit, it is the plight of the poorest, not India's GDP growth-figures, that is usually the starting-point for his policy speeches.
There was further confirmation of the extent of Germany's problems on November 21st, when figures showed that GDP grew by only 0.3% in the third quarter of the year, compared with the previous three months.
But Caixin Weekly, a Beijing magazine, reports that provinces still vie with one another to boost their GDP figures with the help of big investment projects.
The NBER waited until now to declare an end to the recession because its Business Cycle Dating Committee wanted to see the most recent revisions of GDP and GDI figures, released in July and August.
For context, the Congressional Budget Office figures that under the most likely fiscal scenario, the debt will approach 90 percent of GDP by 2022.
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The figures have been devised as an attempt to find a measurement for GDP or overall output of the Northern Ireland economy for the first time.
Most analysts think that the current cycle of monetary tightening is at or near its end, particularly since the latest GDP figures were so disappointing.
The country achieved a single digit inflation rate of 8.6% and the lowest fiscal deficit to GDP ratio of 4.8% in decades, according to figures from the Minister of Finance.
Thus, the nominal GDP figures give perhaps a better impression of the true rate of growth.
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GDP, one of the highest figures for any major economy in the world.
In its long-term fiscal forecast, the Congressional Budget Office figures that in 25 years, the federal government will be spending about 10.5 percent of GDP on Medicare, Medicaid, and the new health insurance subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act.
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In Northern Ireland, we do have a series of figures called called the indexes of production, services and construction which are sometimes used as a proxy for GDP.
Gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the first three months of 2012 will be released by the ONS on 25 April.
It will account for about 8% of GDP by 2060, the government's figures show.
Value added in manufacturing accounted for almost 16% of GDP in 2002, on figures from the OECD, down from 32% in 1970.
However, this is a net figure: the gross figures might be purchases of foreign assets of 10% of GDP, and sale of British assets of 4% of GDP.
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If GDP figures for the economy in the second quarter of 2011 turn out to be as weak as most economists expect, the question of whether the banks are doing enough to support private-sector enterprises will again be asked loudly by politicians and media.
Those GDP figures I mentioned earlier showed that the small amount of growth the UK had in 2012 was all thanks to public and private consumption.
Nobody can be sure that it will decide to cut interest rates then, but an increasing number of economists expect it to, especially after the latest GDP figures.
To the left of each country is its total tax revenues as a percentage of its GDP (in 1997, the latest year for which figures were available).
Mickey Levy, chief economist at Bank of America, argues that what really stands out in the latest GDP figures is the 3.5% annualised growth in personal consumption.
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