1. The World Bank and IMF’s Repeatedly Over-Optimistic Economic Growth Projections for Haiti
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, GDP)

... Blog.” They note that the latest “projections of 6 percent or higher GDP growth in 2013 seem unfounded.” The institutions’ growth projections for Venezuela in recent years, by contrast, have repeatedly ...

2. Policies to Match the Rhetoric: Buen Vivir in Ecuador
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A guest post by former CEPR intern Tara Ruttenberg. Ecuador made international headlines this week, first for plaintiffs taking their fight to Argentina and Colombia to hold Chevron accountable for decades ...

3. Economic Growth in Venezuela
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... Not only the military coup of 2002, but the management-led oil strike of 2002-2003 was devastating to the economy, inflicting a loss of about 29 percent of GDP. For an analogy, imagine that in the U.S. ...

4. Growth in GDP Falls to 2.2 Percent in First Quarter
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Growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell to 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis' latest report. GDP had increased at a 3.0 percent annualized rate ...

5. Congressional Budget Office Projects the Return of the Housing Bubble
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... their bubble value. This projection has some important implications for its economic projections. Higher house prices imply greater wealth. With the value of residential housing roughly equal to GDP ...

6. Brazil's GDP Slows, Weighed Down by Falling Manufacturing
(Matching tags: GDP, latin america, Brazil)

Brazil’s GDP growth slowed dramatically in 2011, falling from 7.5 percent growth in 2010 to 2.7 percent last year. In the fourth quarter, it grew by just 1.4 percent on an annualized basis. This is actually ...

7. Why GDP Per Capita Can Start A Bar Fight
(Matching tags: health care, GDP, europe, life expectancy, taxes)

... claim that the U.S. economy is preferable to Europe's. Someone will undoubtedly start quarreling about how GDP per capita doesn't measure a person's happiness." NPR's Planet Money blog asked Dean ...

8. A Tale of Two Deficit Charts
(Matching tags: economy, recession, housing, GDP)

Not long after I first came to Washington 20 years ago I was at a conference dealing with Social Security privatization. One of the panelists used a number for the administrative costs of private accounts ...

9. Slow Pace of Reconstruction Leads to Lower Economic Growth
(Matching tags: aid distribution, imf, world bank, economy, GDP)

... in their first review of Haiti’s economic program in May: Real GDP is expected to grow by 8.6 percent, assuming concerted strong efforts by the authorities and the international community to speed ...

10. Strong Investment Gives GDP a Boost, But Growth Remains Weak
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Strong investment, particularly in non-residential structures and equipment and software, boosted GDP growth in the third quarter, according to the latest Bureau of Economic Analysis' report on the Gross ...