The problems we've been enduring have not been income statement issues (not a GDP issue); they are balance sheet issues.
The GDP issue is whether the Crash of '08 will cause people to work fewer years, less hard or less productively.
But with public-sector debt already equivalent to some 47% of GDP, more such issues could lead to an Argentina-style collapse.
In light of the differing availability of end-of-life care, cultural perspectives, prevailing diseases, gross domestic products (GDP) and other issues such as a lack of trained health workers, overstretched health systems etc., data on preferences from high income settings cannot be extrapolated to low income countries.
Its official debt is about 26% of GDP (including bonds issued by the Ministry of Railways and other bits and pieces).
Greece itself issued GDP warrants in 2012, as part of the package offered to participants in its first debt restructuring.Why aren't GDP-linked bonds more common?
The combined debts of China's central and local governments add up to about 50% of the country's GDP (including bonds issued by the Ministry of Railways and China's policy banks, intended for state-directed lending).
That so-called singularity — machines becoming smarter than people — could be, as he puts it, "the best or worst thing ever to happen to life as we know it, so if there's even a 1% chance that there'll be a singularity in our lifetime, I think a reasonable precaution would be to spend at least 1% of our GDP studying the issue and deciding what to do about it".
It could be the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity, so if there's even a 1percentt chance that there'll be a singularity in our lifetime, I think a reasonable precaution would be to spend at least 1percentt of our GDP studying the issue and deciding what to do about it.
Less than 10% of the literature search was on finance issues, location, GDP, employment, Sub-Sahara, job creation, Nigeria, China, Africa, Europe, Cross-country studies relating to SMEs.
