Qatar has continued to achieve stable
real GDP growth rates of 3.
A recent IMF study, for example, concludes that countries can raise productivity by improving the design of their tax system, and that eliminating such barriers would, on average, lift countries' annual
real GDP growth rates by roughly one percentage point over 20 years.
A return to marginal positive
real GDP growth rates in 2016 will be followed by years of sluggish growth.
In FY16 inflation and
real GDP growth rates are expected to be similar to FY15, with growth supported by higher public sector wages, public investment and remittances.
The revisions to
real GDP growth rates are measured as a percentage point difference from the previously published growth rate.
If real rates are expected to be close to or lower than
real GDP growth rates for a prolonged period of time, some increases in debt-financed government spending, especially public investment, may not increase public debt in the medium term.
Countries like Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda on average quadrupled their
real GDP growth rates, while bringing inflation generally down into single digits.
A negative coefficient estimate would suggest that more highly dollarised/euroised countries experienced larger fall in
real GDP growth rates during the crisis.
An empirical investigation of asymmetric volatility in
real GDP growth rates of Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada was carried out by (Ho and Tsui, 2003).
To note, in the World Economic Outlook the IMF forecasts slowdown of
real GDP growth rates in Armenia from 7.
The survey, which projects the
real GDP growth rates at 3.
Real GDP growth rates have produced readings in the 2 percent range since fiscal 2003.
