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...taken into account. Because the period began with easy access to capital followed by a sharp drop in the stock market and property values, it is now being compared to what many economists believe began in the US two years ago. They fear, probably with good reason, that GDP growth will simply stay in a narrow band of extremely modest growth or no growth at all and the lack of consumer and business spending and demand for exports will cause deflation...
...concern about the American economy which is re-emerging is not whether it will run sideways for years the way that the Japanese economy did; it is whether the US GDP and employment will continue to tumble and go on looking for a bottom for several months...
...infrastructure to energy. This year, Kathmandu has suffered routine 17-hour power cuts, which have led to a drying up of foreign investment. Enduring fuel shortages have sent commodities' prices soaring, and the financial downturn has led thousands of overseas workers - whose remittances comprise some 16% of the national GDP - to return home unemployed. National security has also deteriorated, partly as a consequence of the government's failure to integrate the roughly 30,000-strong Maoist rebel army, still quartered in remote camps throughout the country, with the formerly royalist state forces. Some frustrated Maoist commanders have even called...
...True protection calls for a reevaluation of how the value of the environment is assessed. The environment is not a luxury good, and by some estimates it contributes $33 trillion to the global GDP, so it can no longer be treated as an unnecessary amenity. But the reevaluation requires massive cultural shifts, which, yet again, require education, not new laws...
...economy, and therefore the U.S. dollar, could plunge because of continued large U.S. current-account deficits, an unstable banking sector and a recession-busting, expansionist monetary policy. The budget deficit, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will reach $1.8 trillion this fiscal year, or 13% of GDP, is reaching heights not seen since World War II. (See the top 10 worst business deals...