The second quarter
GDP numbers showed that companies in most industries were spending, and imports of machinery and equipment — a proxy for investment — are strong.
Not exact matches
(And if you're in the market for more startling
numbers having to do with gender diversity, «the findings come on the heels of a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that
showed $ 28 trillion could be added to global
GDP by 2025 if men and women contributed equally to the workforce,» the UK's Guardian newspaper notes.
The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report (pdf - h / t to Kady O'Malley) that makes note of the distinction between Gross Domestic Product (
GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI), and
shows that by the latter measure, the fourth quarter of 2008 was even more dreadful than the
GDP numbers that made all the headlines.
The recently announced preliminary third - quarter
GDP (gross domestic product)
numbers from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
showed that the UK economy expanded at 0.4 percent, modestly higher than the 0.3 percent in the second quarter and more than estimated by the central bank staff.
I would argue that this
shows indeed that the economy is recovering, and these
numbers are in line with the weak
GDP recovery outlined above.
Figures from a European Commission report on science, technology and competitiveness
show that, in general, the more spent on R&D as a proportion of
GDP, the higher the
number of publications per million people, as you might expect.
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On the other end of the list, the sad bottom, Burundi took last place with a score of 2.905
showing low
numbers for
GDP per capita and freedom to make life choices.
The survey results
show the real gross domestic product (
GDP) is expected to rise steadily from 2.5 percent this year to 3 percent in 2013 to 3.2 percent by 2014; the nation's unemployment rate is expected to fall to 8.0 percent in 2012, 7.5 percent in 2013, and 6.9 percent by 2014; and the
number of jobs created is expected to rise from an expected 2 million in 2012 to 2.5 million in 2013 to 2.75 million in 2014.