Cyprus crysis made people to think whether it is safe for country to have enormous financial sector in comparison to relatively small GDP. There are a lot of countries with the economies built around the financial sectors, and whose wealth denends on its developement. Luxembourg is the country which has the biggest financial sector: its bank deposits are almost 6 times as large as GDP. However only 5% of total bank assets of Luxembourg belong to local banks, the other 95% - are assets of branches of international banks which are safe. On the contrary, in Cyprus, 81% of banks are local. So, the scope of financial sector as itself - in not the reason for worries; but the quality of financial sector - is what matters.
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In this dashboard, we integrate the most recent medium and long-term forecasts of key economic indicators for G20 countries from major international organizations, namely, the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, OECD, European Commission and the Economist Intelligence Unit. The data presented cover projections of real GDP growth, characterizing each country's output of final goods and services; consumer price inflation, as a measure of price level movements; unemployment rate, or percent of those willing and able to work but cannot find it; current account balance, providing an idea of a country's position in the international exchange;...
GDP is the single most commonly referenced figure to cover the entirety of a national economy and its trajectory in a single statistic. Measured on the basis of purchasing power parities (PPP), GDP can be used for comparisons among peer countries. Using purchasing power parity with GDP involves a decrease of bias in economy estimation as PPP takes into account the relative cost of local goods, services and inflation rates of the country. Looking at the GDP figures from historic perspective allows understanding on what phase is the economy of a country at the moment. The data on GDP from the World Bank covers the period for the last half of...