7 per cent from economists polled by Reuters.
Shanghai United Real Estate, a little-known Chinese property developer, is planning to invest more than A$1bn in Australia, shrugging off economists' growing concerns about the emergence of a possible "housing bubble" in the main cities.
As older generations start to die off without younger generations starting families behind them, economists say Japan shows all the signs of a "demographic time bomb.
World leaders and economists lauded China's stimulus at the time for helping to stabilise global growth at a time when developed countries were deep in recession.
But economists see a couple of longer-term trends.
Talk to a bunch of economists and they will doubtless tell you that poor productivity growth is the scourge of our age.
I know economists who now say that Brexit will cause a recession this year, having failed to produce one in 2016.
Professionals, from economists to town planners to traffic engineers to legislators to insurers, are starting to grapple with the massive changes this will bring.
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Bankers and economists – who have powerful incentives to compensate for news-borne hazards – have shown that they cannot.
Mainstream economists paid little heed to the chatter — deeming it too preposterous to take seriously, given the economic damage it would inflict.
The Federal Reserve will wait six months before raising interest rates again, according to a survey of top economists that suggests policymakers will maintain a cautious approach to tightening policy until they see the economic package US president-elect Donald Trump has promised.
Deleveraging is just beginning in the EM and the road looks to be long, the JPMorgan economists noted in their report late last month.
Economists have analysed the US election results and found that the swing in the voting shares towards the Republican party since 2000 was larger in areas that were hit harder by Chinese import penetration after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
This kind of over-reliance on a single export notoriously depresses all other industries in a country, in a phenomenon known by economists as "Dutch Disease".
The economists David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald have shown that mental stress in the workplace has only grown worse over the years.
Some economists believe the reforms are not enough to secure pensioners' livelihoods.
For the first time, economists at the World Bank this year sought to measure the regulatory environment for female entrepreneurs in starting a business, property rights and enforcing contracts.
As the economists note, SDRs are treated as a potential claim on the underlying cash liquidity represented by the currencies that make up the basket.
Median forecasts from economists had predicted exports and imports would drop 4 per cent and 5.
