How to Save the Global Economy: Spend $1 Trillion On The Future

In: FP, Issue 191

Abstract

It may seem obvious, but three years and counting into the economic crisis we need to say it: An economy that's not growing fast enough will struggle to pay its bills and create jobs. And that's exactly what's happening. Growth in the developing world, while still well above that of advanced countries in 2011, was hit hard by the extreme volatility in international financial markets, which in turn hurt domestic demand in many emerging-market economies and also had spillover effects in terms of capital flows and trade. Meanwhile, the International Labor Organization estimated a 2011 global unemployment rate of 6.1 percent -- that's 203.3 million people out of work. Adapted from the source document.