Market Potential for WFD Consulting: Trends and Outlook
states, infrastructure investments, other provisions of the ARRA, and lower revenues as a result of the recession in- creased the deficit as a percentage of GDP over the last few years to levels not seen since the Second World War. More recently, the Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed to avert default on the U.S. government's debt and to outline means by which budgets must be trimmed going forward. As discussed earlier, BLS assumes that no additional mon- etary or fiscal stimulus programs or quantitative easing ef- forts will be implemented during the 2010–2020 decade. Details regarding deficit reduction legislation were not yet resolved in time to be included in the 2020 projections. In light of the preceding assumptions, BLS projects a budget deficit of $846.1 billion in 2020, representing an annual decline of 4.0 percent from the 2010 deficit of $1.3 tril
Emerging markets comparison using the Market Potential Index
There are eight indicators on the market potential index: market size, market intensity, growth rate, consumption capacity, commercial infrastructure, receptivity, economic freedom and country risk.