Showing posts with label Ireland and Iceland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland and Iceland. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2014

3/5/2014: Crisis Impact Comparatives: GDP changes 2007-2013

A very interesting map plotting changes in the GDP across various European countries since 2007:


My own calculations using IMF database and showing more up-to-date data and broader set of GDP metrics covering all advanced economies ex-Luxembourg, San-Marino, and Latvia (you can click on the image to enlarge):





One sample of just European economies:



And two sets of summary tables pooling together Euro area 'peripherals' plus Iceland:



We can't really say we are much better off than Iceland, and we are certainly to-date worse off than Portugal, although we are better off than Greece.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

25/02/2012: Poster-boys of Recovery?

So does this really, I mean really, look like a recovery to any one of you?


The chart above plots evolution of nominal GDP in current US dollars from the pre-crisis peak (set = 100 for every country) through years following the beginning of the crisis (t=0). All data - IMF WEO and September 2011-February 2012 country-specific updates.