In order to answer the given questions, two counties that are Australia and United States are taken into consideration. The rate of growth of the gross domestic product, unemployment rate and the inflation rate of Australia and the United States is collected from the Word Bank database and the International Monetary Fund database. The data is collected from the databases from a period of 2000 to 2017. The historical data is considered for the time period of 2000 to 2014 and the current data is considered for the period of 2015 to 2017.
The growth rate in gross domestic product is calculated annually at market price based on the local currency. The aggregated are based on constant 2010 United States dollars. The rate of growth of the gross domestic product for Australia in the period of 2000 was 3.94 percent annually. The highest rate of growth of the gross domestic product was achieved by the Australian economy during the period of 2002 and 2004 which was around 4 percent. The economy was performing well during the period of 2007 and 2008 with a growth of 3.77 and 3.65 per annum.In the year 2009 the suffered a set back and the rate of growth of the economy fell to 1.92 percent. In the year 2012 the growth was around 3.89 percent (“World Bank Open Data | Data”, 2018).
Now, for United States, the growth rate of gross domestic product was 4 percent during the period of 2000. It fell significantly to 0.97 percent in the year 2001. The economy started recovering from this low growth level and increased to 3.34 percent per annum in 2005. During the period of 2008 and 2009 the US economy experienced a negative growth rate of -2.77 percent. Finally the economy started recovering and in 2014 the growth rate was 2.56 percent per annum (“World Bank Open Data | Data”, 2018). Graphically,
When analyzing the historical data for unemployment rate in Australia, the rates were as high as 6.28 percent in 2000 and further increased to 6.73 percent in 2001. Further the unemployment rate decreased to 5.92 percent in 2003 and further to 5.38 and 5.03 percent in 2004 and 2005. The unemployment rate was as low as 4.23 percent in 2008 but steadily increased to 5.55 percent in 2009 to 5.65 percent in 2013 and finally to 6.07 percent in 2014 (“World Bank Open Data | Data”, 2018).
The unemployment rate for US was around 3.99 percent for the year 2000. The rate increased slowly from 4073 percent in 2001 to 5.98 on 2003 and further to 5.78 in the year 2008. However in the years of 2009 and 2010 the unemployment rate was as high as 9.25 and 9.63 percent respectively. This high rate started falling to 8.94 to 8.06 from 2011 to 2012. Finally in the year 2014 the rate was as low as 6.17 percent (“World Bank Open Data | Data”, 2018). D
The inflation rate is calculated using the consumer price index data. The historical inflation rates for Australia is about 405 percent in the year 2000 that gradually decreased to 3 percent in the year 2002 and further to 2.3 percent in the year of 2004. The rate of inflation increased to 4.3 percent in the year 2008 and surprisingly to 1.8 percent in 2009 further increasing to 3.3 percent in 20111 and finally to 2.5 percent in the year 2014.
Now, considering the inflation rates for United States it can be seen that the inflation rate was around 3.4 percent in the year of 2000. The rates declined steadily to 1.6 percent in the year 2002. However, there was further increase in the rate of inflation. The rate increased steadily to around 3.4 [percent in the year 2005. In the year 2008 this rate was 3.8 percent and during the period of 2009 there was a negative rate of inflation. After this, inflation rate increased to 3.1 percent in 2011 and 1.6 percent in 2014.
Source: Author’s own creation in MS Excel
From the above historical data it can be analyzed that the Australian economy from the period of 2000 to 2008 was performing well. The economy was in the phase of expansion with high economic growths and low level of unemployment and inflation rates. However, in the years of 2009 there was an economic depression that was observed in the Australian economy which led to contraction of the economy and eventually to trough. The economy eventually started to recover after 2009 and there was expansion of the economy till 2014.
The economy of the United States was performing well in the early phase of the 19th century. The economy reached to the peak in the year of 2004. However, there was a severe depression during the period of 2008 and 2009. The economy came to a trough. There was high level of unemployment and fall in the rate of inflation in the United States economy. The economy came to a trough. However, in the consequent years the economy started to recover. There was increase in the growth of the gross domestic product, the rate of unemployment also decreased significantly till the year 2014. Thus the economy started to recover from the recession of 2009.
When the historical data of Australia is compared with the current data, then it can be observed that the growth rate of the GDP of Australia is falling. In the year 2017 the rate was as low as 1.95 percent. The economy is contracting and moving towards trough. The reason for such a slow growth rate was mainly due to fall in exports and weaker construction in the economy. Although the spending by the households grew and also the consumption that is made by the government also increased but this increase was ruled out by the fall in exports. The household spending grew mainly because of the rise in health concerns, more expenditure on hotels, recreation, restaurants (Wong, Selvanathan &Selvanathan, 2017). The investment in the public sector also increased. Thus overall there was an increase in the consumption of the public and the private sector. There was also decrease in the electricity costs and prices of other fuels (Aslani, Rezaee&Mortazavi 2017). However, this increase in the expenditure that is expected to be good for the growth of the gross domestic product of the economy was mitigated by the fall in the exports. There were higher imports and lower exports in the economy especially in case of food grains (Brown, 2017). Moreover, there was also lower construction of dwellings in the economy that also affected the gross domestic product of the country.
The United States economy was severely hit by the depression of the 2009. However, during the period of 2015 to 2017 the rate of growth of the gross domestic product steadily grew to 2.3 percent. The economy was able to recover a lot from the recession. The main reason for this recovery was the increase in the consumer expenditure (Murdock, 2018). The proper functioning of the stock market was the primary reason for this increase in the consumption as the wealth of the consumers increased significantly. However, in the fourth quarter there was a decrease in the rate of the growth of the gross domestic product. The imposition of the immigration laws by the newly elected president also affected the gross domestic product of the country (Treyz & Evangelakis, 2018). Many foreign workers were forced to leave the country, which affected the productivity along with the GDP of the economy. Another important factor is that there exists trade deficit in the United States economy. The trade deficit that exists is not really because of the subsidies to the exporters or barriers to the importers but it because that the expenditure of the American citizens is more than their production. The demands that are made by the consumers are far more than what is produced by the local American industries. Therefore, America has to import more of the commodities. Hence, a deficit in the trade is created. Thus, this trade deficit is also an important factor for the reduction in growth of the GDP in the later phase of 2017 (Bergsten & Gagnon, 2017).
The scenario of Australia can be depicted using an AD-AS model. The diagrammatical explanation is provided below and the explanation is given respectively.
The aggregate demand curve (AD) shifted from AD to AD1 because of increase in the consumer spending. However, because of the fall in exports there was asset back experienced by the economy bringing down the AD curve from AD1 to ad thus, reducing the level of output and consequently the price level in the period of 2017.
A similar type of movement can be observed for the United States economy. The analysis is done below. The aggregate demand curve increased from the depression that was created in the period of 2009. The increase in the wealth of the consumers that indirectly influenced increased spending of the consumers. However, this increase was reduced following a trade deficit and also the strict immigration laws that were imposed by the newly elected president of the US.
It can be stated from above discussion that falling rate of export has affected economic growth of Australia adversely. This situation can be worse in future due to the protectionism policy of US president. However, according to this proposed trade policy, US will exempt Australia from imposition of tariff on aluminum and steel import to maintain a free-trade agreement between them. However, the long-term consequence can be different. Economists have predicted that protectionism policy can create a trade war between US and China along with other countries on which US has imposed this policy. As a result, economic growth of China and other countries will fall in future (Kyophilavong, Ogawa, Kim & Nouansavanh, 2018). Hence, this trade policy can adversely affect global economic condition due to decreasing volume of international trade. Consequently, this phenomenon can adversely affect international business of Australia in future and this in turn can reduce economic growth of this country towards a negative direction. Moreover, the Australian government and other economists also predict that US can impose tariff on agricultural and mining products of Australia during long time (Shahbaz, Ferrer, Shahzad & Haouas, 2018). However, some other economists suggest that this protectionism policy will not hamper economic growth of this country. In this context, some literatures contrast this argument that protectionism policy of US can negatively influence economic growth of Australia during long term.
The failure of free trade agreements of Australia with other countries may loss significant amount of Australian occupations along with a reduction in domestic income of Australian citizen. However, this could not be the actual situation of Australian in long-run. At present, service sector including education, telecommunication and tourism is expanding rapidly across the country and consequently it is contributing a large share of income to the country’s national income. Hence, this sector is dominating exports and manufacturing sectors of Australia. The most important criteria of service sector are that other government of other countries cannot impose a tariff or trade restriction on it. Thus, even the global economy experiences a sudden effect of protectionism on international trade; this could not affect the Australian economy adversely. In this context, other economists have also argued that trade cannot influence socio-economic condition of Australia by large extend and for this the impact of inequality may not be raised.
Figure 8 has represented the statistical representation of various sectors considering their share in Australia’s national income in 2015-2016 (Data.worldbank.org, 2018). From this figure, it can be seen that service sector alone has accounted for approximately 60 percent to the national income of Australia and most of the people have got job under this sector. This implies that around 40 percent of total labor force have got job in service sector during 2015-2016 (Lowe, 2018). Economists have expected that this service will grow drastically in future and this in turn can help Australia to experience robust growth in its economy. In this context, one can argued that like other economic sectors, government of other countries can impose tariff on the exports of services (Kirikkaleli, Sokri, Candemir & Ertugrul, 2018). However, it needs to mention that unlike other services, government in international market does not restrict imports of services by imposing tariff or any other trade barrier.
Thus, according to some economists, it could be stated that if Australia can structure its economic condition correctly then any strict protectionism policy of other country can in turn help it to experience positive environment for exporters and households (Sigler, Searle & Martinus, 2018). Thus, the above argument has stated that protectionism is actually better for Australia’s economy, as it can influence service sector of Australia positively to export tourism, education and telecommunication services across the world.
Australia is an open economy, conducting international trade across the world. Hence, the global economy can influence the country’s economic condition significantly. For instance, change in demand for Australia’s goods and services in other countries can change the terms of trade of Australia (Qi & Zhang, 2018). However, increasing protectionism within international economy has threatened economic wellbeing as well as future prosperity of Australia (Zuo & Huang, 2018). Since the last few decades, lower barriers in international trade and investment have influenced Australia to increase its economic condition significantly.
However, present trend of protectionism of G-20 countries, after the affect of global financial crisis, has increased and this in turn indicates that the practice of tariff imposition making trade barriers can accelerate in coming years (Fratzscher, Lo Duca & Straub, 2018). The present president of US has adopted this policy to empower internal economy of America. This increasing trend of protectionism has forced Australia to rethink about its trade related activities (Evenett, 2012). Hence, the Australian government has analyzed some potential impacts on Australian economy due to this trade policy along with the changes in Australia’s policy settings. For knowing the impact, the impact, the government has highlighted on some specific scenarios, which are,
This increasing trade protection in global economy can reduce standard of living of Australia’s common people due to fall in per capita income. According to the statistical analysis of Australian government, increase in global protection could lead almost 80 percent household of this country to experience poor economic condition (Findlay & Garnaut, 2017).
Thus, to save economic interest, the government of Australia could prefer liberalization. During the trend of global protection, Australia can also develop its own barriers regarding foreign investment and international trade barriers (Beeson & Wilson, 2015). However, the government does not want any trade war between Australia and other countries, as this can reduce economic activity of this country through adversely affecting employment and wages (Stojek & Tir, 2015). This in turn can force other Australians to experience advance economic condition. Thus, instead of adopting such trade barriers, the country can follow trade liberalization under free market system.
The global economy, on the other side, has significantly influenced economic condition of the US from different aspects. As, US has strong trade relationship with other countries, economic disturbance or instability of any one can adversely affect US companies that have business overseas over there. As a result, these companies may incur losses and consequently, they start to reduce the number of employment for saving the total costs of business (Arkolakis, Ramondo, Rodríguez-Clare & Yeaple, 2018). Moreover, stock market can be affected negatively as well due to falling prices of those companies’ shares. This consequence can influence stock market of America in future, as investors can predict that US economy could decline further in coming years. To manage this situation, the central bank of this country could take decision for keeping the interest rate at a lower level (Draper, 2017). However, the opposite situation could also occur when due to higher economic growth, American companies could hire more workers due to its increasing demand in these countries. Consequently, the central bank of this country can increase its interest rates.
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