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[Pen-l] How global is the global recession?



When I have a toothache, the whole world is in pain - or so it may seem. I was wondering: How global is the global recession?
I examined the following source, which has simple country-by-country information for the G20 countries, starting with a picture of Christine Kirchner of Argentina. For each country you find a yes-no coding for the question: Is this country in recession? - yes-no.
Source: CNN Explainer 01apr09 G20 recessions
RESULT:
Recession = YES: Australia, Canada, EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK, USA
Recession = NO: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea Turkey
Thus the global recession is not global in scope. However, global aggregate figures show a global recession because the indicators for the core countries (imperialist countries, as Samir Amin would say) dominate the aggregates.
Gernot



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