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1 year 2 months 2 years −25.4% −22.7% From the depression of 1920–1921 until the Great Depression, an era dubbed the Roaring Twenties, the economy was generally expanding. Industrial production declined in 1923–24, but on the whole this was a mild recession. [26] [34] [35] [36] 1926–1927 recession October 1926 – November 1927 1 year ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines a recession as a period of at least two years during which the cumulative output gap reaches at least 2% of GDP, and the output gap is at least 1% for at least one year. [23] Recession can be defined as decline of GDP per capita instead of decline of total GDP. [24]
The International Monetary Fund defines a global recession as "a decline in annual per‑capita real World GDP (purchasing power parity weighted), backed up by a decline or worsening for one or more of the seven other global macroeconomic indicators: Industrial production, trade, capital flows, oil consumption, unemployment rate, per‑capita ...
The following articles contain lists of recessions: List of recessions in the United Kingdom. List of recessions in the United States. Categories: Lists of history lists. Recessions. Economy-related lists.
Indian economic crash of 1865. Panic of 1866, was an international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London. Great depression of British agriculture (1873–1896) Long Depression (1873–1896) Panic of 1873, a US recession with bank failures, followed by a four-year depression. Depression of 1882 ...
The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. [1] The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map). [2][3] At the time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded that it was the most severe economic and financial meltdown since the ...
The 1973–1975 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s, putting an end to the overall post–World War II economic expansion. It differed from many previous recessions by involving stagflation , in which high unemployment and high inflation existed simultaneously.
Recessions. Many factors directly and indirectly serve as the causes of the Great Recession that started in 2008 with the US subprime mortgage crisis.The major causes of the initial subprime mortgage crisis and the following recession include lax lending standards contributing to the real-estate bubbles that have since burst; U.S. government housing policies; and limited regulation of non ...