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The Great Recession was the worst post-World War II contraction on record: [1]Real gross domestic product (GDP) began contracting in the third quarter of 2008, and by early 2009 was falling at an annualized pace not seen since the 1950s.
The recession data for the overall G20 zone (representing 85% of all GWP), depict that the Great Recession existed as a global recession throughout Q3 2008 until Q1 2009. Subsequent follow-up recessions in 2010–2013 were confined to Belize, El Salvador, Paraguay, Jamaica, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand and 24 out of 50 European countries ...
The Great Recession cost millions of jobs initially and high unemployment lingered for years after the official end of the recession in June 2009. One of the frightening aspects how deep the recession would go, which is one reason Congress passed and President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in January 2009.
New research shows surprising positive effects of the Great Recession. When people think of the Great Recession in 2008, they don’t tend to think of it as a particularly healthy time for humanity.
The Great Recession–aka The 2008 Financial Crisis. December 2007. June 2009. 1 year, 6 months. The Early ’80s Recession. ... Recessions impact everyone differently but generally, unemployment ...
The recession did not show up until 2009, but the recession already slowed down in 2008. The country had a positive growth of 1.5% in 2008 compared to a 3.3% in 2007, by 2009 the economy had shrunk by 6.5%, a percentage bigger than that of the 1994-1995 crisis [18] and the largest in almost eight decades and registering an inflation of 3.57% [19]
The downturn itself was 10 years long, but the impact it had on how people lived lingered for decades. Well after the Depression ended, What the Great Depression Did That This Recession Won't
Combined, the initiatives, coupled with actions taken in other countries, ended the worst of the Great Recession by mid-2009. Assessments of the crisis's impact in the U.S. vary, but suggest that some 8.7 million jobs were lost, causing unemployment to rise from 5 percent in 2007 to a high of 10 percent in October 2009.