Georgia’s job additions in the third quarter nearly equaled the total job additions in the first half of 2018, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. “In the first six months of 2018, the Peach State saw job gains of 35,600, just slightly […]
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Forecast: Domestic-Demand Sectors Will Drive Georgia Job Growth
Georgia’s job creation in the first six months of 2018 primarily arose from domestically driven sectors, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. The state created 36,300 jobs in the first half of the year, lower than the last half of 2017 and […]
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Georgia Predicted to Add Jobs, Personal Income Growth Anticipated for 2018
The continuing stock market bull run, corporate tax law changes, and other national and international factors will continue to support growth in metro Atlanta and Georgia’s large corporate activities sector, according to the latest report from the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. The forecast, released Feb. 28, […]
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Economic Forecast: Georgia’s Job Growth Expected to Moderate
By Rajeev Dhawan, Zwerner Chair of Economic Forecasting and director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business A strong dollar, trading partner growth woes and factors beyond American borders will continue to have a moderating impact on Georgia’s manufacturing and corporate sector gains. In the first half […]
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GSU economist predicts Fed won’t hike rates; local job gains remain muted
The head of Georgia State University’s Economic Forecasting Center has discounted the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at meetings next week.
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GSU economic forecaster predicts December rate hike, the Fed telegraphs the same
Rajeev Dhawan had the good fortune Wednesday to see a prediction he made in the morning be proven true that afternoon, when the Federal Reserve telegraphed that a rate hike is likely in December.
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GSU’s top economist predicts Fed to raise interest rates in autumn
Georgia State University chief economist Rajeev Dhawan predicted today the Federal Reserve will wait until autumn to begin raising interest rates, and even then will do so gingerly.
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GSU’s Rajeev Dhawan: Some economic indicators in current climate are “a mystery”
Some economic indicators just don’t make sense and that adds to the uncertainty of forecasting this phase of the economy, a leading Atlanta economist said Thursday.
Rajeev Dhawan, of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University, wondered, for example, how the construction industry could have added jobs in the first three months of the year, when the region was paralyzed by two ice storms.
“Construction was so strong in February; that is a mystery to me,” Dhawan said, before concluding that he is “gingerly betting on growth” in the regional and state economy.
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GSU report blunt on economy: “Odds are against 2014 being breakout year”
Everyone is looking for a breakout year for the economy. So much so that Georgia State University went ahead and said it probably won’t be so.
“Forecaster says odds are against 2014 being a breakout year for the economy,” is the headline that GSU put on its statement about the latest economic forecast by Rajeev Dhawan, of the school’s Economic Forecasting Center.
On Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department revised downward its estimate of quarterly growth at the end of 2013. The growth rate was dropped by 25 percent from initial estimates, from 3.2 percent growth to 2.4 percent.
