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The country’s declining number of voters are lining up in favor of cheaper, imported food.
Despite decades of immense government support, Japan’s rural sector cannot even aspire to feed its declining population.
In the West, this interest derives in part from declining faith in traditional trade unionism; in the postcommunist East it was stimulated by the speedy collapse of state socialism.
But now, with Venezuelan crude below $30 dollars and the country cut off from international capital markets, imports are declining to a fraction of their 2012 level.
The net result of these economic and demographic shifts is that a growing share of national income is now being directed to provide health, pensions, and other forms of basic support, while a declining percentage of citizens in nearly every society is now working to support a growing number of fellow citizens.
Still, given a severe financial crisis, declining home prices, and a credit crunch, the US is facing its longest and deepest recession in decades, dashing any hope of a soft landing for the rest of the world.
Alarmingly, in some of the wealthy countries, where both screening and treatment should be readily available, vaccine coverage now appears to be declining, raising a real danger that socioeconomically disadvantaged girls there will face a similar fate.
But, as a result of human activities, planetary biodiversity is now declining faster than at any point in history.
World War I was the trigger that set off the reversal, with economic globalization declining while military globalization increased, as witnessed by two world wars and a global cold war.
Energy’s emergence as a focal point for European leaders makes sense, given that it lies at the confluence of the three existential threats facing the European Union: a revisionist Russia, the declining competitiveness of European businesses, and climate change.
But their challenge is made more difficult by nay-sayers who claim that fears about declining biodiversity are a tree-huggers' conspiracy to elevate Nature above people.
Without collective action, we face a bleak future of disappearing biodiversity and a steadily declining quality of life.
Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.
His government can claim to have reduced poverty from 35% to 22% of the population, and also to have maintained a trend towards lower inequality, with the Gini coefficient – a 0-1 scale of wealth concentration – declining from 0.583 in 2003 to 0.548 in 2008.
The housing price bubble eventually broke, and, with prices declining, some have discovered that their mortgages are larger than the value of their house.
Labor force growth has slowed sharply, owing to declining birth rates, with immigration failing to compensate even in pre-Trump America.
Labor-market liberalization, globalization, and unions’ declining influence have exacerbated these employment trends.
Perhaps an even more important factor in the weakness of these newly democratic governments is declining public identification with the state.
Flummoxed by the clobbering from all sides, pundits who could not get the Trump election right prophesied that declining sales, falling readership, and flagging credibility heralded the demise of the newspaper, as we have known it.
Millennials in the West, dismayed by the surge in “fake news,” are helping reverse declining circulations in major markets.
Spending on political advertising is skyrocketing, boosting profits at broadcast and cable news networks, which have been struggling with declining viewership and lackluster revenues.
More important, declining labor-force participation may indicate that more young people are staying in school, for example, or that more women from poor households are entering the middle class.
The prophecy of an Asian Century also ignores all of Asia’s disorderly and declining nations, such as Thailand and Japan, respectively.
Poverty is declining in other countries as well, including Nigeria (where 10% of the poorest live), China (home to 8%), and Bangladesh (6%).
There may yet be a soft landing, whether slow or fast: during the last major dollar cycle, between 1985 and 1987, the dollar fell by 40% without ever causing panic, major bankruptcies, or a demand by investors for a substantial dollar risk premium to compensate them for holding assets denominated in a declining currency.
These power shifts are the result less of Russia’s expansionist ambitions or China’s military and economic rise than of America’s declining international leadership.
Moreover, the prospect is not a distant one, but something knocking at the door: population (hence the number of taxpayers) is already declining, the social security accounts are already turning to deficits and 15 years hence the debt mountain will be crushing capital markets.
But with the SPD declining, Germany is moving from a de facto two-party system to a multiparty system in which no single party plays a dominant role.
Moreover, a declining share of the European food market and diminished investments in real estate undermine the capacity of agriculture and construction to absorb young workers.
Although the commercial costs of wind and solar are declining, these technologies still need large subsidies and usage mandates to account for less than 3% of global energy production.
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