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To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.
Add to that the declining costs of alternative energy sources and relentless technological advancement, and the world’s carbon-reduction goals do not seem so distant – or costly.
Declining oil prices could provide a major boost, especially to oil-importing developed economies.
It is an attempt by a declining power to use its restrained capabilities in a more economical way.
Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by cutting their saving rate to just 3.7%.
Recent reports of declining consumer confidence reinforce the likelihood that spending will slow in the months ahead.
The advanced economies tried that, and the result has been rising political polarization, intensifying anti-establishment sentiment, declining policy coherence, and weakening social cohesion.
Still, if China can buck the trend of declining wage growth, other countries can, too.
Recent studies show that, though the cost of irrigation with desalinated water remains higher than with conventional fresh water, it is declining.
Labor mobility has been declining.
It will accentuate the burden imposed on the gradually declining number of people who remain in the labor force and have jobs.
The collapse of credit made matters worse; and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.
For starters, British policymakers should acknowledge that a declining pound is helpful, but not sufficient, for improving the UK’s external position and rebalancing its economy.
The end of this period has been called the dot-com boom or Internet boom, but most of the price growth preceded the tech-driven “new economy” narrative, and declining inflation helped throughout.
For example, Texas, like most southern US states, was once economically poor and declining.
The old, declining European order of the nineteenth century originally emerged out of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648).
Israel, for its part, must recommit itself to the late Yitzak Rabin’s doctrine that only a comprehensive regional peace agreement can prevent the Middle East from declining into nuclear chaos.
At a time when there are far fewer jobs than workers, declining faith in the competitive examination system as a fair means of evaluating students could undermine social peace.
In Africa, climate change may already be responsible for falling water levels in West African rivers; declining coral reefs in tropical waters; lower fruit production in the Sahel; fewer fish in the Great Lakes region; and the spread of malaria in the Kenyan uplands.
But further trade liberalization is bound to be of declining importance to economic growth.
The colonial powers that filled the vacuum left by the declining empire had their own militaries, and therefore did not need local forces to govern.
In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker presents data showing that human violence, while still very much with us today, has been gradually declining.
The alternatives seem to be a lengthy and difficult return to growth and employment, or declining enthusiasm for the common currency.
But barely a month later, the television news cameras are pointing elsewhere, and international leaders are switching off their phones, declining to hear the shrill cries coming out of Zimbabwe.
Declining competitiveness is best captured in a single indicator: unit labor costs, which measure the average cost of labor per unit of output.
The first – declining economic growth, to less than 1%, on average, across the region – has been discussed at length, with the prevailing explanation being that China’s slowing economic growth has suppressed commodity prices and, thus, Latin America’s export revenues.
Meanwhile, the political legitimacy of the Palestinian leadership has long been declining, and many Palestinians doubt that it can articulate a national strategy and deliver an agreement with Israel in any form.
The tradable side of advanced economies has not generated any real net increases in employment for at least two decades, while the jobs that it has created are concentrated in the upper-income and upper-education ranges, with employment declining in the middle and lower range of income and education.
New industries require innovative and creative human resources, and we will redirect our subsidies so that workers without meaningful employment in declining industries can move on and find rewarding work in rising sectors.
The alternative – to continue spending massively on defense rather than on global education – would condemn the US to the status of a declining imperial state tragically addicted to hundreds of overseas military bases, tens of billions of dollars in annual arms sales, and perpetual wars.
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