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As it happens, Germany’s aging population and declining workforce will create labor shortages in the years ahead.
While economic growth benefited from the dramatic growth in oil and gas prices during the last decade, other competitive industries have yet to emerge, and the country now faces the prospect of declining energy prices.
If Russia’s power resources seem to be declining, Brazil’s appear to be more impressive, given it has a territory nearly three times the size of India’s, a 90% literacy rate, and triple the per capita income of India (and nearly twice that of China).
In fact, willingness to support the market after a sudden drop may be declining.
The OECD Employment Outlook shows an increase in low-paying jobs, sluggish real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth, and declining employment benefits across advanced economies between 2007 and 2017.
These flows reflect the growing shortage of skilled workers and declining populations (particularly in Europe) that are beginning to bedevil the developed world.
Even in Germany, often regarded as the strongest manufacturing economy in the developed world, manufacturing employment peaked around 1970, at close to 40%, and has been steadily declining ever since.
In view of its status as the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, it is surprising to discover that manufacturing’s share of employment is not only low, but seems to have been declining for some time.
Meanwhile, with investment in Gazprom’s core activity – production – steadily declining, a crisis is looming, one that requires the stewardship and steady hand of the EU.
Brent Neiman and Loukas Karabarbounis of the University of Chicago, for example, argue that labor’s share of GDP has been declining globally since the 1970’s.
Of course, if the international economic environment had been more favourable, and if there were not so much legitimate concern about declining purchasing power, the French might have shown greater indulgence towards their young president.
While he has seemingly lost touch with the French people, he is deeply aware of and wounded by his declining popularity, and no one should underestimate his ability to reinvent himself with a new government after the municipal elections and greater distance from his immediate entourage.
To cite one dramatic example, declining economic indicators caused the implied market pricing of an interest-rate hike ahead of the Bank of England’s policy meeting this month to plummet from over 90%, or a near-certainty, to 20% in just a few weeks.
According to many close observers, America’s attractiveness is declining in the region where the allure, or “soft power,” of others has increased.
The Chinese stock market had fallen sharply, declining some 40% from its recent high.
And, again, when the price of energy stops declining, the inflation rate will rise close to the core rate of 1.8%.
More important, Russia’s state-capitalist model has led to weak competition and declining incentives for private investment and entrepreneurship.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s declining cohesion is undermining its moral authority on the world stage.
With prices for oil, coal, and gas declining, and the cost of new discoveries rising, much fossil-fuel exploration is commercially unviable.
Two generations came to think of declining oil prices as normal, which accounts for the current sense of entitlement, the outrage at rising prices, and the search for villains: politicians, oil-producing countries, and oil companies are all targets of scorn in public-opinion surveys.
Declining dependence on external sources, properly pursued, is an important development.
A second flaw is that the plan’s GNP projections ignore the endogenous feedback effects that declining economic activity will have on fiscal revenues.
And yet the plan assumes that the migration flows will taper off, with the population declining by only 0.2% per year over the 2017-2026 period.
Indeed, the painful adjustments that southern European countries (and Ireland) have endured have led to substantially smaller external deficits and declining unit labor costs.
These companies are “Europeanizing” fast, and the relative weight of their home base is declining even faster.
In Europe, the number of nuclear plants is declining, as old plants are decommissioned and public opinion in even traditionally pro-nuclear countries like France begins to shift: almost two-thirds of the French now believe that nuclear power stands in the way of an increase in renewable energy.
In China, for example, sulphur dioxide emissions peaked in 2006 and have been declining since.
Globally, inequality has been declining, because many more people in the developing world have emerged from poverty.
At present, almost any standard measure of the concentration of global economic power would show a declining trend.
As a result, the traditional power of states and leaders is declining; in today’s global economy, innovators, not politicians, wield the most influence.
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