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Lack of confidence in Russian policymaking is the main reason for capital flight, low domestic asset prices, declining investment, and an economic slowdown that the Crimea crisis will almost certainly cause to accelerate.
From this perspective, a declining US is doing everything that it can to thwart China’s rise.
Similarly, mismatch problems hindered the transfer of human resources from declining to expanding sectors.
It was also the argument William Jennings Bryan made during his 1896 presidential campaign, when he promised easier money to his core constituency: Midwestern farmers who had been hit hard by high interest rates and declining commodity prices.
This deepened the recession in 2000 and 2001 and led to a rising budget deficit because of declining tax revenues.
The influence of the United States in the region is declining, even as Russia becomes more revanchist.
Instead, Americans have been bombarded for decades with reports about wage stagnation, declining household income, and growing inequality – all while hearing about the $3 trillion price tag for the war in Iraq.
Indeed, just as its leaders failed to prepare for the fall of communism, the softening of the Russian economy shows that they are poorly equipped for the coming decades, which will be characterized by depleted resources, a declining population, and shrinking territory.
How to Fight Secular StagnationMILAN – Much of the world, especially the advanced economies, has been mired in a pattern of slow and declining GDP growth in recent years, causing many to wonder whether this is becoming a semi-permanent condition – so-called “secular stagnation.”
With future demand far from guaranteed, private investment has been declining in many countries, including, most recently, China.
According to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), aging populations and declining fertility rates in many parts of the world could dampen global growth considerably over the next 50 years.
Whereas, according to Japan’s central bank, Japanese labor productivity grew by more than 10% annually, on average, from 1960 to 1973, Chinese productivity has been declining steadily in recent years, from 11.8% in 2001-2008 to 8.8% in 2008-2012, and to 7.4% in 2011-2012.
The proportion of China’s merchandise trade settled in renminbi has been declining since mid-2015.
Aid to agriculture, a declining sector, consumes over 40% of spending and little is spent on the future (R&D) or on fields in which the EU must assume new responsibilities, such as internal and external security.
With the exceptions of the US and Germany, the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers has been declining in all Western countries in the last 17 years.
One potential explanation for this “new normal” that has gotten a lot of attention is declining productivity growth.
The complementarity of the Chinese and US economies is changing rapidly, but it is not declining in significance.
But this dominance is waning, as evidenced by its declining use as an official reserve currency, as well as for invoicing goods and services, denominating international claims, and anchoring exchange rates.
Unfortunately, productivity growth is declining across Europe, from around 3.5% annually in the 1970’s to barely 1% in the 2000’s.
Oil and commodity prices are low or declining.
Declining stock markets and low interest rates, have left private pensions around the world more vulnerable than was expected.
But it is a mistake to dismiss America's declining attractiveness so lightly.
The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia’s budget, and lack of investment in the country’s energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.
Another name for this approach is “transfer union,” which implies relentless economic austerity and declining living standards, because strong countries – first and foremost, Germany – are determined to limit their liability for bailing out deficit countries by making all transfers conditional on tough budget retrenchment.
If pay differentials have narrowed because of an increase in the relative supply of skilled workers, we can be hopeful that declining inequality in Latin America will not stand in the way of faster growth (and may even be an early indicator of it).
While equity and credit markets did rebound from their May-June dislocation, higher interest rates have hit the housing market quite hard, reflected in a sharp fall in the mortgage-refinance index, lower home affordability, and declining purchases.
But if high energy prices lead to declining exports, how is it that Germany, which boasts some of the world’s most ambitious climate policies, has doubled its exports since 2000?
During the last 20 years, economic growth has been based on rising asset prices and declining borrowing costs for consumers and companies.
Poverty has been drastically reduced, and income inequality is declining, as the middle class swells.
First, Brazil should adopt a medium-term fiscal framework that targets a gradually declining path for public debt, including a commitment to adjusting the target for the primary budget surplus accordingly.
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