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But the incentive to invest in services would have to be boosted massively, given that the sector is not capital intensive, to offset lower investment in export industries.
Higher rates would have meant lower inflation, so that inflationary expectations would not be the issue they have become.
The center-left Democratic Party (PD), the supposed clear winner just ten days ago, won the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house), but is the election’s main loser.
And, while higher-income and wealthier households have a buffer of savings to smooth consumption and avoid having to increase savings, most lower-income households must save more, as banks and other lenders cut back on home-equity loans and lower limits on credit cards.
Moreover, income and wealth inequality is rising again: poorer households are at greater risk of unemployment, falling wages, or reductions in hours worked, all leading to lower labor income, whereas on Wall Street outrageous bonuses have returned with a vengeance.
That would mean lower imports, creating a potential problem for countries that depend for their employment on exporting to the US.
A new study by Drew Altman, a respected health-care expert and President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, concludes that slower growth in real GDP, along with a lower inflation rate, accounts for more than three-quarters of the slowdown in health-care spending in the US after 2001.
Altman conjectures that, overall, the growth in health-care spending between 2008 and 2012 was about one percentage point lower than predicted by deteriorating macroeconomic conditions alone.
Textiles and apparel came first, followed by luggage, dishes, toys, etc.Supply chains also dispersed geographically, with lower value-added components and processes allocated to low-income countries.
Helped by massive public investment in infrastructure and logistical capabilities, some of this work will move inland, where incomes are lower.
But today, with tax rates much lower, cuts of that size would result in huge increases in fiscal deficits.
Top Chinese officials have recently begun to call for the People’s Bank of China to cut interest rates and lower reserve requirements.
Consider, first, that the previous QE rounds came at times of much lower equity valuations and earnings.
Even during QE2, in the summer of 2010, the S&P 500, P/E ratios, and EPS were much lower than they are today.
So as negotiators – and a handful of government ministers – arrived in Durban, expectations could not have been lower.
To be sure, lower standards of living having always existed between Europe's east and west.
The gulf between GDP and domestic demand can be explained largely by a collapse in imports, which were 15% lower in the second quarter of 2015 than they were in the final quarter of 2007, owing to declining living standards, mass unemployment, and depressed investment.
Strikingly, industrial production is still lower than it was at the depth of the crisis in 2009.
Most of the jobs created during this period have been in low-paid services, especially tourism, while overall employment remains 14% lower than its pre-crisis peak – the worst performance of any eurozone country except Greece.
Nominal GDP is lower than it was seven years ago, meaning that debt is being serviced from a stagnant or declining income.
The railway minister (a portfolio that exists in few democracies nowadays) presents the “railway budget" to the lower house for its approval.
A relatively small change in the parameters of this program could lower its future costs, as was done in the 1980’s.
And lower investment would be matched by a decline in cumulative fossil-fuel revenues amounting to as much as $34 trillion more than under the IEA’s “new policies” scenario, owing not only to lower volumes of oil, gas, and coal consumed, but also to significantly lower prices.
Indeed, we enter 2016 with cheaper gasoline, which weakens the incentive to purchase fuel-efficient automobiles, and lower heating costs, which weakens the incentive to insulate homes.
The OECD’s latest forecast for eurozone GDP in 2012 is 2.3% lower than its projection in 2010.
But the evidence emerging from successive rounds of QE in the UK and the US suggests that while it did lower bond yields, the extra money was largely retained within the banking system, and never reached the real economy.
Every year of below-capacity growth means lower growth capacity in the future, owing to lost investment, erosion of worker skills and experience, and diminished risk-taking.
As a result of increasing supplies, US natural-gas prices have declined by two-thirds since 2008 and are likely to remain significantly lower than prices in the rest of the world at least through 2020.
Lower gas prices will boost manufacturing production, particularly in downstream industries like petrochemicals and primary metals that use natural gas as fuel and feedstock.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association has pledged to phase out child labor and put children back in school – female school enrollment is typically lower in areas of high garment-industry employment than in other areas – upholding a 2010 law prohibiting employment of children under 14.
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