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With official growth data usually aligning a little too closely with government targets to be credible, skeptics are turning to other, more tangible measures of economic conditions, pointing out that energy consumption, freight railway traffic, and output of industrial products like coal, steel, and cement has slowed sharply.
With domestic demand in these sectors now contracting sharply, the excess capacity in China’s steel and cement sectors – to cite just two examples – is fueling further deflationary pressure in global industrial markets.
If low long-term rates do not hold, long-term bond prices will drop sharply, leaving investors with a loss.
He was right to worry: a sharply expanding money supply may have unexpected and unquantifiable lagged effects.
By diverting US demand away from Chinese trade, the costs of imported goods would undoubtedly rise sharply.
Ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and with specific neighbors, such as the Philippines and Vietnam, have deteriorated sharply over disputed territorial claims with little economic significance.
In sharply unequal societies, elite universities receiving government funds can properly be expected to play a role in fostering social mobility.
The reason, of course, is climate change: unless fossil-fuel consumption is cut sharply – and phased out entirely by around 2070, in favor of zero-carbon energy such as solar power – the world will suffer unacceptable risks from human-induced global warming.
For example, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust sharply rejected divestment in 2013; the purpose of Harvard’s endowment, she argued, is to finance the university’s academic activities.
In 2004, for example, Chad’s 39.4% annual growth rate contrasted sharply with Zimbabwe’s -6.8% economic contraction.
During the last few months Russia’s international reserves have grown sharply, as one would expect of a country with a staggering trade surplus of $33 billion this year and which is likely to surge to over $40 billion this year.
Three of them (Brazil, Russia, and South Africa) will grow more slowly than the United States this year, with real (inflation-adjusted) GDP rising at less than 2.5%, while the economies of the other two (China and India) are slowing sharply.
In the US, as the financial sector soared, the manufacturing base contracted sharply.
At the same time, sharply elevated unemployment and subpar income growth have combined to tighten the noose on over-extended consumers.
Those were the days of sharply rising incomes, when Japanese households could increase their consumption rapidly while adding significant amounts to their savings.
While US imports are declining sharply, German imports are holding up –without any economic stimulus plan.
The number of people joining political parties has dropped sharply as ideological identification with either the left or the right has waned.
For starters, the electoral system is tipped sharply in Labour’s favor.
The biggest impact initially came from sharply rising oil prices and later from a rapidly weakening exchange rate, which led to a sharp rise in import prices.
August 2011 saw the largest monthly decrease in eurozone industrial production since September 2009, German exports fell sharply in October, and now-casting.com is predicting declines in eurozone GDP for late 2011 and early 2012.
As the ILO’s report shows, while wages have climbed gradually across almost the entire income distribution in most countries, they have risen sharply for the top 10%, and even more for the top 1% of employees.
To cut emissions sharply, the US will need to switch over this decade to a new fleet of automobiles, powered increasingly by electricity.
Their share of the vote in subsequent elections declined sharply.
Provoked, in part, by Arab neighbors’ hostility and Palestinian leaders’ intransigence, Israel began to turn sharply to the right.
For example, from work that Acemoglu has done with David Autor (also at MIT), we know that incomes for the top 10% moved up sharply during the 1980’s.
On NATO, France’s Middle East policy, or the constitution, Francois Mitterrand (the Socialist leader in the 1960’s) and the opposition sharply criticized de Gaulle’s go-it-alone ways for shattering the Alliance consensus.
And, of course, if the US were to raise its import tariffs sharply, a large part of the costs would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Orphans, whose number has increased sharply over the past quarter-century as a result of wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, are especially vulnerable to the cruelest type of physical and psychological violence.
With interest-rate spreads having compressed sharply, and with the threat of a meltdown averted, both domestic and foreign investors continue to return to peripheral economies, thereby alleviating severe credit rationing.
Indeed, EU trade power contrasts sharply with the perception of a weakened Europe.
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