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As its population begins to shrink, it may even be worthwhile to shut down unviable cities and consolidate.
In Germany, the labor force is projected to
shrink
by six million over the next 15 years.
It was largely a fluke that this growth slowdown coincided with an asset-bubble collapse and a cyclical depression – one that caused Japanese output to
shrink
by about 10% in a few short years, followed by only a slow recovery to the new, lower potential growth rate.
A society’s wealth relative to its annual income will grow (or shrink) to a level equal to its net savings rate divided by its growth rate.
Indeed, the extravagance of these conferences seems to grow, rather than shrink, as their dismal results become more apparent.
As European populations age and shrink, the continent urgently needs immigration.
With limited, if any, hard-currency (US dollar or gold) reserves on hand, and little prospect for acquiring dollars through export earnings, European economies attempted to
shrink
their current-account deficits by compressing imports from other (mostly) European countries.
If the euro falls by 20-25%, bringing it close to parity with the dollar and weakening it to a similar extent against other currencies, the current-account deficits in Italy, Spain, and France would
shrink
and their economies would strengthen.
The policies that China will adopt as part of its new five-year plan will
shrink
its trade and current-account surpluses.
The alternative would be to embark on a sustained program of privatization to
shrink
the asset side of the state’s huge balance sheet.
China’s trade surplus might
shrink
by half of that amount (with cuts in trade surpluses also spread over other global regions), meaning a shift in Chinese GNP toward internal demand and away from net exports equal to between 5% and 10% of China’s GNP.
For the US to
shrink
its overall deficit, it must either reduce expenditures or increase savings.
But in the long run, it will likely reduce US employment,
shrink
North America’s share of the global auto market, and undermine America’s credibility on international trade issues – all while failing to reduce the US current-account deficit.
On this basis, Japan’s relative decline as a major economic power will continue, as its working-age population will continue to
shrink
by about 1% per year.
Portugal’s economy is set to
shrink
by more than 2%, and Greece’s output will fall by more than 4%.
The Greek government, for example, projected in 2000 that its fiscal deficit would
shrink
below 2% of GDP one year in the future and below 1% of GDP two years into the future, and that the fiscal balance would swing to surplus three years into the future.
In South Korea, the working-age population (15-64 years) will
shrink
by 10% from 2017 to 2030.
In real terms, therefore, average household incomes are likely to remain flat or even shrink, undermining the UK economy’s crucial consumer-spending engine.
This is not to say, of course, that we should
shrink
from the complexity of the task ahead, much less disregard the challenges that Brexit will bring.
Obviously, the fossil-fuel sector would
shrink
by 2020 as the energy system decarbonizes, with coal being partly displaced by lower-carbon fuels, mainly gas and renewables (carbon capture and storage and nuclear power cannot make much of a difference by 2020).
So, despite the rise in the household saving rate, unless federal government policies change to
shrink
America’s future budget deficits, the US will continue to be dependent on capital inflows from the rest of the world.
Fourth, Spain’s working-age population is set to
shrink
rapidly.
In fact, it looks certain to
shrink
this year by 0.2%.
Until recently, the OBR, broadly in line with the IMF, assumed a fiscal multiplier of 0.6: for every dollar cut from government spending, the economy would
shrink
by only 60 cents.
For consumers, the slice of the economic pie made available by their disposable incomes will
shrink
in real terms, leading to a fall in aggregate demand.
An excessive cut in public spending in the current circumstances can lead to a contraction in growth, which is already happening: the International Monetary Fund now projects that the eurozone will
shrink
by 0.5% in 2012.
In today’s advanced capitalist democracies, most citizens’ obliviousness to this history serves elite interests; otherwise, many more people, if not most, would be screaming bloody murder at increasingly successful efforts to
shrink
the public sector.
Of course the dollar would fall in no time, and substantially so - enough to
shrink
the deficits or bring in capital to take advantage of a now undervalued dollar.
And in the United States, immigration is the primary reason the workforce will continue to grow; if the US relied only on native-born workers, its labor force would
shrink.
But, starting in 2010, the imbalances returned, and, according to the International Monetary Fund’s recently released World Economic Outlook, they will not
shrink
between now and 2016.
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