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Greece’s economy has been shrinking for years.
The forces of globalization that were liberated by the fall of Communism have created a better world, with rapid economic convergence and shrinking inequality.
Some 60% of the world’s population lives in countries with stagnant or shrinking workforces.
For example, faced with a shrinking labor force, the government has ramped up investment in robotic automation and other productivity-enhancing technologies.
Investment in coal-fired electricity generation has been shrinking year on year since 2005.
Annual GDP growth is expected to remain above 4% in 2015, in a region where overall output is shrinking (by 0.3%, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest projections).
This raises the risk of a feedback loop between emerging-market currency depreciations and developed-market political responses, which include tariffs and other trade measures designed to protect a shrinking pie.
Today's information revolution and the type of globalization that accompanies it are transforming and shrinking the world.
Alarmingly high youth unemployment, shrinking social safety nets, and under-investment in infrastructure and human capital are burdening current generations and, in a growing number of cases, will adversely affect future generations as well.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is sticking with his old far-left extremism, except on immigration, where he is compromising one of Labour’s most sacred principles to curry favor with the shrinking electorate once claimed by Oswald Mosley and other far-right leaders, and now represented by the UK Independence Party.
Furthermore, the effect of internationally agreed regulatory reforms – most of which have yet to be implemented – will be to increase banks’ capital requirements while shrinking the scale of maturity transformation risks that they can carry on their balance sheets.
Rather than focusing on shrinking the size of existing fleets, European leaders should focus on getting more out of them.
With uncertainty plaguing Europe’s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.
In 2012, the insolvent Greek state borrowed €41 billion ($45 billion, or 22% of Greece’s shrinking national income) from European taxpayers to recapitalize the country’s insolvent commercial banks.
Both the CDU and the SPD face a shrinking electoral base and a falling supply of leadership cadres.
This would cause a shift from exports to production for the domestic market, thereby shrinking the trade surplus, in addition to curbing inflation.
But, given the scale and complexity of any remedy for Europe’s shrinking stock of skills and talent, the problem needs to be placed at the top of the policy agenda.
The reason is simple: Japan’s overall growth rates have been quite low, but growth was achieved despite a rapidly shrinking working-age population.
The difference between Japan and the US is instructive here: in terms of overall GDP growth, it was about one percentage point, but larger in terms of the annual WAP growth rates – more than 1.5 percentage points, given that the US working-age population grew by 0.8%, whereas Japan’s has been shrinking at about the same rate.
It may look counter-intuitive, but Europe's falling productivity and shrinking workforce signal even tougher times ahead and strengthen the case for an EU that is more efficient, as well as more democratically responsive.
This helped maintain Australia’s exports and kept the economy growing at around 2% per year, while Argentina’s economy has been shrinking at around 2% per year.
With a shrinking labor force, the standard estimate for Japan in 2012 – that is, before Abenomics – had output per employed worker growing by 3.08% year on year.
As developed countries were plunged into debt crises, with shrinking asset values and declining exchange rates, China’s international purchasing power grew.
With its shrinking and aging population, Germany needs more young, motivated people to keep its economy thriving – a need that refugees can fill.
With such anemic growth, how can Latin America expect to compete in world trade except through ever shrinking wages?
They live from paycheck to paycheck – often a shrinking paycheck, owing to the decline in hourly wages and hours worked.
Weak global growth is shrinking export markets, and many commodity prices are plunging.
The Fed is now in the process of shrinking its balance sheet, forcing the market to buy more bonds and therefore raising interest rates.
Just as Europe’s population is aging and will be shrinking, that of much of the developing world is young and growing.
China is therefore not only losing export-market share, but is doing so in a shrinking global market.
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