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The issue of shrinking and closing spaces for civil society must be added to the agenda of national parliaments, multilateral organizations, and international negotiation processes.
For example, Japan’s working-age population has been shrinking since 1995.
Similarly, states where birth rates fell earlier, such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu, are already enjoying shrinking school-age populations, whereas school-age numbers in Bihar will still be rising until around 2025.
I have seen shrinking glaciers in Antarctica and the Andes.
But this is now changing, and France’s potential future growth is about half a percentage point higher than that of Germany, where the population is shrinking.
Now, as a result of the counter-revolution, the EU club is shrinking, rather than growing.
Facing the prospect of having to raise additional capital at a time when their shares are selling at a fraction of book value, banks have a powerful incentive to reduce their balance sheets by withdrawing credit lines and shrinking their loan portfolios.
The Euro in a Shrinking ZoneLONDON – The recent European Union summit was a disaster.
The periphery needs to recover competitiveness, and some have taken heart from the Mediterranean countries’ shrinking trade deficits – the structural trade imbalances within the eurozone are correcting themselves, they say.
Such industrial mismatches become larger during recessions, reflecting greater churn in the labor market as workers move between shrinking and expanding sectors; but they decline as the economy recovers.
Second, let us hope that the Fed, guided by the steady hand of its new chair, Jerome “Jay” Powell, will continue or even accelerate its monetary-policy normalization, both by raising its benchmark federal funds rate, and by shrinking its engorged balance sheet.
And its population is shrinking – not least because the average man in Russia dies at age 65, a full decade earlier than in other developed countries.
Worldwide, job growth in the renewables industry is booming, while employment in traditional power generation is shrinking (primarily owing to the closure of coal plants).
In short, no nation on this changing, shrinking planet can truly address its own problems in isolation.
But China’s current-account surplus has been shrinking faster than the International Monetary Fund and many forecasters had anticipated.
That’s why I and others who think about shrinking the deficit focus on changing tax rules to limit the special features known as “tax expenditures,” which represent government spending built into the tax code.
Nothing to start shrinking the deficit will happen before this year’s presidential election.
Without action, the economy faces the threat of declining consumption and even shrinking output.
In this age of austerity, characterized by shrinking defense budgets on both sides of the Atlantic, a “smart partnership” policy that is designed to allow individual countries or groups of countries to improve their interoperability with NATO is the obvious way forward.
Moreover, even if it never had a financial crisis, Japan would have been plagued by adverse demographics, as its population is both aging and shrinking.
Yet, far from taking any action against a country that he has long assailed as a trade cheater, Trump is helping make China great again, including by withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and shrinking US influence in the Asia-Pacific region.
If investors understand that online distribution is revolutionizing the retail sector, isolating the sector’s CEOs from financial markets would just push more resources into a deteriorating, shrinking business model.
Declining remittances from overseas workers, shrinking trade flows and investment could undermine new businesses, throw thousands out of work, and increase tensions and instability.
If the neo-liberal Washington Consensus has been forgotten, perhaps it wasn’t because its tenets were misguided, but because the world offered an opportunity to realize the most important of them without having to suffer the humiliation of a shrinking economy.
At that point, with US demand shrinking, the rest of the world would indeed feel the economic effects of a Romney presidency quite directly.
This forecast of excess demand is an important part of the Fed’s rationale for raising the policy rate and shrinking its balance sheet.
But that does not ameliorate the seemingly intractable underlying challenge: a shrinking pool of taxpayers to support a growing number of retirees.
In any case, the scope for tax increases is severely limited in an economy that is shrinking quickly.
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.
By contrast, China’s working-age population has been shrinking, by more than three million annually, since 2012 – a trend that will, with a 4-6-year lag, cause labor-supply growth to decline, and even turn negative.
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