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The shrinking of child care services is a case in point.
First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan’s population is aging and shrinking.
With a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, tax revenue will contract, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the fiscal position.
Like shrinking aggregate demand, the contraction of bank loans had a multiplier effect, with growing financial fragility inducing depositors and overseas financial institutions also to withdraw credits and deposits from Greek banks.
Here is a crisis in the making because giving the old nothing means a huge poverty problem, giving them something means huge tax burdens on a shrinking labor force.
Venezuela ’s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.
Instead of commanding much of northern Sri Lanka, they are now confined to a shrinking pocket, and are reduced to mindless military stunts such as the recent bombing by light aircraft of the tax administration building in the capital, Colombo.
Some of the recent rise, associated with the shrinking of glaciers, is not caused by human activities, since the glaciers have been shrinking for hundreds of years while human activities became significant only in the last century.
But everywhere, as the human population expands, the space we leave for wild animals is steadily shrinking.
Others believe that deficits will force major cuts in domestic government spending, thus shrinking the state, which is their heart's desire.
Perhaps US Vice President Joe Biden summed up Russia’s predicament best: “The reality is, the Russians are where they are, having a shrinking population base, a withering economy, and a banking structure that is unlikely to withstand the next 15 years.
Should you still have doubts that the planet is heating up, look at the shrinking mountain glaciers around the world, or the declining sea-ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, which in recent summers has been little more than half its size in the 1970’s.
But shrinking snow and ice cover is itself a result of warming, so reduced reflection of solar rays is not the primary cause of warming.
Making Sense of Pension ReformWARSAW – Pension reform has become one of the most troubling fiscal dilemmas facing developed countries, especially those with a shrinking workforce and an aging population.
Many Puerto Ricans, unable to find jobs on the island, have migrated to the mainland, with the population and labor force estimated to be shrinking at a rate of 1.5% this year.
With so many vivid images of a shrinking and damaged planet, is it really any wonder that human psychology is ripe for high commodity prices?
Disparate tax rules among different countries have resulted in close to a zero-sum game for national governments, which are forced to pursue beggar-thy-neighbor policies to secure a bigger slice of a shrinking pie.
The growing role of the government, and the shrinking role of the private sector, almost surely portends slower growth later this decade.
Not surprisingly, their trade deficits have been shrinking.
With inequality and unemployment higher, and incomes and domestic markets shrinking, everyone hopes to recover by exporting – an obviously impossible solution.
With no industrial good that still requires a large-scale labor force – and the communications and services industries unable to fill the gap – employment is shrinking and economic growth is stagnating.
The effects of a shrinking labor force will be compounded by rising educational attainment in developed countries, which will leave fewer people interested in taking on low-skilled service jobs or in working in the trades and construction.
Many refugees escaped into the mountains, where they are trapped in shrinking enclaves.
Even if individual countries are becoming more democratic, it seems, the sum of global democracy is shrinking thanks in no small part to globalization.
What is new – and distressing – is that developing economies’ low-productivity segments are not shrinking; on the contrary, in many cases, they are expanding.
Puerto Rico’s economy had been shrinking before the fiscal crisis, and the spending cuts and tax increases since it erupted have only made matters worse.
Today, Russia has a small – and shrinking – economy and a population in decline.
Social-democratic parties are shrinking, while right-wing demagogues promise to protect “Western values” from the Islamic hordes.
Since the 1970s, when neoliberalism began shrinking the realm of democratic decision-making and transferred all important political choices to financial institutions and unelected “independent” authorities (for example, central banks), people have rightly felt that voting is a mere ritualistic validation of decisions taken by an establishment beyond their control.
So shrinking export markets will slow down growth-promoting structural change at home.
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