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Stagnant growth or shrinking output in many emerging economies has serious consequences.
However, his options are shrinking rapidly.
Not only will their societies be rapidly aging; diminishing income gaps between rich countries and emerging economies are likely to slow immigration flows, shrinking the workforce by 20% in the eurozone and 15% in the United States.
Even more worrisome are larger immutable realities – like a rapidly aging and shrinking population – that will limit Japan’s economic growth in the coming decades.
Wages in the small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that employ 88% of workers still lag behind those of major conglomerates, the chaebols; and the middle class is shrinking in terms of its share of earnings.
It is a rentier power living off its limited natural-resource assets – with a shrinking population, no less.
Many traditional industries, such as textiles and steel, are likely to face shrinking global markets and over-capacity, driven by demand shifts and environmental concerns.
Other imperatives include shrinking the budget deficit, removing internal barriers to trade, and encouraging private investment.
For me, despite its industrial decline, shrinking global influence, and increasingly inept football, something about Britain always remained best.
For a while now, the US Federal Reserve has been well ahead of other systemically important central banks in normalizing monetary policy – that is, raising interest rates, eliminating large-scale asset purchases, and starting the multi-year process of shrinking its balance sheet.
This, in turn, has led to shrinking client demand and various other operational challenges.
Cautious optimism seems justified if emerging markets can weather the impact of shrinking demand for their exports, and sustain their recent records of prudent macro-economic management.
To be sure, the US Federal Reserve has moved away from monetary expansion since late 2013, when it began progressively reducing and ultimately halting bond purchases and shrinking its balance sheet.
At the current moment, economic well-being is shrinking.
The final, technical reason why interest rates are not likely to rise excessively is that years of central-bank purchases and a shrinking US budget deficit have made US Treasuries scarce.
Finally, Russia has a staggering demographic problem, characterized by a shrinking population, life expectancy far below the advanced-country average, and a growing brain drain.
Europe’s international role is shrinking, with the old G-5 having evolved into the G-20.
Climate economists widely acknowledge that there are only four policy levers that can be used in an attempt to lower carbon emissions and rein in climate change: reducing the world’s population, shrinking the global economy, increasing the efficiency of energy consumption, and decreasing carbon intensity (meaning that we create less carbon for each unit of energy that we produce).
But the negative interest rates resulted in shrinking German pension funds, while the asset purchases magnified inequality in Germany.
For those in power, a big piece of a shrinking pie is preferable to no piece of a growing one, which is what most of the current elite would receive under a fair legal system with clear rules and predictable enforcement.
By some measures (given the shrinking share of Europe in world output), its global importance has declined.
The first baby boomers have reached retirement age, and the labor force will soon be shrinking in most parts of Europe.
And its effects are amplified in the periphery by an ongoing credit crunch, as undercapitalized banks deleverage by selling assets and shrinking their loan portfolios.
With fertility rates declining and people living longer, the workforce is shrinking and getting older at the same time.
Moreover, room for catch-up gains with the developed economies in terms of technology, production processes, and management practices is shrinking, undermining productivity growth further – and leaving it up to China to do some innovating of its own.
For Japan, the imperative is to continue to be an engine of development as it builds a post-industrial economy that, given its aging and shrinking population, is increasingly dependent on others.
The prospects for modernizing or even preserving the national health care system are shrinking with every year.
For example, low- and middle-class Austrians’ incomes have been slowly shrinking for ten years; overall economic growth is lower than the EU average; and unemployment is rising.
But politically it is a dwarf – and shrinking.
Savers, on the other hand, may be compelled to save more in the face of shrinking interest income.
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