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What has changed is the pressure of globalization, which is pushing the world’s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world.
Germany faces the prospect of a fiscal crisis as its population ages and its workforce shrinks.
According to current projections, Africa’s working-age population will grow substantially over the next century, while that of the rest of the world shrinks.
While America increases its population somewhat, due to normal reproductive rates and large immigration flows, Europe's share of the world's population is approaching a mere 4% and seems doomed to growing older as it shrinks even more.
Add to that our ability to analyze data more quickly, and to make more precise decisions about dosing, and the clinical trial timeframe shrinks considerably.
When an economy shrinks, government debt grows automatically, because its revenues decline and its expenses rise.
As China’s current-account surplus shrinks, Germany’s is climbing to record levels (see chart).
In Japan, for example, human-capital development is crucial to support growth as the population ages and shrinks.
One thinks of a new International, not of communism, but of vulgarity and bling, in which the political landscape shrinks to the dimensions of a television stage.
As the population ages and shrinks, more people will retire and start selling those government bonds that they are now lapping up.
These jobs will have to fulfill demand coming from outside the US, because as a falling dollar and possibly a domestic recession shrinks the gap between American demand and American production, there must be a countervailing boost to demand relative to production outside the US.
The same is likely to happen over the next few years as the US reduces its fiscal deficit and thereby shrinks its current-account deficit while China reduces its national saving and thereby shrinks its current-account surplus.
If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting.
In fact, we may have entered a period of fundamental change that could weaken growth everywhere, as the “old” shrinks before the “new” can occupy sufficient space.
Second, the productivity gap between the traditional and modern parts of the economy shrinks, and dualism gradually diminishes.
As the scope of trade liberalization shrinks, so do the benefits – more than proportionally.
Migrants fill critical skill gaps, perform jobs that others cannot or will not do, and replace a country’s workforce as it grows older or shrinks.
The effects of population aging will become even more obvious and widespread in the decades ahead, as domestic labor supply in rich countries shrinks even further.
China, for example, is facing a similar demographic challenge, as its labor force shrinks and the number of retirees rises rapidly.
It also shrinks overall demand, which is fine when the economy is overheated, but devastating when the economy is depressed and a liquidity trap (Exhibit B: the eurozone again) prevents monetary policy from doing the heavy lifting.
As US trade shrinks, there will be also fewer American competitors and less US competition.
While this will eventually turn around as the inventory of unsold homes shrinks, the recovery will be slow.
His power base shrinks by the day, and his strangling of independent information makes him increasingly ill-informed.
If the trade deficit shrinks because consumption rises and investment falls, the lower level of investment would cause the growth rate to decline, further decreasing the long-run level of real income.
Similarly, there is evidence that the prefrontal cortex - a key structure in emotional regulation as well as in decision-making and working memory - shrinks in major depression.
As the labor force shrinks and the burden of supporting the elderly grows, the economy is losing vitality.
China currently saves and invests half of its GDP, but, as its workforce shrinks in the coming years, its investment rate is likely to fall sharply.
As global GDP shrinks – the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank forecast about a 5% contraction in 2020 – poverty and hunger are rising sharply.
As climate change shrinks the total amount of arable land, conflict over what remains is intensifying in Latin America and around the world.
Instead, seats are allocated to member states according to the principle of so-called degressive proportionality: the number of voters per MEP shrinks in the smaller member states and grows in the larger ones.
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