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First, the slowdown has ended and growth is picking up.
At the root of this turnaround is enormous credit growth, as the authorities, concerned that the earlier slowdown was excessive, encourage China’s banks to lend.
While no two financial crises are identical, all tend to share some telltale symptoms: a significant slowdown in economic growth and exports, the unwinding of asset-price booms, growing current-account and fiscal deficits, rising leverage, and a reduction or outright reversal in capital inflows.
China’s recent slowdown, by fueling turbulence in global capital markets and weakening commodity prices further, has exacerbated the downturn throughout the emerging world.
While the data were hardly devastating relative to a consensus forecast of 8.2%, many (including me) expected a second consecutive quarterly rebound from the slowdown that appeared to have ended in the third quarter of 2012.
Fears of a shadow-bank-induced credit bubble now top the worry list, reinforcing longstanding concerns that China may succumb to the dreaded “middle-income trap” – a sustained growth slowdown that has ensnared most high-growth emerging economies at the juncture that China has now reached.
Having grown at an average annual rate of just 1.6% since the early 1970's, annual US productivity growth in the non-farm business sector has accelerated to an average of 2.6% in the seven years since 1995, with no sign of a slowdown.
Given these developments, a few commentators have written recently about the possibility of a prolonged slowdown in industrialized countries.
With Sarkozy off his back, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet might feel freer to cut interest rates to counter the impending economic slowdown in Europe.
In a fast-changing geopolitical and economic environment – characterized by challenges like interest-rate rises spurred by high debt levels; competitive corporate-tax reductions; changing immigration patterns; and a possible slowdown in the pace of globalization – small countries must be able to identify and assess risks, and adjust their strategies accordingly.
The Future of China’s GrowthBEIJING – The slowdown of China’s economy has captured the headlines in recent weeks.
Closing Developing Countries’ Capital DrainNEW YORK – Developing countries are bracing for a major slowdown this year.
And what is important to bear in mind is that the slowdown in China and the deep recessions in the Russian Federation and Brazil only explain part of the broad falloff in growth.
Indeed, the UN report lists 29 economies that are likely to be badly affected by China’s slowdown.
Accordingly, even countries with sound balance sheets and manageable leverage have experienced a growth slowdown.
That is by far the most protracted period of weakness in real US consumer demand since the end of World War II – and a massive slowdown from the pre-crisis pace of 3.6% annual real consumption growth from 1996 to 2007.
The first economy to take off was Japan, which, despite a slowdown in recent decades and a relatively small population, remains the world’s third-largest economy.
China’s Dual-Track ChallengeHONG KONG – With China's economic slowdown more apparent than ever, its prospects of avoiding a hard landing are weakening.
It is possible that asset prices will come down gradually, implying a slowdown rather than a collapse of spending and economic activity.
Since the 2014 general election brought Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party to power, the government has reversed the slowdown.
With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina’s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly.
The country’s growth slowdown and mounting financial risks have spurred a growing wave of pessimism, with economists worldwide warning of an impending crash.
This decelerating monetary growth was accompanied by a slowdown in the pace of inflation.
All or any could intensify a slowdown that has started already.
This is a concern, because the global economy’s approaching slowdown comes at a time of heightened political fragility.
Rousseff’s popularity has plummeted in the wake of public protests over spending on the World Cup, together with a sharp economic slowdown.
But will this do enough to stem the slowdown in an economy that has become hooked on external demand in recent years?
In 2014, capital started to flow out of China and the currency started to depreciate, perhaps owing to a slowdown in the Chinese economy, relatively strong growth in the US, and a corresponding shift in their respective monetary policies.
Thus, advanced economies have a large stake in addressing the causes of the productivity slowdown before it jeopardizes social and political stability.
For all the handwringing over China’s so-called slowdown, it seems as if its leaders may have a more realistic and constructive assessment of the macroeconomic policy challenge than their counterparts in the more advanced economies.
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