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Final sales to households, businesses, and foreign buyers rose at only a 1.1% annual rate, even slower than earlier in the year.
Moreover, wage flexibility meant that substantially slower wage growth in the states that lost industries helped to attract and retain other industries.
But the response is slower elsewhere.
In emerging markets, average wage growth in 2017, at 4.3%, was faster than in the advanced G20 economies, but still slower than the previous year (4.9%).
Switzerland, with its generally slower pace and its thorough political debates before votes are held, may be the exception.
In the American zone the process was slower and controls were stricter than in the British zone, where local politicians were soon entrusted with power.
So here, too, the logic points to a vicious circle: Slower growth leads to artificial remedies and further erosion of long-term growth potential.
But, though many experts fear that protectionism is undermining globalization, threatening to impede global economic growth, slower growth in global trade may be inevitable, and trade liberalization is decreasingly important.
Property sales have fallen, particularly outside the largest cities, and slower construction growth has left heavy industry facing severe overcapacity.
Rising trade tensions are already increasing the chances of a synchronized global recession, with slower growth in the US, China, and Europe in 2019.
Without fundamental change, China faces slower economic growth, inadequate job creation and innovation, and popping bubbles.
But, because they now run current-account surpluses, they have fully adjusted and can resume growth, albeit naturally at a much slower pace than during the boom.
The foreclosure relief plan is off to an even slower start, and is likely to run into numerous problems concerning how to rework delinquent mortgages without inducing a lot more delinquencies.
The American economy will likely return to growth late this year and next, especially with all the monetary and fiscal stimulus (growth would have initially been slower and then much stronger without it), but it will still be an economy on a government lifeline.
Egypt’s public debt is around 80% of GDP, very close to the 90% level that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart identify as a harbinger of slower growth and heightened vulnerability to financial and fiscal crises.
For some, the problem is a savings glut associated with slower demographic growth, rising life expectancy, and static retirement thresholds – a combination that forces people to save more for their old age.
Growth therefore must rely on the much slower accumulation of economy-wide capabilities in the form of human capital and institutions.
America’s relatively high rate encourages US companies to locate their investment, production, and employment in foreign countries, and discourages foreign companies from locating in the US, which means slower growth, fewer jobs, smaller productivity gains, and lower real wages.
By contrast, real wages increased, albeit at a much slower pace than before the recession, for those in the top 30% of the wage distribution.
That, combined with slow progress on financial-sector reform, makes it likely that risk-aversion will prevail, which could slow, if not reverse, financial globalization, and probably lead to slower growth in many countries.
As a result, the recovery from the Great Recession was slower than it had to be, just as had been the case with the 1990-1991 recession.
The region’s main economies recorded slower GDP growth in 2013, and much the same is being forecast for 2014.
In fact, with Japan’s real annual GDP growth slipping to 0.6% since Shinzo Abe was elected Prime Minister in late 2012 – one-third slower than the sluggish 0.9% average annual rate over the preceding 22 lost years (1991 to 2012) – the so-called maximum stimulus of “Abenomics” has been an abject failure.
Likewise, slower growth, higher inflation, and less monetary-policy accommodation will temper investor sentiment as financial conditions tighten and volatility increases.
Yet for the first time in a decade, the biggest risks are now stagflationary (slower growth and higher inflation).
But the combination of crisis and austerity condemned China to several years of deflation and considerably slower growth.
The productivity record has generally been weak over the last few years, and this suggests that growth in the years ahead could be slower than previously expected.
First, the current recovery is much slower and shallower than previous ones, which means that jobs are not being created as fast and at sufficiently high numbers to keep up with labor market entrants.
Slower GDP growth undermines elite unity according to a different political dynamic.
The people who should be most concerned with financial deleveraging and slower growth are President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
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