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By contrast, consumer-led growth has been much slower to materialize.
Automation is set to sustain, and even accelerate, change on the demand side of labor markets, in areas ranging from manufacturing and logistics to medicine and law, while supply-side responses will be much slower.
The lesson is that whenever patents are extended to a new domain, we must be attentive to whether their positive incentive effects are outweighed by the main disadvantage of granting what is in essence a monopoly to the inventor: slower adoption by others.
In the eurozone, the hope is that calmer sovereign-debt markets, slower fiscal adjustment, and supportive monetary policy by the European Central Bank will help trigger a sustained recovery.
In the absence of a credible and readily available political alternative, deadlock will likely continue, with the pace of change slower than the population demands.
Even with more flexible economies, internal adjustment will always be slower than it would be if countries had their own exchange rate.
A situation in which the US muddles through with growth that is positive but slower than the growth rate of potential output--today's conditions--is unlikely to prompt drastic action from the Fed.
With rebalancing will come a decline in China’s surplus saving, much slower accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves, and a concomitant reduction in its seemingly voracious demand for dollar-denominated assets.
Some theoreticians argued that slower reforms would facilitate legal and institutional developments.
If the Global Vulnerability Monitor’s recommendation to cut back on fossil fuels were taken seriously, the result would be slower economic growth and continued reliance on dung, cardboard, and other low-grade fuels, thereby prolonging the suffering that results from indoor air pollution.
As a result, the cost of capital would be higher, and the pace of deployment and cost reduction far slower.
Subramanian’s own projected average per capita growth rate of 5.5% for the 2010-2030 period is already conservative, as it is more than 40% slower, overall, than growth over the previous 20 years.
SINGAPORE – Luxury-brand companies’ stock prices plunged in July, after their financial results disappointed investors, owing largely to slower sales in emerging markets, especially in China.
But a slowdown in China’s economic growth cannot really be blamed for slower sales of luxury goods or empty malls.
Moreover, two-thirds of the decline is attributable to slower investment rather than slower consumption.
In August 2011, it was banned from ships entering Antarctic waters, but Arctic states have been slower to move.
But the global development community has been slower to benefit – not least because too much development data are still being collected using cumbersome approaches that lag behind today’s technological capabilities.
Faster growth and slower policy tightening are great news for asset prices.
After all, the advanced countries’ slower growth is not the consequence of voluntary self-limitation, but of our superior standard of living – and of our incapacity to settle our own economic imbalances.
Indeed, a much smaller, slower, and more fragmented version of the Wikipedia community came into existence with the rise of universities in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe.
To be sure, China’s leaders have shown a commitment to ceding some control over the economy, signaling to businesses that they must adjust to a “new normal” of slower output gains as the country pursues structural reforms aimed at establishing a more sustainable growth model.
And emerging economies will be anchored by China’s slower but still-robust 7% annual growth.
The short answer is a “new normal,” with slower growth, a de-risked and more stable core financial system, and a set of additional challenges (energy, climate, and demographic imbalances, to name a few) with varying time horizons that will test our collective capacity to improve management and oversight of the global economy.
No doubt, then, that the world could compensate for slower growth in US by faster growth abroad, but there is also no doubt that such transitions are hard to manage.
Learning to live with slower growth will not be easy.
Historically, housing prices have shown a lot of momentum, and prices in all these cities are still going up at a brisk rate, though usually somewhat slower than a year or more ago.
The Productivity GapYear after year throughout the 1990's, Europe's productivity grew at a pace 18% slower than in the United States.
The rate of population growth will be much slower than over the past 50 years, and there is much room for reducing the vast quantities of food that are now wasted.
The United States has been slower to act, but has lately made some important policy moves.
Because its preferred approach of regime change has proven slower than expected, and because time plays into Kim’s hands, the Bush administration faces three other options in attempting to deal with North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
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