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A new study by Drew Altman, a respected health-care expert and President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, concludes that slower growth in real GDP, along with a lower inflation rate, accounts for more than three-quarters of the slowdown in health-care spending in the US after 2001.
Many policymakers and economists have observed that the recovery from the 2007-2008 financial crisis has been much slower than most recoveries of the post-war era, which needed only a little more than a year, on average, to restore output and employment to their previous levels.
When the crisis erupted, many hoped for a V-shaped recovery, notwithstanding a substantial body of research showing that recoveries from recessions caused by a financial crisis tend to be weaker and slower than recoveries from “normal” recessions.
The long-term unemployed will be much slower to be hired as the economy recovers than those who have been out of work for a much shorter period of time.
And both Xi and Li have indicated the government’s willingness to tolerate slower GDP growth in the short term for the sake of building a stronger, more sustainable economy.
Reinhart and Rogoff’s research broadly shows that GDP growth is slower at high levels of public debt.
The second future could hardly be more different: an Asia of increased tensions, rising military budgets, and slower economic growth.
Although Europe is unlikely to become poorer as a consequence of this demographic shift, it may experience a prolonged period of slower growth.
History shows that slower economic growth can make societies less generous, less tolerant, and less inclusive.
Exceptionally high public and private debts constrain a country’s options and are indisputably associated with slower growth, which in turn makes it difficult to escape a debt trap.
Perhaps the real pragmatism on display in the case of North Korea is a reluctance to rein in the business community at a time of slower growth and internal fixation.
But awareness that principles of evidence-based medicine should also guide health policy has been slower to take root.
Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world’s major central banks pursued another round of unconventional monetary easing: lower policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative easing (QE), and credit easing.
Likewise, many emerging-market central banks reacted to slower growth and lower inflation by cutting policy rates as well.
This means that the Chinese economy can achieve its all-important labor-absorption objectives – employment, urbanization, and poverty reduction – with much slower GDP growth than in the past.
His answer: “the relatively inflexible and, hence, more costly labor markets of these economies appears to be a significant part of the explanation… Europe has participated in the wave of invention and innovation, but appears to have been slower to exploit it”.
For my part, I predict that the global recovery will continue, but at a slightly slower growth rate of around 3.5%.
Latin America, where the Fund's doctrines have been taken most seriously, has suffered far slower growth as a result.
As with the EU-15, income convergence for the regions again turns out to be slower than convergence between countries.
The service sector, by contrast, experienced much slower labor-productivity growth (about 5% annually over the same period), meaning that it could be far more effective in generating employment growth.
Admittedly, the problem is worse in the government sector, where productivity growth is much slower even than in other service industries.
Unless they want to settle for slower growth, lagging labor absorption, and heightened risk of social instability, they must move aggressively to shift focus to the region’s own 3.5 billion consumers.
Innovation would suffer, resulting in higher costs, slower adoption, and inferior products.
Moreover, now that knowhow is becoming increasingly collective, not individual, diffusion is becoming even slower.
Credible measures that deliver and anchor savings in the medium term will help create space to accommodate growth today – by allowing a slower pace of consolidation.
Most dangerous of all, a struggling China could be tempted to turn to foreign adventurism to placate a public frustrated by slower economic growth and an absence of political freedom.
Rather, it must embark on a broader and deeper process of reform and renewal; and it must be willing to swallow the bitter pill of slower short-term growth in the interest of long-term goals.
Economic efficiency, investment, and employment would take a significant hit, while slower growth would be accompanied by higher prices, including for basic food items.
The consequence will almost surely be a slower recovery and an even longer delay before unemployment falls to acceptable levels.
Wouldn’t it be better to accept more adjustment now in the form of slower post-crisis growth than to set ourselves up for an even bigger crash?
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