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Unless emerging-market governments take advantage of the limited space provided by their foreign-exchange reserves and floating currencies to enact vital structural reforms, the onus of adjustment will fall on interest rates, compounding the effects of slowing growth and the risks associated with bad debt.
Complicating matters further, China’s monetary authorities are already struggling to maintain financial stability under conditions of slowing economic growth, a total debt-to-GDP ratio of around 250%, and monetary-policy normalization on the part of the US Federal Reserve.
However, with the German and US economies slowing precipitously, the ECB would have a perfect cover for its interest-rate moves.
The Economic Case Against Bush's Tax CutNEW YORK: Washington politicians are worried over signs that America’s great structural boom of the past five years is over: a poorer outlook for profits, increased corporate debts, and a related slowing of business investment in fixed capital, new customers and new employees.
The second battle involves long-run structural issues: slowing the growth of government spending, reforming taxes, and increasing labor-market flexibility.
The global economy currently is slowing; several European countries – and the eurozone as a whole – are in recession; central banks’ interest rates are exceptionally low, and unlikely to rise soon; and most advanced countries are cutting public spending.
But progress is now at risk of slowing, or even reversing, owing to a vicious circle of economic failure and violent disorder.
As the year passed, one could feel the pace of vital institutional reforms in the eurozone slowing.
China, once the world’s unstoppable growth engine, is slowing.
This would also allow for greater fiscal stimulus at a time when other components of aggregate demand are slowing.
How can China ensure stable and sustainable growth in the face of significant internal and external challenges, including slowing medium- and long-term growth, rising labor costs, and growing inflationary pressure?
Japan will likely experience a slowing in its traditionally high savings rate as its population ages.
Adopting the chained consumer-price index for federal benefit calculations would ensure that benefits more accurately represent inflation, while slowing the rate of benefit growth for individuals.
Such a reform could be implemented over several decades without slowing economic growth or reducing prosperity.
And yet, in what came to be known as the productivity paradox, national statistics showed that not only was productivity growth not accelerating; it was actually slowing down.
While fiscal revenues are on the rise, they account for only about 6% of China’s total assets – and their growth rate is slowing.
Population growth has been slowing since the late 1960’s.
For example, Chinese leaders may be tempted to act more assertively to placate public opinion amid a slowing economy, and to take advantage of opportunities created by a US that has retreated from regional trade accords.
Today, it could undertake similar swaps, but with countries facing large capital outflows, thereby slowing the dollar’s appreciation.
At a time when the world is concerned with both slowing economic growth and rising inequality, policies that can be simultaneously pro-growth and pro-equality merit close consideration.
That solution will involve slowing the growth of Social Security pension benefits for future middle- and upper-income retirees.
But slowing the growth of Social Security benefits and capping total tax expenditures would be a good framework for the coming reform.
This suggests that there is a window of slowing cell death that does not cause cancer and may promote longevity.
Soaring food prices before the global financial crisis provided a warning, as does the slowing rate of growth of agricultural productivity.
But since the 2008 crash, many rich countries have been locked into austerity; the Asian economies have been slowing; the BRICS’ progress has been stalling; and many African countries have fallen back into debt.
If red tape is slowing things down too much, the solution is to simplify the procedures, not to abolish competitive bidding.
All of this growth is great news for China; indeed, at a time of slowing performance in many traditional sectors, online retailing could be an economic lifesaver.
CAMBRIDGE – With economic growth slowing significantly in many major middle-income countries and asset prices falling sharply across the board, is the inevitable “echo crisis” in emerging markets already upon us?
In fact, this summer’s asset price correction reinforced a view many of us already had that the US economy was slowing, led by sagging productivity and a deteriorating housing market.
With private-sector demand still weak, austerity is slowing, not accelerating, recovery.
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