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But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.
Indeed, Italy’s banks epitomize all the problems that the financial crisis brought to the country, and on which the populists are capitalizing: a double-dip recession followed by sluggish GDP growth, high unemployment, especially among the young, and a collapse of domestic demand.
All have in common not only economic and policy weaknesses (twin fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing growth and rising inflation, sluggish structural reforms), but also presidential or parliamentary elections this year.
Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy’s sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.
Global Markets' Time FactorBARCELONA – In recent months, the dichotomy between booming financial markets, on the one hand, and sluggish economies and dysfunctional politics, on the other, has loomed large.
Although China remains far less open to foreign direct investment than most advanced economies, the OECD’s composite indicator shows that there has been continuous, albeit sluggish, improvement.
Given the headwinds of a sluggish world economy and the legacy of a long recession, however, reforms will be difficult to implement.
Indeed, there have been other periods in the long post-2008 recovery when growth returned, only to peter out quickly and become sluggish again.
Market access should be high on the agenda – especially for a sluggish US economy that needs new sources of growth, like exports.
Sluggish exports mean slow growth, which in turn places limits on social mobility and the expansion of an entrepreneurial middle class.
So, it stands to reason that the past decade of sluggish growth has contributed to the surge of a damaging form of populist nationalism that is taking hold in a growing number of countries.
As policy inertia prolongs sluggish growth and impairs job creation, it becomes even more difficult to abandon.
The 2008 global financial crisis left the US economy mired in a low-level equilibrium, characterized by sluggish job creation, persistently high long-term and youth unemployment, and growing inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity.
When it comes to Italy – with its combination of high debt and sluggish growth – Germany has no such confidence.
But, while risk aversion and volatility were falling and asset prices were rising, economic growth remained sluggish throughout the world.
Instead, Western central banks have had to confront market failures, fragmented financial systems, clogged monetary-policy transmission mechanisms, and sluggish growth in output and employment.
The world’s largest economy, the United States, expanded by 3.2 %, and growth also recovered in previously sluggish Japan and Europe.
An unpredictable regulatory environment, inadequate infrastructure, and a sluggish, monsoon-dependent agricultural sector are adding to the economy’s problems.
One reason that Indian prices are rising is that infrastructure growth remains sluggish.
In 2000-2010, after decades of sluggish growth, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa.
Until both are addressed properly, the West will remain burdened by sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and excessive income and wealth inequality.
Chronic sluggish growth is insufficient to create opportunities for the continent's masses of unemployed and underemployed young people.
Eurozone growth remains sluggish, at 0.7% over the last year, while unemployment, at 11.7%, is unacceptably high.
What if, as has happened in other financial crises, output growth remains sluggish for several years as the banks rebuild their balance sheets and de-leveraging takes place slowly?
An Economic Roadmap for IndiaNEW DELHI – India’s incoming prime minister, Narendra Modi, has promised to turn his country’s sluggish economy around.
At a time when sluggish global growth and falling commodity prices demand rapid productivity growth, Latin America’s economies cannot afford to be hobbled in this way.
It is only in more sluggish industrial economies, where wages are assumed to be inflexible, that policymakers advocate exchange-rate movements as a means to overcome wage stickiness.
Growth ultimately depends on supply-side factors – investment in and acquisition of new technologies – and the stock of technologies that can be adopted by poor countries does not disappear when advanced countries’ growth is sluggish.
If the EU’s entire development budget was similarly maximized, we could mobilize about €300 billion of capital, which, if spent on acquiring equipment, plant, and technology from Europe, could give an enormous boost to the current sluggish growth of the European economies.
Even without such complications, invigorating Europe’s increasingly sluggish economic recovery will be no easy feat.
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