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A sluggish economy depresses tax revenues and increases social expenditures, leading to high public deficits.
Productivity gains have been sluggish for nearly 15 years, and the country’s export basket is the same as it was in the 1980’s.
All of this implies a discipline on costs in a sluggish economy and a potential accelerant in an overheated one.
CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades.
The connection between R&D and growth is too obvious to doubt that Europe's sluggish economies are a direct result of European backwardness at innovation - and that this in turn may reflect the absence of critical military spending to drive investments in research and development.
Moreover, its economic performance has been relatively sluggish, with a growth rate of just 2.3% last year.
This year, however, output is expected to rise by a relatively sluggish 5.9%.
The OECD Employment Outlook shows an increase in low-paying jobs, sluggish real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth, and declining employment benefits across advanced economies between 2007 and 2017.
That is why the completion of the ECB’s comprehensive assessment of banks’ balance sheets and the start of Europe-wide banking supervision will help revitalize sluggish lending in the euro area.
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.
As a result, economic performance has become sluggish as competitiveness declines and unemployment, especially among young people, remains stubbornly high.
This--the effects of government policies on incentives--rather than basic cultural differences or weak financial institutions, is at the root of the sluggish growth seen in some advanced economies.
Germany’s post-1949 Federal Republic was accustomed to being regarded as Europe’s great economic success story, but it never really recovered from the post-unification recession of the early 1990’s, with growth sluggish to non-existent.
In fact, although GDP growth remains sluggish and unemployment is still well above the target rate, the US Federal Reserve may soon terminate its purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, effectively admitting that QE has failed and may now be counterproductive.
It has one of the largest public debt/GDP ratios among OECD countries, and its low rates of investment and capital formation, together with sluggish GDP growth, have made it less attractive to foreign investment.
Add to that sluggish productivity growth, weak demand, and rapid population aging, and Japan’s situation was dire.
Even if that is true, proponents might argue, investment in green jobs is nonetheless a good way to stimulate a sluggish economy.
With India’s sluggish economic performance having rightly dominated the campaign, the question of what foreign policy the new government should pursue remains unanswered.
This partly explains why, during the 1985-2015 period, wages exhibited sluggish growth and retirees faced declining interest rates on their savings.
The distortions and distributional issues are set to become more pressing as the size and impact of the major emerging economies increases, owing to their return to rapid growth, and as the advanced countries experience an extended period of sluggish performance.
Rather than recovering strongly, sluggish Western growth is periodically flirting with recession at a time of high unemployment and multiplying debt concerns, particularly in Europe.
A sluggish economy and rising inflation are also testing economic stability.
But, by early 2016, prices had plummeted to around $30 per barrel, owing to a combination of sluggish demand, alternative supply (particularly shale oil and gas from the United States), and a new OPEC production paradigm under which the cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, withdrew from acting as a “swing producer.”
With the American consumer likely to remain on ice, the same 30% must also continue to shoulder the burden of a sluggish economic recovery.
The “new normal” that has emerged from the global financial crisis, characterized by sluggish GDP growth and diminished import demand in the West, makes reform even more urgent.
Given the movements in the euro’s exchange rate in previous months and sluggish growth in the euro area, we expected that inflation rates would decline, but only to levels close to 2%.
Otherwise, the wrong policies – and, with them, anemic GDP growth and sluggish job creation – will continue to prevail.
The combination of loose fiscal policy and tight monetary policy will mean high interest rates, sluggish investment, and slow growth.
After all, a currency can appreciate while an economy is sluggish, or depreciate despite robust growth.
So, not surprisingly, they have provoked excitement in some circles that the US may finally be poised to leave behind the depressing trio of unusually sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and high and growing inequality.
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