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Without growth, tax revenues will remain stagnant, and the capacity to service debts will continue to erode.
Its Web site argues that “[w]ith stagnant wages, systemic unemployment, and public service cuts” people are being forced into debt in order to obtain the most basic necessities of life, leading them to “surrender [their] futures to the banks.”
Focusing on one (say, the competitiveness problem in the tradable sector) to the exclusion of the other (perhaps a serious non-tradable demand shortfall or stagnant absolute productivity) will not be enough.
With the economy nearly stagnant in 2011 and the first half of 2012, faster growth is a political necessity for her.
Whereas Europe’s birthrate is stagnant, the Arab population is set to double in the coming decades, and the population will rise in many Asian Muslim-majority countries.
A developed Africa can open up new export markets for the West’s saturated and stagnant economies, and help to revive global growth.
Latin America's stalled and stagnant economies, which embraced the Washington Consensus more than most, stand out as exhibit "A."
With uncertainty plaguing Europe’s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.
While staff sometimes pointed to booming credit, gaping current-account deficits, or stagnant productivity, they downplayed the implications.
As a result, the economy’s overall productivity has been stagnant or declining.
Not surprisingly, these economic elites barely grasp the extent to which this system has failed large swaths of the population in Europe and the United States, leaving most households’ real incomes stagnant and causing labor’s share of income to decline substantially.
The same story is true in poor countries around the world: telephone penetration remained stubbornly stagnant in developing nations until they allowed competitive entry-primarily in the form of mobile telephony-in the 1990's.
And productivity in the service sector – which is the least exposed to global competition – has been stagnant since the 1990s.
With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.
Employing workers in sectors where their productivity is stagnant would not be a recipe for social stability.
"Thatcherism" was not really much of an ideology; it was more a gut reaction to the stagnant 1970's, an attempt to loosen the bureaucratic straitjacket of the state and to reveal that not everything that arose from state benevolence was good.
Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.
Making matters worse, Italy’s economy has been stagnant for years.
In the US, manufacturing workers’ wages have long been stagnant, and job opportunities in the sector have fallen rapidly.
Achieving strong inclusive national-level growth to revive a declining middle class, kick-start stagnant incomes, and curtail high youth unemployment is now taking precedence.
Nominal GDP is lower than it was seven years ago, meaning that debt is being serviced from a stagnant or declining income.
The reforms helped to reduce the jobless rate, but at the cost of stagnant inflation-adjusted wages and widespread personal financial stress.
After years of stagnant growth and debilitating unemployment, all options, no matter how unconventional, should be on the table.
A technologically stagnant agricultural society is bound to be an extremely unequal one: by force and fraud, the upper class push the peasants’ standards of living down to subsistence and take the surplus as the rent on the land they control.
Yet its GDP growth is stagnant.
But at least the West’s working class had access to cheap loans and inflated house prices to offset the impact of stagnant wages and declining fiscal transfers.
A gap emerged between the economy’s productive base, which remained stagnant, and Greeks’ expectations (and demands), which were rising fast.
That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.
With a stagnant denominator, it is hard to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio: the legacy of the past continues to weigh excessively on the present.
The result is today’s stagnant economy, marked by anemic growth that threatens to become the new normal.
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