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True, over the last 25 years, US per capita growth has been faster; but Japan’s economy is not disfigured by the massive increase in inequality that has left many American workers facing stagnant real wages throughout that period.
Of course, it is not easy to legislate financial reform in a stagnant global economy, for fear of impeding credit and turning a sluggish recovery into a full-blown recession.
The economically stagnant advanced countries are currently competing to restore growth, and securing talent from abroad is crucial.
What is certain, though, is that the longer Algeria remains politically polarized and economically stagnant, the greater the risk of rekindling the Algerian spring – and fueling a very hot summer.
Society nowadays is different than in the 1890s; so too, the causes of a stagnant stock of social capital.
During the bubble years before the 2007 crisis, prices and wages increased sharply in the eurozone periphery, relative to Germany, which was plagued by high unemployment and stagnant wages.
This dynamic could be especially important in Europe, where employment prospects differ radically across countries (and across regions within countries), and many feel trapped in stagnant local economies.
At a time of substantial economic challenges – Italy’s output has been stagnant for a decade, and its public finances remain precarious – the populist Five Star Movement, which has pledged to hold a referendum on continued euro membership, may well tempt voters.
And yet, its economy is essentially stagnant, owing in part to its excessive dependence on hydrocarbons.
If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe’s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.
After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5% in 2006.
Hizb al ghad recently produced a 48-page draft constitution, aimed at reviving Egypt’s stagnant political life.
But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.
Russia’s Neo-Feudal CapitalismWASHINGTON, DC – Vladimir Putin’s Russia is looking more and more like the sclerotic and stagnant Soviet Union of the Leonid Brezhnev era.
With emerging economies (including China) slowing, and with meaningful multilateral policy coordination remaining inadequate, protectionist pressures will mount as major trading powers compete for a stagnant pie.
Far too many US households made enormous bets on the property bubble, believing that their paper gains were permanent substitutes for stagnant labor income.
Likewise, US politicians’ ongoing efforts to ban currency manipulation in trade agreements may be an effort to scapegoat Asians for US workers’ stagnant real incomes.
Cutting growth rates by 40-70% is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs.
But if prices remain stagnant at current levels, Putin’s system is doomed to failure.
But even with those measures, up to a quarter of households in some countries experienced stagnant or lower disposable incomes between 2005 and 2014.
With global trade already significantly freed up – and with incomes already stagnant or falling – claims that new FTAs will boost incomes are dubious, at best.
On the contrary, its recovery coincided with the easing of the extreme austerity imposed in 2011-13, which has encouraged households to spend more, despite stagnant wages.
As of 2011, only Tanzania had achieved this goal, while 11 countries actually reduced their relative contributions, and the remaining nine signatories kept spending stagnant.
But while globalization has narrowed the gap between rich and poor countries, the gap between the rich and the poor within Western democracies has widened, owing to stagnant growth in median income.
Faced with stagnant wages and a declining quality of life, people feel frustrated – all the more so when their leaders keep telling them that things are getting better.
Persistently weak labor-productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline.
Though still in its infancy, the internet has shown that it has the power to shake China loose from its stagnant, isolated and repressive past.
Cameron and Osborne would then be able to boast that they have procured for the British public the best of both worlds: much faster economic growth than the stagnant eurozone members, together with all of the advantages of EU membership, including access to the single market and enhanced global influence.
Income inequality is on the rise, with the top 1% holding a vastly disproportionate amount of wealth, while middle- and lower-class incomes remain largely stagnant.
Portugal – where growth has been stagnant for a decade – is experiencing a slow-motion fiscal train wreck that will lead to public-sector insolvency.
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