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Mexico’s Second RevolutionMEXICO CITY – Mexico, a stagnant and violence-plagued country in recent years, finally began to overcome its malaise in 2013, thanks to an activist president and a coalition of political parties determined to move the country forward.
The ECB is about to discover the truth of this as it starts on its own €1 trillion program of monetary expansion in an effort to stimulate the stagnant eurozone economy.
Tourism has been stagnant for decades, even as travelers have flocked to other Caribbean destinations.
The economy is stagnant, unemployment is high, and resources are scarce.
Europe’s stagnant growth in the second quarter has been explained away as an aberration reflecting the confluence of weather effects and sanctions imposed on Russia.
It must also contend with significant fiscal drag, ongoing deleveraging in the household sector (amid weak job creation, stagnant incomes, and persistent downward pressure on real estate and financial wealth), rising inequality, and political gridlock.
In America, at least, 2006 is likely to be another year in which stagnant real wages freeze, or even erode, the living standards of those in the middle.
But if they believe that, say, the Chinese are becoming wealthier, while their own real (inflation-adjusted) wages remain largely stagnant, they will not accept globalization.
Confronted with domestic economic collapse and a stagnant European environment, firms in Greece, Spain, and Portugal have turned to overseas markets and significantly increased their countries’ shares of eurozone exports to the rest of the world.
Their more affluent peers hire women like them to do the dirty work, or else they have had to deal with stagnant minimum-wage pay in the US labor market’s “pink-collar” or service-industry ghetto.
The options are higher investment levels financed by domestic savings, productivity growth, and increased competitiveness, or stagnant real incomes as rebalancing occurs through the exchange-rate mechanism (or a large dose of domestic deflation in the debt-distressed eurozone countries, since they do not control their own exchange rates).
Stagnant productivity in the services sector has hampered overall productivity growth, while the skills mismatch has worsened, with the education system failing to prepare students for a rapidly evolving labor market.
What followed was a “lost decade” of economic depression, stagnant growth, and currency, debt, and banking crises, as Latin American countries’ output contracted or collapsed.
Optimizing the EurozoneTOKYO – The eurozone is facing a bleak economic outlook, with growth remaining stagnant and the threat of deflation looming large.
Prolonged slump imposes not only mass unemployment, but stagnant wages, increased poverty, and rising inequality.
As the IADB has pointed out in several earlier reports, productivity has been stagnant in most of Latin America for a half-century or more.
If the government continues to prop up SOEs, especially “zombie” firms, the concentration of a large number of workers in low-productivity, stagnant SOEs will continue to undermine productivity growth.
Integrating the MaghrebRABAT – Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution” has thrown a spotlight on the consequences of stagnant economies and endemic youth unemployment for the region’s authoritarian Arab governments.
Stagnant growth or shrinking output in many emerging economies has serious consequences.
Yet “responsible” politicians everywhere warn citizens about a “new normal” of stagnant growth.
A stagnant economy and lack of opportunity are undoubtedly problems, but so are low voting rates, civic apathy, widespread disregard for ethical standards, and indifference to art, music, literature, and ideas.
Moreover, Israelis and people close to Hezbollah in Lebanon are talking about “another round,” while many pundits in the Middle East believe that a limited war could unblock a stagnant political situation.
Learning Economic DynamismWhy are some of the world's most advanced economies--France, Germany, Italy, and Japan--suffering stagnant growth and high unemployment?
As a result, growth and employment in the tradable sector have gone separate ways, with healthy growth and stagnant employment.
The share of manufacturing in low-income Sub-Saharan countries is broadly stagnant – and in some cases declining.
In real terms, wages no longer rose (indeed, the average real wage has been stagnant for 25 years in the US), and a growing share of manpower (currently around 15%) was without steady employment.
The other major economies, by contrast, are stagnant, slowing, or both.
But states such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh could well remain stagnant, falling ever deeper into relative deprivation.
Afflicted by historically high unemployment, massive under-employment, and relatively stagnant real wages, while burdened with underwater mortgages, excessive debt, and subpar saving, US consumers are stretched as never before.
The text introduced by the European Liberal Democrats, with the support of virtually all political groups in the European Parliament, is revolutionary, not only because it goes against conventional thinking, but also because it raises the issue above the stagnant reality of the “war on drugs.”
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