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The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades.
The fear in some circles in India remains that Singh’s government has run out of ideas when it comes to dealing with Pakistan – or at least that it has no good alternatives to a counterproductive military attack on the sources of terrorism or a stagnant silence.
Stagnant middle-class incomes imply weak aggregate demand, which in turn means slack labor markets and stagnant wages for most workers.
Two competitiveness gurus, Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin of Harvard Business School, recently warned that stagnant middle-class incomes undermine US companies in several ways.
Higher energy costs (owing to increases in both excise taxes and electricity rates), credit bottlenecks, specialization in stagnant export markets, and generalized policy uncertainty all seem to have played a role.
At the macro level, aggregate US productivity has increased by more than 250% since the early 1970s, while hourly wages have remained stagnant.
Yet workers’ share of the pie is falling, thanks to high unemployment, shortened working hours, and stagnant wages.
The rise of protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment in Britain, America, and Europe is widely believed to reflect stagnant incomes, widening inequality, structural unemployment, and even excessive monetary easing.
For example, rising inequality is less likely to be politically and socially disruptive in a high-growth environment (think a 5-7% annual rate) than in a low- or no-growth environment, where the incomes and opportunities of a subset of the population are either stagnant or declining.
With an unemployment rate of 8.5%, a labor-force participation rate of only 64%, and stagnant real wages, labor income has fallen to an historic low of 44% of national income.
Trump bemoans the “trade balance,” which measures trade in goods, without recognizing services, and has decried the closure of factories even when output has been stagnant or falling.
But, with Germany adamant about inflation – its prices have been stagnant – the adjustment could be accomplished only through wrenching deflation elsewhere.
But gold is stagnant, while capital is productive.
One is through the continuation of market reforms and the strengthening of democratic institutions; the other is through pursuit of the stagnant authoritarian power model and a strengthening of state control over a monopolized economy.
Furthermore, populations in the eurozone’s stagnant economies are increasingly demanding that Germany change its policies, increasing wages and implementing measures aimed at boosting consumption and discouraging savings.
In the face of a stagnant economy and an integrated global economy, Japan is under increasing pressure to modify its regulatory framework and promote competition.
The EU's problems are stagnant output, high structural unemployment, weak productivity growth, the wasteful and unfair Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and the forthcoming structural adjustments from the expansion of the EU itself.
A weak, economically stagnant, and politically insecure France poses an acute danger to the entire European project, because a France that remains in that state will inevitably succumb to the type of anti-European nationalism that Le Pen represents.
Closed political systems and stagnant economies in the Muslim world, they contend, are symptoms, not causes.
In countries coming out of war or other conflicts, efforts at inclusion are futile in stagnant economies.
But, in blaming leaders who have seized on popular anger, many overlook the power of that anger itself, which is aimed at elites whose wealth has skyrocketed in the last 30 years, while that of the middle and working classes has remained stagnant.
Plenty of reason, therefore, to be optimistic: say good-bye to global crisis, forget the risk of a stagnant Europe.
We must not forget that before the dawn of the Enlightenment, with its embrace of science and freedom, incomes and living standards were stagnant for centuries.
The developing world was growing nicely, while the advanced countries were virtually stagnant.
Whereas some German companies persuaded workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
Stagnant economic growth and high debt burdens in Europe and Japan have destroyed politicians’ will to raise taxes or borrow more to create space for fiscal expansion.
Japan, which faces stagnant wages, despite apparent labor shortages, may stand to benefit the most from this approach.
I believe that both retired persons and workers in these countries, and those in Eastern and Central Europe, would welcome privatization if they know how successful the transformation has been in Argentina, a nation with more difficult economic problems than even the most stagnant European economy.
Yet, despite all this, employment remained stagnant: net job creation in the United States continues to stall.
The logic of stagnant employment is not that adding jobs to the American economy is impossible, but that demand growth is insufficient to create more jobs than are lost.
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