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A related explanation emphasizes the phenomenon that economists call hysteresis: A persistent cyclical downturn or
weak
recovery (like the one we have experienced since 2008) can reduce potential growth for at least two reasons.
But if
weak
productivity growth persists – and with it subpar growth in wages and living standards – the recent populist backlash against free trade, globalization, migration, and market-oriented policies is likely to strengthen.
That case is strongest if the spending reductions are large and abrupt in a
weak
economy.
Most important, even though debt levels and growth remained negatively correlated, the evidence for a 90% threshold was revealed to be quite
weak.
Combined with a
weak
exchange rate, the cost for the DRC runs to more than $12 billion actual dollars.
The poor are squeezed by cuts in social programs and a
weak
job market.
There is also a different order of priorities between
weak
and strong states.
Following three years of
weak
economic performance, overall growth is expected to accelerate to 3.5% this year, from 2.9% in 2017.
In fact, in a context of
weak
global governance, regional associations – including security cooperation, shared rules, and collective endeavors – become even more important.
This is not an encouraging foundation for addressing the challenge of recession or
weak
growth in the eurozone’s core economies.
If today's stalemate drags on, the
weak
economy will threaten Bush's re-election bid in November 2004.
The government should take the
weak
ten-year projection as a warning and a reason to devote policies to reducing fiscal deficits and strengthening incentives for growth.
But economic problems such as
weak
growth or high unemployment are not caused by a lack of total demand.
Though second-quarter GDP growth was
weak
— the euro-zone average was only 0.3% year on year – third-quarter data are indicating a sustained economic pick-up in the second half of the year.
After all, for three decades prior to the crisis, developing countries were told to liberalize, and to pursue export-oriented policies, leaving them structurally dependent on advanced-country demand, which remains
weak.
If ISIS wants to plant seeds of division and chaos in the West – especially Europe, which ISIS considered to be the
weak
link – it has so far failed.
Though land reforms over the last three decades have recognized property rights for individuals and enterprises, rural land rights remain
weak
relative to legal conditions in urban areas.
The main factor behind Mexico’s anemic growth is chronically
weak
productivity increases.
It is widely assumed that the UK’s
weak
response to similar incidents, not least the 2006 murder of the Russian defector and former spy Alexander Litvinenko, has convinced Putin that he can get away with such provocations.
In its efforts to apply pressure on Europe, the Kremlin has identified Britain as a
weak
link.
In sixty years a
weak
and divided country, one torn apart by wars internal and external, is about to become the second most powerful economy in the world.
Indeed, last summer, when speculation that the Fed would soon begin to taper its purchases of long-term assets (so-called quantitative easing), financial-market pressures were strongest in markets suspected of having
weak
fundamentals.
The most common narrative we hear about Haiti is one of great need – the “poorest country in the Western hemisphere,” with
weak
infrastructure and health problems that include the region’s highest rates of infant, under-five, and maternal mortality.
Because Indonesia's government will likely be
weak
for years to come, Mrs Megawati should forge alliances with the many civil society groups that are emerging in Indonesia and which support a democratic regime.
But North Korea also knows that, without joint exercises, a military alliance becomes
weak
and hollow.
If the US suspends joint military exercises with South Korea, its willingness or ability to respond to North Korean aggression in the South may become similarly
weak.
If a trilateral Northeast Asian FTA can be concluded, the three countries would be able to generate more market demand domestically at a time of
weak
demand from the West, and would gain greater influence in the global political economy.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is less extreme, but its leadership is weak, doesn’t control Gaza, and is still full of hard-line elements.
And it does not account for Italy’s
weak
economic growth rate, which consistently falls short of the eurozone average in good times and bad.
They could issue a Financial Stability Report that bluntly flags
weak
policies and financial vulnerabilities.
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