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Another factor holding back recovery has been
weak
growth in spending on goods and services by both state and local governments, and more recently by the federal government.
Also overlooked have been the immediate challenges of low growth,
weak
investment, and high unemployment.
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.
As long as the yen remains weak, this investment strategy will be a money machine.
That skepticism reflects a variety of recent news indicating
weak
output in parts of the Chinese economy – for example, headlines about reduced industrial production, declines in manufacturing exports, and shutdowns in particular industries.
You can’t fight the diversion of small amounts of money by
weak
and poor countries while ignoring the massive diversion of public resources into private hands of the sort that marked, say, Russia under Boris Yeltsin.
A
weak
euro may be a blessing in disguise.
A
weak
Europe is an unmitigated curse.
Although the original rationale was to buy the crop in years of excess supply and sell in years of excess demand, thereby stabilizing prices, in practice the price paid to cocoa and coffee farmers, who were politically weak, was always below the world price in the early decades of independence.
All of this is true, but, given the possibility of a major overhaul of US corporate taxation, which President Barack Obama has proposed, we should revisit the conventional wisdom concerning the supposedly
weak
connection between corporate taxation and the financial crisis.
Wealth effects that benefit a small but extremely affluent slice of the US population have done little to provide meaningful relief for most American families, who remain squeezed by lingering balance-sheet problems,
weak
labor markets, and anemic income growth.
The Dollar Joins the Currency WarsNEW YORK – In a world of
weak
domestic demand in many advanced economies and emerging markets, policymakers have been tempted to boost economic growth and employment by going for export led-growth.
This requires a
weak
currency and conventional and unconventional monetary policies to bring about the required depreciation.
Moreover, strong domestic demand has failed to materialize; consumption growth was
weak
in the first quarter, and capital spending and residential investment were even weaker.
But countries in southern Europe, especially Spain, need the support of a
weak
currency to rebalance externally and return to current-account surpluses.
In effect, the European Union and the ECB are now being forced to return with overly generous support to the
weak
countries – including buying up all their debt, if necessary.
In the United States, the latest economic data – including a
weak
labor market – confirm that growth is anemic, with output in the second half of 2012 unlikely to be significantly stronger than the 1.6% annual gain recorded in January-June.
So the recent slowdown of growth in emerging markets is not just cyclical, owing to
weak
growth or outright recession in advanced economies; it is also structural.
Ineffective governments with
weak
leadership are at the root of the problem.
Had she been otherwise, she would have been castigated as a weak, indecisive leader.
However, they were individually
weak
and unaware of each other's efforts.
This episode showed that the renminbi is under significant depreciation pressure, which is likely to intensify as the PBOC, amid
weak
GDP growth, loosens monetary policy (particularly as the US Federal Reserve is gradually tightening its monetary policy).
Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, democracy is not new to this 60-year-old state, but ethnic cleavages,
weak
institutions, and religious extremism in the North are perennially destabilizing.
Of course, even in the face of
weak
and declining economic performance, there may be an upper limit to the support that populist parties can muster – a level that falls short of a governing mandate.
And the reforms that have been implemented, in order to ease entry into work, are not sufficient in the context of
weak
overall growth.
In the meantime, the
weak
euro may help to spur growth.
Indeed, some observers fear instability caused by a
weak
, rather than a rising, China.
What explains
weak
economic performances by Asia’s strongmen?
An excess of poorly equipped health facilities is not only ineffective; it can actually make matters worse, owing to factors like poor sanitation and
weak
emergency referral systems.
If anything, the first-round results revealed the power of the non-Islamist revolutionary bloc, as well as Egyptians’ willingness to punish Islamists for their
weak
job performance in the parliament.
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