The impending global slowdown has intensified protectionist pressures.

And now the darlings of the world economy, emerging markets, have proved unable to reverse their own slowdowns.

Previously, the government blamed the country s economic problems on the global slowdown.

But the global economy is slowing down, and financial markets went into a tailspin during the summer.

While a global recession will be averted, a severe growth slowdown will not.

CAMBRIDGE The global economy is a runaway train that is slowing, but not quickly enough.

But the government continues to miss its fiscal targets, more because of the global slowdown than through any fault of its own.

Maintaining growth in the face of a global slowdown is a daunting task, and it requires rethinking the future of factory Asia.

The UN report observes that national economic policies and existing multilateral settings are not designed to mitigate effectively the risk of a global slowdown or to address global imbalances.

Investments in energy efficiency and low carbon technologies could also pull the global economy out of its economic slowdown over the next couple of years.

The poor and even the middle classes are seeing their incomes squeezed as the global economy enters a slowdown.

Containing China s Slowdown

Given the high degree of trade and financial globalization that now characterizes the world economy, there is no doubt that the slowdown in the advanced economies, which account for two thirds of global GDP, will undermine emerging country growth.

But the global slowdown, which takes the fangs out of the strike threat, will keep private sector workers in line no matter how much their leaders may rant and rave.

The global slowdown already evident in second quarter data for 2010 will accelerate in the second half of the year. Fiscal stimulus will disappear as austerity programs take hold in most countries.

In Europe and Japan, for example, monetary and fiscal policies have been tightening in response to domestic concerns, further slowing the world economy.

And, in our globally integrated world, the slowdown in Europe will exacerbate the slowdown in the US, and vice versa.

Indeed, if policymakers continue to sit on their hands, it is not hard to imagine a sharp global slowdown or even a devastating financial crisis.

The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.

After all, advanced countries account for about two thirds of global GDP, so slow growth in these countries will inevitably impede global growth and truncate the growth potential of much of the developing world.

Banks with substantial overhanging debt reduced lending, and, despite the massive intervention of governments and central banks, the crisis dragged down the global economy.

The fall in China s trade surplus since late 2008 is attributable mainly to the global slowdown and the stimulus package introduced by the Chinese government, rather than to changes in the RMB s exchange rate.

But it is not just the slowdown that has the skeptics worked up.

On the pause, the IPCC warned that there was still too little data to decide the cause of the slight slowdown in the upward march of global temperatures in the past 10 to 15 years.

An economic slowdown will exacerbate all our financial problems.

NEW HAVEN China s economy is slowing.

In China, the economic slowdown underway is unmistakable.

Since eurozone countries trade extensively with each other and the rest of the world, their slowdowns have contributed significantly to a decrease in global trade, in turn undermining global growth.

Indeed, I (and others) have argued that growing inequality is one of the reasons for the economic slowdown, and is partly a consequence of the global economy s deep, ongoing structural changes.

The current global slowdown is not on a par with what occurred in the late 1990 s or the more wrenching shocks of 3 4 years ago at least not yet.

It is subject to what Milton Friedman called long and variable lags.

Within China, the current slowdown is mostly homemade.

SHANGHAI Everyone is talking about China s economic slowdown.

The slowdown would be one tenth the size of the one the US is now enduring, and it would be largely confined to the construction sector.

The second source is private investment. The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.

China does not want its large current account surplus to cause the currency to overshoot on the upside, and it may now want to slow the renminbi s appreciation because of concern about the global economic slowdown.

On the demand side, the ongoing economic slowdown in China is starting to affect companies orders and revenues, adding to the challenges stemming from the persistently sluggish US economy.

Population growth has been slowing since the late 1960 s.

Libya s new leaders suffer from something worse than foot dragging.

Even with sticky wages and prices in Europe, the global slowdown will reduce energy, commodity, and food prices on world markets, all of which are important factors behind currently elevated European inflation levels.

In many countries, this is leading to a new round of austerity policies that will almost surely lead to weaker national and global economies and a marked slowdown in the pace of recovery.

Once we saw our exaggerated hopes for our investments failing, we began to consider our other sources of income and wealth, only to confront the worldwide economic slowdown that began in 2001.

The initial American financial crisis barely touched Russia, but the global economic slowdown brought about a decline in oil and other commodity prices by more than one third since July, which was a big blow.

The financial crisis is over, but the age of general economic slowdown is only just beginning.

Many other central banks are nervously watching the situation, well aware that they may soon find themselves in the same position as the global economy continues to soften and default rates on all manner of debt continue to rise.