But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.

But the weakness of manufacturing is a drag on India s overall economic performance and threatens the sustainability of its growth.

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.

The population of Galápagos is growing at a rate of approximately 6 per year, more than double population growth of mainland Ecuador.

The net result goes beyond the weak growth, worsening income inequality, high long term unemployment, and alarming youth joblessness of the here and now.

With global growth weakening, net exports are unlikely to improve robustly, even with a weaker dollar.

Growth collapsed in Africa in the late 1970 s because of the weakness of the former, and fizzled in Latin America after the first half of the 1990 s because of the weakness of the latter.

Prospects for these two sources of growth will not only influence the vigor, or lack thereof, of any recovery they could well be decisive in bringing about an important shift in the US growth model.

Mexico needs to grow at roughly twice the rate that it did under Fox (a meager 2 per year).

In the US, a subset of policymakers believes that weakening growth and high unemployment require a policy response.

Finally, as is true in many of the advanced countries, weak demand constrains Italy s short and medium term growth.

Weak global growth is shrinking export markets, and many commodity prices are plunging. The combination of tighter credit conditions in the advanced economies and dimmer economic prospects in low income countries is hitting investment flows.

Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top line revenues takes a toll on bottom line margins and profitability.

The UN s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007 cautions that a weaker housing market will undermine US growth.

In fact, the current wisdom has it that the reason why France recently grew twice as fast as Germany is that French consumers have stopped worrying about social reforms.

How large is the induced growth in GDP from higher imports? The retail price is often more than twice the wholesale price paid by the importer.

Despite weak economic growth in advanced economies and a slowdown in many emerging markets, oil is already at around 100 per barrel.

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There is a strong likelihood that weaker US growth and lower inflation will force it to slow the pace of its withdrawal of liquidity support.

The alternative explanation for the persistence of weak global growth has been best formulated by the Bank for International Settlements, an organization of central banks. The BIS maintains that excessively low interest rates are a big reason why growth is disappointing.

Weak external demand is partly responsible for the falloff in growth, but internal factors namely, slowing investment and stagnating consumption are also holding back economic expansion.

In fact, its weak domestic demand has dampened growth elsewhere. As a result, German banks and taxpayers are less likely to recover their bad loans to southern Europe.

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Asian economies deepening trade and financial integration has left them increasingly vulnerable to growth shocks from China, with exporters of commodities and capital goods especially vulnerable.

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Both will support the middle income transition by expanding the domestic market as a driver of growth, and will help sustain growth in the face of prospectively weaker global demand.

The weakening of the euro will help Europe s external balance, but the benefits will be more than offset by the damage to export and growth prospects in the US, China, and emerging Asia.

He consistently blamed France s poor export performance on the strong euro, favoring a politically subservient ECB whose mandate should include economic growth as well as price stability.

There has been strong emphasis in recent days on the fact that trade barriers in the developed world cost poor countries more than twice the amount of the official aid they receive.

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Low school enrolment rates.

Low levels of education.

Low use of health services.

Weak mobilization of internal resources.

She recognized the important role of trade for growth and poverty reduction in LDCs and noted the vulnerability of many of these countries as a result of their high economic concentration in primary commodities.

A study by UNCTAD revealed that landlocked developing countries spent twice as much on transport costs as an average developing country, and three times as much as an average developed country.

At present, expenditures by landlocked developing countries on transport and insurance services as a share of total export earnings are, on average, double that of developing countries overall, and triple that of the developed economies.

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