The fertility rate is declining and contraceptive use is increasing.

Furthermore, the overall support cost reimbursement rate is declining for reasons mentioned earlier.

Germany, with its notoriously low inflation rate, may be among the first countries to experience declining prices.

Even more worrying, the rate of GDP growth has been declining almost from the start of the recovery.

The prices of US homes are also declining at an accelerating rate, in many areas by more than 10 per year.

Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by cutting their saving rate to just 3.7 .

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

Before it began rising last year, the US household saving rate had been declining for more than 20 years in response to the increasing level of household wealth.

Also driving China s high investment rate is the declining efficiency of investment capital, reflected in China s high incremental capital output ratio (annual investment divided by annual output growth).

Even an economy with an overall budget deficit will have a declining government debt GDP ratio if the growth rate of its nominal GDP exceeds that of its debt.

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Capital flight, interest rate spikes, declining private investment, and a collapse in the value of the dollar all of these are likely should financial markets lose confidence in a Fed chairman.

Labor force participation will be key to shaping this environment. As it stands, the low official unemployment rate can be explained partly by declining participation rates, especially among workers aged 25 54.

Secondly, declining funding worsened the progress.

Unfortunately, none of the net reduction in the US unemployment rate over the past year came from increases in the employment to population ratio all of it came from declining labor force participation.

But this time, even as the US Federal Reserve keeps hiking its short term lending rate to keep inflation in line, long term interest rates which are far more important have been magically declining.

5.16 In light of the declining moral standards evidenced by the high rate of gender specific violence and abuse of children, there is a general concern that both spiritual and civic education is missing.

That figure has been declining ever since.

The consumption of both alums is declining.

Meanwhile, the economic situation is declining steadily.

Maternal mortality, though declining, was still high.

Combined with declining predatory fish stocks, declining demand will have serious consequences for countries that rely too heavily on access fees from longlining.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

The European Central Bank s response has been analogous to the Fed s, but less forceful, with monetary policy easier than the headline inflation rate would suggest is appropriate. And in Western Europe, too, GDP is now declining.

As a result, income inequality in Brazil is declining.

And in Western Europe, too, GDP is now declining.

This is encouraging, especially after years of declining trends.

Let s assume that costs to prevent additional accumulation of CO2 (and equivalents) come to 1 of GNP every year forever, and, in accordance with a fair amount of empirical evidence, that the component of the discount rate attributable to the declining marginal utility of consumption is equal to twice the rate of growth of consumption.

That pattern of rising prices and declining real earnings repeated itself in February and March, with a sharp rise in the consumer price index causing real average weekly earnings to decline at an annual rate of more than 5 .

Citizens, unsurprisingly, complained about the declining legitimacy of EU institutions.

Similarly, the survey found declining support for an Islamic state.

Apart from the declining reimbursement rates, the euro dollar exchange rate was unfavourable for the operational budget during 2003 and 2004, resulting in a lower support cost income in the euro currency, despite an increasing volume of technical cooperation delivery.

Tourism revenues, while resilient, are declining, and fiscal challenges remain considerable.

The declining average is partly due to a furiously trading fringe.

As a result, Russia s gas exports to Europe have started declining.

The population is declining, but immigration is blocked for ideological reasons.

Declining dependence on external sources, properly pursued, is an important development.

Although the practice is slowing declining, arranged marriages continue to occur.

Of those declining to participate, most were supportive of the concept.

Because they had the sense that declining wages are worse than rising wages, even when the total amount of wages is higher in the declining period. Here's another nice example.

As reports of declining catches near shore are emerging, many on these islands are faced with a Faustian choice between declining opportunities for subsistence fishing and relatively lucrative access agreements.