Note ( ) indicates negative growth.

Slow growth is manageable. Negative growth is not.

The Negative Way to Growth?

Like many other European countries, Belarus has a negative population growth rate and a negative natural growth rate.

The natural growth rate of the population is negative.

(c) Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget

(c) Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget

(c) Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget

(c) Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget

On current trends, the fourth quarter s growth rate will turn negative.

Negative OFDI growth was experienced in 1985, 1989, 1998 and 2002.

Growth in the eurozone has turned negative overall, significantly so in the south.

Export growth is down sharply, turning negative vis à vis the eurozone s periphery.

But, over the same period, annual GDP growth has averaged a modest 3.5 , and productivity growth has slipped into negative territory.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

The growth of foreign debt is certainly a negative facet of that indispensable aid.

In Italy and Spain, growth is negative, and youth unemployment is 35 and 55 , respectively.

Stock markets unusually negative skew is not inconsistent with booming price growth in recent years.

These policies had a strongly negative effect on economic and population growth during her reign.

It is a mistake to believe that ecological concerns can be addressed only through negative growth.

The warfare caused negative impact on economic growth, especially the large scale Tet Offensive in 1968.

Indeed, many historical episodes of diminished or even negative growth have gone by without any unusual social problems.

Extreme fiscal imbalance can also lead to a growth trap in which fiscal consolidation has such a large negative effect on growth as to be self defeating.

A combination of negligible (or even negative) growth in Europe and a significant growth slowdown in the United States has now created that loss, undermining emerging economies exports.

GDP growth had been negative since 2001, and it had reached a trough of 7.6 per cent in 2003.

This would have a negative impact on the balance of payments, macroeconomic stability and the investment needed for growth.

Low or negative population growth also implies lower potential economic growth and therefore worse debt to GDP dynamics and increasingly grave doubts about the sustainability of public sector debt.

In 2001, 34 of the population was considered urban, but that is expected to grow, since rural population growth is negative, while overall population growth is still relatively high.

Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.

Despite a recovery in asset prices in many countries and the deceleration of negative growth, unemployment is high and rising.

An increase in fiscal deficits and public debt places negative pressure on financial systems and growth prospects, eroding country creditworthiness.

To offset the negative impact of private sector deleveraging on growth, the US government has maintained expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.

The impact on growth will almost certainly be negative, even if domestic demand compensates fully for the decline in external demand.

Thirty years of stable growth without serious crises have made people less aware of the negative consequences of overheating and bubbles.

On account of the increases for security related requirements and the negative growth operational budget, most major programmes show a reduction.

And yet reliance on external demand remains fundamentally unchanged, even as the contribution of net exports to GDP growth has turned negative.

It has one of the most negative population growth rates in the world, ranking 225th out of 233 countries and territories overall.

Excess capacity and falling growth are mutually reinforcing. Not only does excess capacity have a negative impact on growth perhaps more important, sharply declining growth also contributes to massive redundancy in some industries (especially resources and the heavy and chemical industries).

Profits can be made when energy is rationed or subsidized, but only within an economy operating at lower, or even negative, growth rates.

But, in an environment of slow growth and high unemployment, sentiment in the advanced countries regarding efforts to liberalize trade is distinctly negative.

For most non oil exporting developing countries, the improvement in commodity prices stimulated 2004 growth, outweighing the negative effects of higher oil prices.

Extreme fiscal imbalance can also lead to a growth trap in which fiscal consolidation has such a large negative effect on growth as to be self defeating. Greece is probably a case in point.

Negative 6 times infinity is negative infinity.

Derivative of negative 6x is negative 6.

Derivative of negative 3x squared is negative 6x.