China s Slow Growth Opportunity

In today s crisis lies tomorrow s opportunity economic opportunity, measured in jobs and growth.

First, the delay implies a lost opportunity to raise global growth.

The African Growth and Opportunity Act is a different example of a bilateral preferential trade agreement.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries witnessed record growth rates offering them an opportunity to be the engine of economic growth that fosters region wide development.

The productivity growth that was sustained through the downturn presented both an opportunity and a challenge.

In fact, seizing this opportunity is the only recipe for genuine growth that we have left.

Rising inequality in either opportunity or outcomes (and often both) also poses threats to the sustainability of growth patterns.

In this sense, China has a rare opportunity to expand its growth potential by stimulating domestic demand.

Through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the United States is helping African economies seize the opportunities of trade.

The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act has brought investment and jobs in many African nations and has helped establish necessary commercial linkages for those nations to enjoy greater economic opportunity.

As a result, Senegal, a cosmopolitan country, is missing out on Africa s best opportunity for growth since de colonization.

Regulation and regulatory issues emerge as the next frontier or opportunity for ensuring sustained growth in the retailing sector.

Meanwhile, negotiations offer Europe the opportunity to shift its narrative from the monotonous drone of crisis management to a genuine recipe for growth.

The crisis can yet be an opportunity to turn from a path of financial bubbles and excessive consumption to a path of sustainable development. In fact, seizing this opportunity is the only recipe for genuine growth that we have left.

With China s mortgage lending equal to only 10 of GDP, compared to 60 70 in the Anglo Saxon countries, there is huge opportunity for growth.

The ongoing socio political transition, underpinned by widespread public recognition of the need for change, provides a historic opportunity to embark on growth enhancing reforms.

Other sectors, such as services and tourism, have been growing and have been recognized as key areas for opportunity and economic growth.

This finding dovetails with the work of Harvard University s Benjamin Friedman, who argues in The Moral Consequences of Growth that economic growth more often than not fosters greater opportunity, tolerance of diversity, social mobility, commitment to fairness, and dedication to democracy.

Europe s major competitors are turning climate change into an opportunity to encourage growth and create high quality jobs in rapidly innovating economic sectors.

Rent seeking, the ability of entrenched elites to allocate resources to themselves and smother opportunity for others, invariably leads to a less competitive market and lower growth.

This provides a rare opportunity to boost economic growth, save and improve lives, and help families, communities, and countries move from poverty to prosperity.

Chinese policymakers should view the shadow banking scare as a market driven opportunity to transform the banking system into an efficient, balanced, inclusive, and productive engine of growth.

And, third, growth in the embryonic services sector, which currently accounts for just 43 of the country s GDP, broadens China s economic base, creating a significant opportunity to reduce income inequality.

Promotion of equality of opportunity

It is an opportunity to begin developing the capacity at all levels to transform our economies into engines of growth and jobs that do not deplete our resources or create new liabilities that will be a drag on growth and human health for years to come.

In theory, at least, China s rapid growth, if it continues, offers southern Africa a highly promising economic opportunity, not least by underpinning commodity prices and thus boosting southern Africa s terms of trade.

Take advantage of every opportunity.

For China, accepting lower growth provides a crucial opportunity to support stable and sustainable development. If China s leaders stay the course of reform and rebalancing, the entire global economy will be better off.

13 See Aditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy and Arvind Subramanyam, The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its rules of origin generosity undermined? , Policy Research Working Paper 2908 (Washington, D.C., World Bank, October 2002).

Well, you know that situation where you get an evaluation from your boss, and she tells you 37 things you do really awesome, and one thing an opportunity for growth?

It provides the parties and people with a long awaited opportunity to bring the north south conflict to a close and to set a course for stability, growth and development.

We know the negative images of Africa famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, there's another, less told story happening in many African nations one of reform, economic growth and business opportunity.

As seen earlier in Asia, the slowdown in rural population growth and the reduced burden of childcare creates a window of opportunity for new investment to bring larger year on year increases in output per capita.

This is the Africa of opportunity.

But, based on what he has revealed, we know that it would increase the jobs deficit, the investment deficit, and the opportunity deficit, with negative consequences for future growth and prosperity.

You just need an opportunity. My opportunity came in the form of Beau, and the Blackawton Bee Project.

Education and Opportunity

They should make of necessity an opportunity.

Yet the window of opportunity closes quickly.

This is a moment of great opportunity.

The debate raging 10 years ago about China s rapid growth whether it represents a danger or an opportunity has now settled into broad agreement that wider regional development would be impossible without it.

They must demonstrate that the Party s power, legitimacy, and substantial assets are held in trust for the benefit of all Chinese, above all by fostering a pattern of inclusive growth and a system of equal opportunity with a meritocratic foundation.

Preferential access for African countries, under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and more recent initiatives, seems to be largely a matter of trade diversion taking trade from some poor countries and giving it to others.

Latin America s low personal debt levels have created an opportunity to build a constructive culture of borrowing while expanding economic opportunity.