Some government programs are shrinking from lack of demand.

At that point, with US demand shrinking, the rest of the world would indeed feel the economic effects of a Romney presidency quite directly.

China s Incredible Shrinking Economy

China s Shrinking Trade Surplus

However, his options are shrinking rapidly.

Reich also persuasively describes the vicious circle with falling wages undermining consumer demand and leading, in turn, to shrinking output that has made the US economy fragile and boosted social instability.

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

At the current moment, economic well being is shrinking.

But trying to redress budget deficits in the midst of a collapse in domestic demand makes problems worse, not better. A shrinking economy makes private and public debt look less sustainable, which does nothing for market confidence.

Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

Distance is shrinking. Geographical barriers no longer provide easy protection.

The ever shrinking old generation of Saudi kings in waiting.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

Throughout the world, male female differences in HIV prevalence are shrinking.

These qualities are now needed within the United Nations library system in order to deal with the complexities of a continuously changing information environment and a working environment characterized by shrinking resources and a strong demand for client satisfaction.

It is also worthy of note that the price of DDT has risen over the last couple of years and this may be a trend that persists as a reduced demand erodes the economies of scale in a shrinking production.

The British economy is contracting. Greece s economy has been shrinking for years.

So shrinking export markets will slow down growth promoting structural change at home.

Without action, the economy faces the threat of declining consumption and even shrinking output.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

During the bubble years, the situation was exactly the opposite most of the workers released by a rapidly shrinking manufacturing sector could be employed easily in construction and social services, which require only low skills (likewise, real estate services demand only rather general skills).

Some of the recent rise, associated with the shrinking of glaciers, is not caused by human activities, since the glaciers have been shrinking for hundreds of years while human activities became significant only in the last century.

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan s population is aging and shrinking.

Austerians believe that only balancing government budgets and shrinking national debts will restore investor confidence.

The comfort level for perpetrators of these crimes is shrinking as the options for prosecution expand.

In short, no nation on this changing, shrinking planet can truly address its own problems in isolation.

A shrinking economy makes private and public debt look less sustainable, which does nothing for market confidence.

In any case, the scope for tax increases is severely limited in an economy that is shrinking quickly.

Savers, on the other hand, may be compelled to save more in the face of shrinking interest income.

Egyptian Amro Ali shares this infographic which shows the ever shrinking old generations of Saudi kings in waiting.

God knows what every female bears , and the wombs ' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

God knows what every female bears , and the wombs ' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

I ve been off chemo since 18th of April 2011. I can feel my tumors shrinking and I m still alive! )

They live from paycheck to paycheck often a shrinking paycheck, owing to the decline in hourly wages and hours worked.

And both face serious demographic problems, given shrinking and aging populations, as well as the challenge of Asia s rising superpowers.

Coastlines are shrinking. We ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.

In Europe, for example, raising the retirement age for public pensions and shrinking government employment would curtail welfare state excesses.

Rather than focusing on shrinking the size of existing fleets, European leaders should focus on getting more out of them.

Just as Europe s population is aging and will be shrinking, that of much of the developing world is young and growing.

But the Iranian budget is now running a 15 of GDP deficit, and foreign reserves are shrinking, despite the oil boom.

The globalized environment was marked by shrinking economies and a reduction of employment opportunities, forcing many women into the informal sector.

Energy demand

Demand reduction

Demand reduction