China successfully navigated the crisis, avoiding a significant slowdown, by ramping up public spending.

With monetary policy and some of the administrative controls on investment and local spending being relaxed, the slowdown should be brief.

These risks are already exacerbating the economic slowdown equity markets are falling everywhere, leading to negative wealth effects on consumption and capital spending.

And, in our globally integrated world, the slowdown in Europe will exacerbate the slowdown in the US, and vice versa.

All of these economies were already growing anemically and below trend, as the ongoing process of deleveraging required a slowdown of public and private spending in order to increase saving rates and reduce debts.

China successfully navigated the crisis, avoiding a significant slowdown, by ramping up public spending. But, as a result, it now has no further scope for increasing public consumption or investment.

Containing China s Slowdown

In China, the economic slowdown underway is unmistakable.

Long Live China s Slowdown

So, in 2007, everyone expected a construction led slowdown.

Third, while US data have been surprisingly encouraging, America s growth momentum appears to be peaking. Fiscal tightening will escalate in 2012 and 2013, contributing to a slowdown, as will the expiration of tax benefits that boosted capital spending in 2011.

Thus, the US slowdown affects European exports in two ways.

The most immediate threat is the slowdown in the advanced economies.

The policy response to the slowdown in investment differs across countries.

A major slowdown seems to be looming.

A slowdown in one is bound to produce a slowdown in the other and in the major emerging economies, which, until now, could sustain high growth in the face of sluggish performance in the advanced economies.

Within China, the current slowdown is mostly homemade.

SHANGHAI Everyone is talking about China s economic slowdown.

The impending global slowdown has intensified protectionist pressures.

BEIJING The slowdown of China s economy has captured the headlines in recent weeks.

Spending. Obama has dramatically increased spending.

An economic slowdown will exacerbate all our financial problems.

The former would exacerbate the country s slowdown, and neither change is in the cards.

So a recession in Europe would cause a slowdown in China s export dependent economy as well.

A further slowdown in China and other emerging economies is another risk to financial markets.

Indeed, a key reason for China s slowdown in 2011 2012 is that officials wanted it.

The continent s economies experienced a slowdown, but not a recession.

The US currently has the smallest share of government spending in GDP, although it has gained substantially on Canada because of the spending explosion since 2000 President George W. Bush s military spending and Obama s social spending

So, too, are signs of newfound policy discipline such as a central bank that seems determined to wean China off excessive credit creation and fiscal authorities that have resisted the timeworn temptation of yet another massive round of spending initiatives to counter a slowdown.

Some claim that infrastructure spending creates a big Keynesian multiplier, a bigger increase in incomes than the initial spending (estimates range up to about 1.5 times the initial increase in spending).

Otherwise, the construction led economic slowdown would not be today s 1 trillion in annual lost production.

The result as visible as it was predictable has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export led economy.

That restructuring will occur, deficit spending or no deficit spending.

The problem is that the permits market price has plummeted in the midst of Europe s economic slowdown.

In short, implementation of fiscal, financial, and structural reforms can mitigate the spillover effects from China s slowdown.

Moreover, donor countries had reduced their official development assistance owing to a slowdown in their economic growth.

There is little waste to cut from domestic spending, and many areas where increases in public spending are needed.

MANILA As the slowdown in the world s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected.

In August 2001, he wrote that, The driving force behind the current slowdown is a plunge in business investment.

But China s looming slowdown is likely to be both manageable and welcome.

Previously, the government blamed the country s economic problems on the global slowdown.

The second reason for India s slowdown stems from the global financial crisis.

Spending rate

Or public spending all European leaders adamantly want to reduce government spending.