Advanced economies will face sluggish (call it 2 ) growth and persistently high, increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment.

In 2000 2010, after decades of sluggish growth, six of the world s ten fastest growing economies were in sub Saharan Africa.

Sluggish, treacherous What difference?

She's a little sluggish today.

Why are you being so sluggish?

Why are you so sluggish today?

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.

BARCELONA In recent months, the dichotomy between booming financial markets, on the one hand, and sluggish economies and dysfunctional politics, on the other, has loomed large.

On the positive side, the sluggish growth in the developed market economies reinforced the downward trend of inflation in 1992 to levels not seen since the 1960s.

And this can lead to a sluggish Ul.

But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.

Baby, wake up. She's a bit sluggish since her dinner last week.

This year, however, output is expected to rise by a relatively sluggish 5.9 .

1. The world economy was sluggish in 1992 and its future course uncertain.

You don't say so! said Hall, who was a man of sluggish apprehension.

They are constantly challenging sluggish, over centralized responses to their asymmetrical, adaptable organizations and methods.

The distortions and distributional issues are set to become more pressing as the size and impact of the major emerging economies increases, owing to their return to rapid growth, and as the advanced countries experience an extended period of sluggish performance.

Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy s sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.

After all, a currency can appreciate while an economy is sluggish, or depreciate despite robust growth.

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

Unemployment and sluggish growth are unexpectedly severe burdens on their productive capacity, both domestically and externally.

Close to the pyramid everything is slowed down. Again, like the sluggish part of a river.

Moreover, its economic performance has been relatively sluggish, with a growth rate of just 2.3 last year.

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

Those days are gone. The distortions and distributional issues are set to become more pressing as the size and impact of the major emerging economies increases, owing to their return to rapid growth, and as the advanced countries experience an extended period of sluggish performance.

43. In his state of the Territory address in January 1993, the Governor informed the Legislature that the lingering effects of the United States and the world economies continue to have a negative impact on the Territory apos s economy, which he described as sluggish.

The G 7 recovery has been unusually sluggish, notwithstanding large and unprecedented policy stimulus (particularly in the US).

Sluggish economic activity has increased the rate of urban unemployment to an estimated 34 of the labor force.

The sluggish growth stemmed from the slump in unit values, since export volumes rose by 6 per cent.

Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, economic growth remains sluggish, and unemployment is stuck at a worrisomely high level.

Consumers paying off that debt is one of the main reasons why our economic recovery is so sluggish today.

But, while risk aversion and volatility were falling and asset prices were rising, economic growth remained sluggish throughout the world.

The world s largest economy, the United States, expanded by 3.2 , and growth also recovered in previously sluggish Japan and Europe.

The combination of loose fiscal policy and tight monetary policy will mean high interest rates, sluggish investment, and slow growth.

Sluggish growth was also a combined result of inappropriate economic policies and deeply rooted structural problems inherited from the past.

Modern economies,

Table 1 Net transfer of financial resources to selected developed economies, developing economies and economies in transition, 1993 2004

Revolutionizing Arab Economies

Small, vulnerable economies

ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION

Like the advanced economies, emerging economies experienced a boom in 2000 2007.

These factors combine to make the economies of SIDS high cost economies.

Until both are addressed properly, the West will remain burdened by sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and excessive income and wealth inequality.

Given the sluggish recovery, Bernanke could have gone even further and argued that the Fed is the one who has it right.

Even if that is true, proponents might argue, investment in green jobs is nonetheless a good way to stimulate a sluggish economy.