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

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

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

After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.

Yet the absence of any such growth windfall in a still sluggish US economy has unmasked QE as little more than a yield seeking liquidity foil.

On the demand side, the ongoing economic slowdown in China is starting to affect companies orders and revenues, adding to the challenges stemming from the persistently sluggish US economy.

Having suffered a deeper economic collapse in 2009 than the United States did, Europe s economy is poised for a much more sluggish recovery if one can call it that.

Chinese policymakers should bear in mind that the value of the yuan is only one among many factors that affects the competitiveness of China s economy. After all, a currency can appreciate while an economy is sluggish, or depreciate despite robust growth.

Of course, it is not easy to legislate financial reform in a stagnant global economy, for fear of impeding credit and turning a sluggish recovery into a full blown recession.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2002, the transport sector saw a revival of river transport and a marked increase in the volume of road freight, while air freight, which had begun to decline several years earlier, continued its downward trend, owing to its prohibitive cost, weak purchasing power and a sluggish domestic economy.

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

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.

That reveals how much the country has changed in the last four decades, and how large and influential its middle class has become. It was precisely that middle class, fed up with allegations of corruption and a sluggish economy, that turned against the ruling Workers Party (PT) and voted for change.

Faced with sluggish external demand, weak domestic consumption, rising labor costs, and low productivity, China depends excessively on investment to drive economic growth.

CAMBRIDGE As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades.

With the American consumer likely to remain on ice, the same 30 must also continue to shoulder the burden of a sluggish economic recovery.

With a baseline scenario of recession or sluggish growth amid budget austerity for years ahead, Portugal will likely seek help sooner rather than later.

This raises the question of whether Japan s current problems sluggish growth, high public debt, and rapid population aging presage a similar trend across East Asia.

Instead, Western central banks have had to confront market failures, fragmented financial systems, clogged monetary policy transmission mechanisms, and sluggish growth in output and employment.

Moreover, the Fed has left the door open to more quantitative easing next year a tacit acknowledgement that the recovery will be long and sluggish.

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.

Now, however, closer economic integration means that sluggish growth in China and India will reduce job opportunities and slow the rate of poverty reduction throughout the region.

Yet US economic growth remains sluggish, and is accompanied by stubbornly high unemployment. QE has been blamed for everything from asset price bubbles to food riots to impetigo.

She has yet to deal with the major problems of the day financial instability, Europe s sluggish growth, the Middle East and she cannot avoid them during her campaign.

Moreover, the problem is not just one of public debt. A much higher ratio of taxes to GDP only trades a deficit problem for more sluggish economic growth.

Economy Agriculture dominates the economy of Calvados.

Unfortunately, economic performance was sluggish in 2000 and 2001 (zero growth in 2000, and estimates between 1.0 1.4 in 2001, largely attributed to slight increases in tourism, banking, industry, and construction).

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.

It is more reassuring and feels better to tell Europeans that growth is sluggish because society is not sufficiently knowledge based, rather than pointing to the trade off between vacations and growth.

The Barbados economy is now largely a coastal economy.

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Economy The economy on Weh Island is dominated by agriculture.

Second, the world economy was becoming increasingly a service economy.