Stagnant growth and emigration are two of the main factors causing division in the Americas.

Cutting growth rates by 40 70 is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs.

Without growth, tax revenues will remain stagnant, and the capacity to service debts will continue to erode.

After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5 in 2006.

Stagnant and Paralyzed

So it looks increasingly difficult for the UK s central bank to promote economic growth, which has been stagnant for the two last quarters.

Portugal where growth has been stagnant for a decade is experiencing a slow motion fiscal train wreck that will lead to public sector insolvency.

Because most people s incomes are stagnant and being eroded as their mortgage payments rise, consumption is bound to fall, yielding lower growth and employment.

They were facing increased poverty, a stagnant economic situation and a slowdown in economic growth resulting from the debt crisis of the early 1980s.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline.

Energy shocks contributed to a lethal combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation, and every US president since Nixon likewise has proclaimed energy independence as a goal.

Income growth for the middle class in most advanced countries has been stagnant, and employment opportunities have been declining, especially in the tradable part of the economy.

Cutting growth rates by 40 70 is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs. Moreover, such a slowdown would devastate the developing world, as weaker performance in the advanced economies reduces the growth of export markets.

In the face of relatively stagnant markets, volatile prices and declining terms of trade, investment dropped further, diversification stalled and productivity remained stagnant.

But gold is stagnant, while capital is productive.

Moreover, economic growth is expected to be modest in 2005 due to stagnant employment opportunities, a continued downsizing of the international presence and a decline in bilateral and multilateral assistance.

In the United States, since 2001 we've had five years of economic growth, five years of productivity growth in the workplace, but median wages are stagnant and the percentage of working families dropping below the poverty line is up by four percent.

Whole regions the Urals and Mordovia, for example are stagnant.

In the early 1960s, the Czechoslovak economy became severely stagnant.

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.

If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.

Energy shocks contributed to a lethal combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation, and every US president since Nixon likewise has proclaimed energy independence as a goal. But few people took those promises seriously.

In the late 1970 s, when the world was facing a mixture of stagnant growth and inflation, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt insistently told British, French, and American leaders that their deficits were wrong and dangerous.

These statistics, which represent popular sentiment in the world s largest economy, should raise significant concerns for governments and business leaders elsewhere, particularly in countries challenged by stagnant growth and rising levels of youth unemployment.

Crucially for Europe, world trade has been virtually stagnant in recent months.

Aid to the poorest countries is stagnant, despite years of promised increases.

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

The developing world was growing nicely, while the advanced countries were virtually stagnant.

Kaldor s argument was based on the erroneous premise that services were technologically stagnant.

The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades.

It is a necessary but insufficient first step for overhauling Egypt s stagnant political system.

But if prices remain stagnant at current levels, Putin s system is doomed to failure.

Indeed, such attitudes are potentially disastrous. If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.

The everyday consequence for the middle class is a stagnant paycheck and growing job insecurity.

With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.

For two decades, as one Asian economy after another boomed, Japan s economy remained virtually stagnant.

That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline. Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

For these sectors, rapid investment driven growth in the past decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real estate speculation.

The Japanese demography will drastically change so that more young people will have to support for the older population, which implies that this change in demography is the main culprit for the last two decades of deflation and stagnant economic growth.

Closed political systems and stagnant economies in the Muslim world, they contend, are symptoms, not causes.

Employing workers in sectors where their productivity is stagnant would not be a recipe for social stability.

In countries coming out of war or other conflicts, efforts at inclusion are futile in stagnant economies.

Hizb al ghad recently produced a 48 page draft constitution, aimed at reviving Egypt s stagnant political life.

Yet workers share of the pie is falling, thanks to high unemployment, shortened working hours, and stagnant wages.