A weak dollar also affects demand by increasing consumption.

Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

With domestic demand still weak, more export demand is just what the doctor ordered for an anemic economy.

Both views accept that the central source of weak aggregate demand is the disappearance of demand from former borrowers.

With private sector demand still weak, austerity is slowing, not accelerating, recovery.

Thus, the recovery of global aggregate demand will be weak, pushing global growth much lower.

But, during a period of weak domestic demand, structural reforms might actually exacerbate short term problems.

When an economy is suffering from high unemployment and weak aggregate demand, spending cuts are contractionary.

It simply reflects the recessionary (or deflationary) force of weak global demand hanging over the world economy.

Given weak demand, which may be prolonged, Chinese exporters must accept increasingly thin profit margins to maintain market share.

Finally, as is true in many of the advanced countries, weak demand constrains Italy s short and medium term growth.

As such, this what if is a cautiously optimistic assessment of the downside risks stemming from weak external demand.

In the US, the weak dollar will be a powerful boost to net exports, and thus to aggregate demand.

When demand in Germany and France was quite weak early in the last decade, the ECB reduced interest rates sharply.

Efficiency dictates the use of fewer and larger currencies (and foreign investors, understandably wary of weak and volatile currencies, demand it).

When weak aggregate demand causes the economy to operate far below its potential, cuts in government spending enlarge the jobs deficit.

Because oil is priced in dollars, a weak dollar makes oil cheaper to users in other countries, which increases global demand.

It is necessary because persistently weak global growth is unlikely to provide the solid external demand for Chinese exports that it once did.

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

But now growth rates for Chinese exports and related indices in manufacturing have fallen, largely owing to weak external demand, especially in Europe.

In addition, net foreign capital inflows are likely to dwindle for several quarters at least, affecting domestic monetary conditions while aggregate demand is weak.

Faced with weak demand in advanced countries, Asian economies are working to rebalance their sources of growth by shifting toward domestic and regional markets.

Weak demand especially the post crisis collapse in consumer spending growth is a far more likely culprit than China in explaining the recent hiring shortfall.

But John Maynard Keynes pointed out that surpluses lead to weak global aggregate demand countries running surpluses exert a negative externality on their trading partners.

But it is becoming increasingly difficult for factories in the region to remain in business under conditions of weak global demand and strong local currencies.

Even in a situation with relatively slow demand growth and weak prices, new capacity may still be added successfully if production costs are low enough.

Weak external demand is partly responsible for the falloff in growth, but internal factors namely, slowing investment and stagnating consumption are also holding back economic expansion.

However, it will be difficult for Yemen to sustain the present growth of domestic demand because of its decreasing oil production and weak non oil exports.

If a trilateral Northeast Asian FTA can be concluded, the three countries would be able to generate more market demand domestically at a time of weak demand from the West, and would gain greater influence in the global political economy.

In fact, its weak domestic demand has dampened growth elsewhere. As a result, German banks and taxpayers are less likely to recover their bad loans to southern Europe.

It makes the weak force very weak by giving the weak particles a large mass.

Weak isospin is a complement of the weak hypercharge, which unifies weak interactions with electromagnetic interactions.

How could this be? As the economic historian Alexander Field has shown, many firms took the down time created by weak demand for their products to reorganize their operations.

When weak demand leads to recession, increase government spending and or cut taxes by just the right amount, determined by a Keynesian multiplier, and presto! the economy rebounds quickly.

Since the amount of foreign reserves available to defend a weak currency (a currency in low demand) is limited, a currency crisis or devaluation could be the end result.

As a result, the income of the global elite is growing both rapidly and independently of what is happening in terms of overall output and employment growth. Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

On the supply side, permanently lower output makes fiscal adjustment even more compulsory but, on the demand side, a weak private economy lacks the resilience needed to weather fiscal retrenchment.

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Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top line revenues takes a toll on bottom line margins and profitability.

Many projects, from airports to university campuses, benefit from returns over decades, which implies that weak demand in the short term will have only a limited impact on their overall viability.

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Given weak demand in slow growing advanced economies, rising commodity prices may lead only to a small first round effect on headline inflation there, with little second round impact on core inflation.

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