The rate of economic decline has slowed.

This is hardly a picture of absolute economic decline.

The secret behind the cut in emissions was economic decline.

Japan may be in economic decline, but it is rising politically.

So, as Pakistan negotiated its political transition, it experienced significant economic decline.

With the help of North Sea oil, Thatcher reversed Britain s relative economic decline.

In Ukraine that means not only violent unrest, but economic decline and renewed repression.

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Also for the euro area, the Ifo Economic Climate index registered a dramatic decline.

Economic growth slowed in 1998, with decline in the mining, construction, and utility sectors.

Italy began to experience an economic and social decline as the 16th century progressed.

Without a regional focus, WANA countries risk sleepwalking into conflict and more pronounced economic decline.

If not, we will face a much longer period of economic and political disorder and decline.

Ultimately, the deepest causes of the Soviet collapse were the decline of communist ideology and economic failure.

And Japan s political stalemate on structural reforms has left it helpless to stem long term economic decline.

Moreover, many African countries hit bottom and rebounded from long periods of civil war and economic decline.

By contrast, skeptics hold that the US economy already contains the seeds of its own socio economic decline.

They were responsible to a great extent for Britain s economic decline in the 1960 s and 1970 s.

Indeed, having suffered from post revolutionary institutional and political dysfunctions, economic decline is now itself fueling these destabilizers.

The Soviet economy s decline, meanwhile, reflected the diminished ability of central planning to respond to global economic change.

Opponents of recent economic policy rebel against the hypothesis that an absence of government intervention and support could produce an economic decline of that magnitude today.

And equity values decline toward a more realistic reflection of economic fundamentals will further weaken aggregate demand and growth.

The decline of free market orthodoxy in the rest of the world was caused by two factors its failures as an approach to economic policy and the decline of US prestige and soft power.

The decline of free market orthodoxy in the rest of the world was caused by two factors its failures as an approach to economic policy and the decline of US prestige and soft power.

And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.

Today, it has strengthened its state institutions, overcome economic decline, and regained status as a major actor in world politics.

This is due primarily to the lack of significant economic growth and to the increasing decline in foreign direct investment.

The decline of parties reflects the decline of class.

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All the ingredients seem to be in place for a long and powerful perfect storm of economic decline and social unrest.

Furthermore, the decline in the working age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country s economic competitiveness.

Organizations like the United Nations Development Program have repeatedly issued reports demonstrating the connection between economic decline and oppression of women.

Failure to properly address those challenges could precipitate further conflict or result in a sharp decline in social and economic progress.

Not all countries experiencing a decline of fertility have seen economic growth increase markedly as a result of the demographic bonus.

Tourism, which has been the engine of our national economic growth for the past three decades, has suffered a sharp decline.

Following a peak in growth in 1979, the Liberian economy began a steady decline due to economic mismanagement following the 1980 coup.

The outlook for 2005 is for a slowdown in economic growth as commodity prices decline but for a slight increase in inflation.

They must be allowed to decline or move inland (and eventually decline).

Although there is little detailed economic data for 2004, reports indicate that the Ivorian deficit has continued to increase and that the real economic output for the country has continued to decline.

China interpreted that crisis as symbolizing both the decline of the Anglo American brand of capitalism and the weakening of American economic power.

Protectionism normally thrives in times of economic peril. Confronted by economic decline and rising unemployment, governments are much more likely to pay attention to domestic pressure groups than to upholding their international obligations.

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But chronic stalemate has confronted many Asian democracies with the threat of being discredited, a potential for violence, and the prospect of economic decline.