But the resulting economic slack gives us the historic opportunity and need to compensate for low consumer spending with increased investment spending on sustainable technologies.

China successfully navigated the crisis, avoiding a significant slowdown, by ramping up public spending.

Containing China s Slowdown

China successfully navigated the crisis, avoiding a significant slowdown, by ramping up public spending. But, as a result, it now has no further scope for increasing public consumption or investment.

And, in our globally integrated world, the slowdown in Europe will exacerbate the slowdown in the US, and vice versa.

Moreover, given continuing malaise in credit and housing markets, private consumption will remain subdued indeed, two percentage points of the 2.8 expansion in the last quarter of 2011 reflected rising inventories rather than final sales.

NEW HAVEN China s economy is slowing.

Within China, the current slowdown is mostly homemade.

SHANGHAI Everyone is talking about China s economic slowdown.

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.

Population growth has been slowing since the late 1960 s.

The slowdown would be one tenth the size of the one the US is now enduring, and it would be largely confined to the construction sector.

But it is not just the slowdown that has the skeptics worked up.

So, too, are signs of newfound policy discipline such as a central bank that seems determined to wean China off excessive credit creation and fiscal authorities that have resisted the timeworn temptation of yet another massive round of spending initiatives to counter a slowdown.

The problem is that the permits market price has plummeted in the midst of Europe s economic slowdown.

An economic slowdown will exacerbate all our financial problems.

In China, the economic slowdown underway is unmistakable.

The impending global slowdown has intensified protectionist pressures.

The financial crisis is over, but the age of general economic slowdown is only just beginning.

Spending. Obama has dramatically increased spending.

It is subject to what Milton Friedman called long and variable lags.

But the global economy is slowing down, and financial markets went into a tailspin during the summer.

A lower debt burden would certainly help Japan deal with its economic slowdown.

The former would exacerbate the country s slowdown, and neither change is in the cards.

The result as visible as it was predictable has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

Libya s new leaders suffer from something worse than foot dragging.

Previously, the government blamed the country s economic problems on the global slowdown.

The Fed pumped money into the US economy and slashed its main interest rate the Federal Funds rate from 3.5 in August 2001 to a mere 1 by mid 2003.

While emerging economies have out performed developed countries, both have slowed.

This phase, where the increase of the rate of growth is checked, is the deceleration phase.

Health expenditures represented about 6.1 of total government spending.

Last, but not least, the US productivity boom is decelerating.

China is in the throes of an identity crisis as it faces an almost inevitable economic slowdown and the need to implement a new growth model.

But China s looming slowdown is likely to be both manageable and welcome.

The emerging market slowdown ought to be a warning shot that something much worse could happen.

Table 3 presents the rates of disburpersal, which averageds 73 per cent of planned expenditure in 2004.

Sami went on another spending spree.

Since 1998 expenditure in this sector has increased from 22 to 29 per cent of Government spending in 2003.

As a share of total government spending, defense expenditure has fallen from 7.8 in 1998 to 6.1 in 2006.

CHICAGO Emerging markets around the world Brazil, China, India, and Russia, to name the largest are slowing.

And now the darlings of the world economy, emerging markets, have proved unable to reverse their own slowdowns.

Many European economies are already slowing, with some entering recession.

Russia, Brazil, and South Africa are growing at around 3 , and other emerging markets are slowing as well.

Or it can let its currency appreciate, at the risk of inducing a growth slowdown and political and social unrest at home.

Economists agree that, at full employment, higher government spending crowds out private spending.