Over the next decade, growth in this kind of developing country demand will help offset the slow growth of demand in industrial countries.

As food supply growth slowed, demand continued to grow, and not only due to population increase.

Thus, there is a global slackening of aggregate demand relative to the glut of supply capacity, which will impede a robust global economic recovery.

Savings could remain high, even as current consumption grows slowly, while the trade balance would be held in check by higher demand for imported capital goods.

Long Live China s Slowdown

Moreover, two thirds of the decline is attributable to slower investment rather than slower consumption.

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.

So, even as growth slowed, the central bank raised interest rates in order to rebalance demand and the available supply, causing the economy to slow further.

Import demand within the developing economies is unlikely to compensate fully for the slowdown in the developed economies, but China will continue to be an important determinant of trade performance for most parts of the region.

The price fall represents a return to more normal conditions after the overheating of the market in 2004, and reflects the fact that demand growth has slowed in most parts of the world while supply has continued to increase.

Gains in inflation adjusted personal consumption expenditure have averaged a mere 0.8 over the past five years the most severe and protracted slowdown in consumer demand growth in the post World War II era.

China s real estate investment accounted for 10 of GDP, and slower investment growth in the sector necessarily reduces import demand, directly and indirectly.

Indeed, its sluggishness has confounded even the experts.

But a slowdown in China s economic growth cannot really be blamed for slower sales of luxury goods or empty malls.

Those hoping for large deficit reductions will be sorely disappointed, as the economic slowdown will push down tax revenues and increase demands for unemployment insurance and other social benefits.

Slower growth means less revenue, and a faster downward spiral.

The Slow Movement advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace.

As European growth slows, so will inflationary pressures.

The financial crisis may slow this trend.

The most immediate threat is the slowdown in the advanced economies.

But, with the economy slowing, it has become a model in need of renewal.

The second reason for India s slowdown stems from the global financial crisis.

In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path export led growth.

Only if the budget surplus diminishes would there be an inflationary impact, and that would not be due to a wage price spiral, but to an increase in net government demand, which actually might not be a bad thing for an economy facing a potentially severe economic slowdown.

A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export led economy.

But the price for protecting workers and firms was slower growth and higher unemployment.

Even the pessimists are speaking only of lower positive growth.

As its economy slows, the improvement in its fiscal position may be minimal.

Second, the factors slowing US growth are chronic.

BEIJING The slowdown of China s economy has captured the headlines in recent weeks.

The danger lies in debt fueled investment that shifts future demand to the present, without stimulating productivity growth. This approach inevitably leads to a growth slowdown, possibly even triggering a financial crisis like the one that recently shook the United States and Europe.

An economic slowdown in the US and Europe could substantially slow this infusion of cash, because immigrants are often the first to lose their jobs when recession fears take hold.

As European growth slows, so will inflationary pressures. So Trichet should relax, stop threatening others, and let the economic slowdown do the work for him.

Indeed, while settlement building in the West Bank has slackened, it continues.

Not all regions will necessarily have slower economic expansion in the decade ahead.

Banks began to slow their new lending, and defaults on mortgages began to rise.

Here the river slows considerably, dropping sediment that might otherwise form a river delta.

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Japan s slow growth and low interest rates over the past two decades are emblematic.

Recent reports of declining consumer confidence reinforce the likelihood that spending will slow in the months ahead.

Thus, the US slowdown affects European exports in two ways.

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Demand reduction

Demand reduction

In terms of energy use, peak demand describes a period of simultaneous, strong consumer demand or a period of highest demand in a billing period.