The prevailing belief in a reliable tendency to return to some normal degree of inclusion has little ground to stand on. True, most recessions are reversed, just as most booms end.

Officials must be at least as vigilant about reducing expenditure and withdrawing stimulus measures during periods of growth as they are inclined to introduce such policies during downturns.

Initially, the term was used to express the opinion that the Working Group was being used to prop up the markets during downturns.

As John Maynard Keynes recognized, trade restrictions can protect or generate employment during economic recessions.

They should be the major source of IMF financing as well, replacing quota subscriptions or lending to the Fund by member countries (potentially making the IMF a purely SDR based institution, as proposed decades ago by the late IMF economist Jacques Polak).

Over most of the postwar period, this post recession release of pent up consumer demand has been a powerful source of support for economic recovery.

Though every crisis eventually ends, no one knew at the time how broad, deep, and long the ensuing recessions and depressions would be.

Governments before World War I and even more so before WWII did not embrace the mission of minimizing unemployment during economic downturns.

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Double dips, triple dips, and quadruple dips have been America s recessionary experience since WWII.

Matters were not helped when the Czech government lost a confidence vote midway through its six month presidency of the European Union, leaving a lame duck European Commission.

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Many governments increase spending excessively in booms, and then are forced to cut back in downturns, thereby exacerbating the cyclical swings.

Regardless of what the right explanation is, the history of recent recessions suggests that we should not be surprised that the job recovery is taking time.

Economic stagnation has come to appear endless.

From 1960 until 1991, recoveries from recessions in the US were typically rapid.

Economic stagnation remains a serious concern.

A local politician from the Philippines observes that a major city in the southern part of the country is somehow faring well during these distressing times

First, it would reduce the recessionary bias in the world economy, especially during crises and in their aftermath.

Discretionary consumption is typically deferred during recessions, especially for long lasting durable goods such as motor vehicles, furniture, and appliances.

But the IMF imposed strict austerity on these countries, pushing them into a prolonged depression.

We know that in periods of economic recession, youth are among the worst hit.

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Experience suggests that China s external position is highly sensitive to global conditions, with the surplus GDP ratio rising during boom times for the world economy and falling during slumps.

Previous recessions were often characterized by excess inventory accumulation and overinvestment in business equipment.

Macroeconomists celebrated the Great Moderation of the global business cycle, with recessions seeming to become milder and less frequent.

Deficit spending in a recession, he said, help s maintain the aggregate demand for goods and services.

Now, after one generation of economic and demographic stagnation, the welfare state can be financed only by issuing more public debt.

Robert S. Lopez has contended that it was a period of deep economic recession.

He found that they believed that a serious morale problem would result from reducing everyone s hours and pay during a recession.

Human rights violations are most frequent during periods of political unrest.

Governments before World War I and even more so before WWII did not embrace the mission of minimizing unemployment during economic downturns. There were three reasons, all of which vanished by the end of WWII.

Although there were periods in the intervals between one step and the next during which the momentum appeared to have been lost, the process as a whole was moved forward by the impact of each positive step following a period of stagnation.

If this proposal were actually implemented, it would have the effect of turning small recessions into major economic downturns.

But periods of global economic expansion have virtually always been characterized by symbiotic imbalances.

This occurs naturally when atrophy takes place, or during periods of starvation.

Families often lose members during their most productive time of life.

Moreover, interest rates tend to decline in a recession, even if there is no central bank, stimulating investment demand further.

All the other G 7 economies (Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, and the United Kingdom) experienced severe recessions as well during this period.

It may be too late to avoid a recession in the advanced countries and a slowdown in emerging and low income countries.

They should include more peacebuilding activities, particularly during protracted conflicts.

In his masterpiece A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 1960 (written with Anna Schwartz), he famously attributed recessions, including the Great Depression of the 1930 s, to a decline in the money supply.

These are essential human rights, and they can be realized only through economic growth, not stagnation.

Such industrial mismatches become larger during recessions, reflecting greater churn in the labor market as workers move between shrinking and expanding sectors but they decline as the economy recovers.

What we're seeing with consumers right now is the ability for them to actually lead us forward out of this recession.