Definition of «economic threat»

An economic threat refers to any situation or event that has the potential to negatively impact an economy, either locally, nationally or globally. This can include things like recessions, inflation, high unemployment rates, natural disasters, political instability, trade wars and other factors that can cause uncertainty in financial markets, reduce consumer spending, decrease investment, lower economic growth, increase debt levels, and generally lead to a decline in the overall well-being of an economy. Economic threats are often monitored closely by governments, central banks, businesses and individuals as they can have significant consequences for people's livelihoods, financial stability, and long term economic prospects.

Sentences with «economic threat»

Only after the study of the 1997 extreme haze event in Southeast Asia, the scientific community recognized the environmental and economic threats posed by subsurface fires. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Because working class support for UKIP has been thought of in terms of the threat to wages and jobs posed by immigration as well as more general concerns about cultural change and, of course, the EU itself, we included measures of cultural and economic threat as well as voting intention in a Euro referendum in statistical models of UKIP voting. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Credit counselling expert says with debt loads at a record and little in the way of savings, Canadians may be «caught off guard» if economic threats materialize (business.financialpost.com)
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