Sentences with phrase «by slow income growth»

Rental housing markets are challenged, however, by slow income growth that weakens the ability of renter household to pay for rising rents.

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«The first quarter's slowdown was led by consumers, whose incomes are under pressure from slowing employment and wage growth as well as rising inflation.

For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

PBO is forecasting much stronger growth in personal income and therefore higher personal income tax revenues offset to some extent by slower growth in corporate profits and thereafter lower corporate income tax revenues.

This model boosts savings by encouraging wage constraint and other mechanisms that slow growth in household income relative to overall growth.

The speed with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher household income and consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government - related debt.

The city is seeing slower growth in its revenue from personal income tax and taxes on real estate transactions, though it's been offset by strong property tax receipts.

To give some under - reported examples of his recklessness: Raising the income tax allowance threshold to # 10,000 combined with slow wage growth has seen income tax receipts plummet by billions.

The increase in the debt - to - income ratio is the result of income growth which slowed even more and a decline in disposable income brought on by lower investment earnings and higher taxes.

The bank said in November it would cut expenses by about 2 billion crowns from 2012 - 14, axing 2,000 jobs in the process, after quarterly profit was wiped out by a drop in trading income, becoming the latest Nordic lender to combat slowing revenue growth and higher funding costs.

The bank still expects growth to resume in the latter half of the year, led by business investments and household spending, but warned that investment and consumption growth will slow due to less wealth and lower income.

«Our analysis shows that Americans will pay significantly more for electricity, see slower economic growth and fewer jobs, and have less disposable income, while a slight reduction in carbon emissions will be overwhelmed by global increases.»

Couche - Tard, which is grappling with slowing same - store merchandise sales, has blamed «anemic» real - wage growth for the struggles of its lower - income customers, while also citing fewer visits by Hispanics.

However, TD Economics says slowing population growth will be offset by rising home ownership rates, rising personal income, a lower long - term rate of unemployment and more modest construction of new homes.

Canada's housing affordability improved slightly in the third quarter of 2005 due to faster income growth in tightening labour markets and slower house price increases, says the latest Housing Affordability Index released by RBC Economics.

Axiometrics forecasts short - term slowing in apartment appreciation or capital returns, with moderate growth in income returns, followed by normalizing total returns after 2018.

The study, conducted for NAR by Wade R. Ragas, professor of finance with the University of New Orleans Real Estate Market Data Center, shows that slow job growth and modest wages have worsened affordability problems for the area's low - and moderate - income households.