Sentences with phrase «drag on economic growth in»

The International Monetary Fund is the latest voice to suggest high household debt will act as a drag on economic growth in the years ahead.

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Spending by oil companies fell sharply as oil plunged below $ 30 a barrel in 2016, dragging on U.S. economic growth.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

It is in fact a drag on economic growth.

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

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My thesis going into May is that the SPOOS are struggling in spite of enhanced earnings as short - term interest rates in the U.S. are perceived to be a drag on future earnings and possibly economic growth.

Investment, which accounts for about half of China's economic output, was a major drag on growth in the fourth quarter, a result of monetary authorities making credit more expensive.

Some of these countries are now even challenging the emissions trading scheme in court because they claim its demands constitute a drag on economic growth.

Poorly educated men and women, on the other hand, are left out of the growth, and also drag down economic growth even for those who are better - educated, because they must subsist in order to survive.