Sentences with phrase «end of economic growth»

We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's ecosystems and resources.

Energy return on investment, peak oil, and the end of economic growth in «Ecological Economics Reviews.»

Energy return on investment, peak oil, and the end of economic growth David J. Murphy and Charles A. S. Hall

It's the end of economic growth that will really get our attention.

We're at the end of economic growth as we know it.

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They were headed for $ 1.40 per litre back in 2012 when the author of The End of Growth published his warning that the high price of oil would soon halt the economic expansion we had taken for granted for decades.

The End of Growth, his new book, continues his argument that oil is the single most important factor guiding global economic progress, or lack thereof.

That's why a brightening economic picture in 2013 (U.S. GDP grew by an average of 3.4 % in the second half of 2013 and job growth was the highest since the end of the recession) helped improve TravelCenters» performance and stock last year.

Debt has grown 30 % since the end of 2010 alone, after a huge government stimulus package had already boosted the figure, as officials struggled to meet economic growth targets in 2014 and 2015.

«But let's face it, at the end of the day, with weak economic growth they all want their currencies to weaken and not all of them can do that.»

Although the National Bureau of Economic Research officially called an end to the Great Recession in mid-2009, the years that followed were characterized by slow and uneven growth, with some analysts using the term «jobless recovery» to describe economic conEconomic Research officially called an end to the Great Recession in mid-2009, the years that followed were characterized by slow and uneven growth, with some analysts using the term «jobless recovery» to describe economic coneconomic conditions.

Commentary: «Boston Scientific's earnings performance remains strong, despite very challenging global economic and end - market conditions that adversely impacted revenue... Achieved double digit sales growth in the three largest emerging markets of Brazil, India and China.»

Part of this growth is temporary, related to the measures in the Economic Action Plan, with the result that the employment levels should decline once the stimulus measures terminate at the end of 2011 - 12.

Economists are expecting US economic growth to drop sharply in the just - ended 4 th quarter, rebounding through the first half of the year until it begins to expand in the 3 rd quarter of this year.

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

Since the end of the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis, lackluster economic growth and deflationary pressures have forced many central banks to confront the limitations of conventional monetary policy.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

The Aussie will decline to 72 US cents by year - end as restrained economic growth and inflation mean the Reserve Bank of Australia will take a «few years» to catch up with the Federal Reserve in raising borrowing costs, said Philip Moffitt, Asia - Pacific head of fixed income in Sydney at the firm, which oversees more than $ US1 trillion.

Those interest rates had been 0 % from 2006 through the end of 2015 as the Fed tried to stimulate economic growth by making it easier to receive a loan.

Preliminary national accounts estimates for 2012 will be released at the end of February and will likely show lower - than - expected economic growth for 2012.

The 5 - year limitation on the student loan interest deduction was temporarily repealed by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA, P.L. 107 - 16) through the end of 2012.

N.B.: Once the impact of the sequester wears off, which we think will occur at the end of this year, both economic growth and jobs growth will accelerate.

I hoped that this wouldn't happen, because the longer reported GDP growth remained high, the worse for China's economy over the medium to long term, but in the end the pace of adjustment was always going to be driven by political variables, not economic variables, and this made it very hard to project with much confidence.

Since the end of quantitative easing in the U.S. in October 2014, lackluster global economic growth and a marked divergence among central bank policies has led to a difference in the real and forecast interest rates in one country versus another.

I was just wondering what your thoughts are on Jeff Rubin's take on all things «Oily» and «Economic», specifically re his books «Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot Smaller» (2009) and «The End of Growth» (2012)?

Combining fiscal prudence with investments in economic growth, we will end the Harper legacy of chronic deficits and reduce Canada's federal debt - to - GDP ratio each year.

Economic growth in Canada is expected to average 2.1 per cent in 2015 and 2.4 per cent in 2016, with a return to full capacity around the end of 2016.

Below, you can see how dramatically all debt in the U.S., both public and private, has been allowed to soar past economic growth since the end of the gold standard.

It's worth noting we are getting into the later stages of this particular economic cycle in the United States, but we don't necessarily see any end to the growth in the near term.

For the rest of 2018, we expect continued global economic growth and corporate earnings, and the end of secular stagnation.

With economic growth returning to the developed world, the end of years of quantitative easing and easy monetary policy is in view; inflation concerns are reviving, guaranteeing rising interest rates along with tightening liquidity.

«Government spending on infrastructure and a moderate increase in business investment, which began to recover in 2017, are forecast to support economic growth next year,» RBC noted in its end - of - year forecast.

With a couple notable exceptions, the consensus on the street appears to be that the single currency will rise to 1.25 or 1.30 against the greenback by the end of the year, supported by accelerating economic growth in the Eurozone and an end to the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing program.

By the end of this decade, many forecasters believe we will see greater economic growth coming from a combined India, China, Brazil and Russia, than from the established economies of the US, Canada and Europe.

The trigger should also be large enough to ultimately cover any revenue that does not end up materializing as a result of economic growth or other factors.

This path is predicated on the assumption that even as the labor market reaches full employment, the pace of economic growth will remain moderate, and inflation will not reach the Fed's 2 % target before end - 2017.

I mentioned above that the IMF released its World Economic Outlook and has downgraded growth expectations based on Japan, the Euro Zone, and most Emerging Markets slowing while the pace of growth in the United States is generally positive, but questionable as Quantitative Easing is set to end.

Additionally, they claim the Federal Reserve's new restrictive monetary policy will continue to impede economic growth well into the end of this decade.

If ending Federal stimulus moderates the pace of economic growth, inflation fears will ease and long - term interest rates will edge back down, Hunt says.

Overall, the compensation picture remained at the better end of experience in this recovery, but historically weak for periods of economic growth and recovery.

In their February 2015 paper entitled «The End - of - the - year Effect: Global Economic Growth and Expected Returns Around the World», Stig Møller and Jesper Rangvid examine relationships between level of global economic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of the yeEnd - of - the - year Effect: Global Economic Growth and Expected Returns Around the World», Stig Møller and Jesper Rangvid examine relationships between level of global economic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of tEconomic Growth and Expected Returns Around the World», Stig Møller and Jesper Rangvid examine relationships between level of global economic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of theGrowth and Expected Returns Around the World», Stig Møller and Jesper Rangvid examine relationships between level of global economic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of teconomic growth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of thegrowth and future asset class returns, focusing on growth at the end of thegrowth at the end of the yeend of the year.

And if the final data does end up showing a drop in global carbon emissions, it will be the first time Co2 levels have dropped during a period of strong economic growth.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

They succeeded in ending Catholic domination in much of northern Europe and provided the foundation for a remarkable growth of free thought, free economic activity, political democracy, and modernization.

The Indian economist Amartya Sen notes, moreover, that the growth in per capita income has been about one - third greater in countries at the bottom of the economic heap than those at the high end, and that the figures would be even higher if sub-Saharan Africa were excluded.

A third reason for questioning economic growth is that as a means to an end, green republicans focus on the threshold beyond which the pursuit of economic growth does not add to human flourishing, or a healthy democratic polity, and associated forms of active citizenship and the civic fabric of a free society.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

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