Sentences with phrase «of the stagnant growth in»

A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University's Robert Siegler found that 5th graders» understanding of fractions and division predicted high school students» knowledge of algebra and overall math achievement and that U. S. students» inadequate knowledge of fractions and division is a major source of the stagnant growth in the subject.

Not exact matches

Investors have piled back into the market in response to the adoption of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's radical economic policies — coined «Abenomics» — which have fueled hope the world's third largest economy may be hauling itself out of a decade of stagnant economic growth.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Prices have been slow to rise, and wage growth stagnant for several years, though both began to show signs of life in recent months.

Despite this growth, innovation in events has been stagnant, and the industry has only recently begun to engage with new technologies to help meet the demand of a more tech savvy event goer.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

Stagflation: The combination of stagnant growth and high inflation, a situation that occurred in the United States during the 1970s.

After years of stagnant results, 3M posted 5.2 % organic local currency growth in 2017, and in 2018 management is projecting 3 % to 5 % organic local currency growth.

As the graph above indicates, leading small and mid-cap growth stocks have pretty much remained stagnant, despite the rally in the broad market of the past few days.

Over the past two years, when the economy was totally stagnant, and when our economy has needed a quick and fast - acting shot in the arm, we have advocated a temporary VAT cut — alongside infrastructure spending, action on youth unemployment and targeted tax measures for business as part of our five point plan for growth.

«Years of decreasing, stagnant or slow economic growth have led local governments to cut vital services and tap their rainy day funds to balance budgets, a practice that is not sustainable in the long term,» the comptroller said.

«A projected property tax cap growth at basically zero in 2017, combined with stagnant sales tax revenues, counties will not be able keep up with the rising costs of state mandated programs provided at the local level.

He cited the banking collapse and recession, together with the effect of the coalition's deficit reduction agenda, as reasons for stagnant growth in the last nine months.

Describing Ghana's agriculture as stagnant or at best sluggish, Dr Akoto said growth in the sector declined from 7.4 per cent in 2008 to 7.2 per cent in 2009, slowing down to 5.2 per cent in 2010 and hitting a bottom of 0.8 per cent in 2011.

The report also shows that growth in the number of research articles by Americans has been stagnant compared with an increasing number written by Western Europeans in the last decade.

With the rate of growth in federal research spending essentially stagnant, universities hoping to profit from some of the bright ideas of their faculty must pay more attention than ever to developing partnerships with industry, a top University of Virginia official said recently at AAAS.

The sales halt will also cause a major blow to the company, which has been struggling with stagnant growth of its mobile business in recent quarters.

But if it becomes stagnant, like in a pond, then it, of course, does foster bacterial growth.

District and campus leaders set out to address a lack of student growth in middle school math performance, insufficient readiness for Algebra I, and a deep - seated apathy toward math as demonstrated by stagnant student growth on state assessments, local benchmarks, and student survey data.

It is increasingly apparent that the global central banks are in the process (desperately one suspects) to reflate their respective economies out of stagnant or no growth.

And in a world of anaemic GDP growth & stagnant consumer incomes, stocks which offer the promise of predictable and / or accelerated growth can be priced even more stratospherically.

As long as economic growth in Europe is stagnant, there will be plenty of people willing to work for low wages in order to have a job and perhaps travel benefits, if in fact the likes of Norwegian Air and Ryanair offer that particular perk.

Living standards of the rich and poor were stagnant worldwide from Roman times until the advent of the Industrial revolution in England in the 18th C, since when there has been enormous growth due to Western capitalism and trade, with billions of people coming out of poverty in the last 60 years.

There are three likely suspects: (1) cheap natural gas; (2) the growth of subsidized wind generation in the American Midwest; and (3) stagnant or declining demand for electricity.

While the vast majority of utilities still make money predominantly in the traditional way — rate basing capital investments and earning a return — stagnant load growth, DER proliferation and regulatory pressures are encouraging them to look at new revenue streams.

Organic food now accounts for more than five percent of total food sales in the U.S. Organic food sales increased by 8.4 percent from last year, blowing past the stagnant 0.6 percent growth rate in the overall food market.

She cited lower female enrollment in law schools, lack of women in law firm leadership positions, and stagnant growth in the ranks of women in the judiciary.

In his address George posited professional services firms are now in the mature stage of their industries» life cycles, as evidenced by stagnant growth in demand, hyper - competition, clients increasingly exerting their buying power, falling prices, and the emergence of alternative business modelIn his address George posited professional services firms are now in the mature stage of their industries» life cycles, as evidenced by stagnant growth in demand, hyper - competition, clients increasingly exerting their buying power, falling prices, and the emergence of alternative business modelin the mature stage of their industries» life cycles, as evidenced by stagnant growth in demand, hyper - competition, clients increasingly exerting their buying power, falling prices, and the emergence of alternative business modelin demand, hyper - competition, clients increasingly exerting their buying power, falling prices, and the emergence of alternative business models.

With stagnant growth in its other core business segments, the surging GPU sales fueled a 26 percent year - over-year increase to a total revenue of $ 1.64 billion, making it the company's highest - grossing quarter since 2011.

Litecoin: Litecoin after experiencing stagnant growth over the past few months is currently on track to be one of the best performing altcoins in the top 10 categories based on coin market cap.

However, with this growth comes new challenges in the form of a mismatch of talent with the skills business needs, further wage inflation and stagnant employee productivity.

Tucson's job growth remained relatively stagnant the past five years with median household income in the metro area 15.5 % below that of the U. S. Several recent, high - profile jobs announcements included hundreds of highly - skilled and highly - compensated positions.