Sentences with phrase «slow population growth as»

Before Hinchey's retirement announcement, it looked like two freshmen Central New York Republicans — Ann Marie Buerkle and Richard Hanna — would likely end up in a primary battle when state lawmakers finished redrawing the House lines and removing two seats — a move made necessary by New York's slow population growth as compared to other states.

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The structural deficit will subsequently grow larger as a result of slowing potential economic growth and pressures on program expenses resulting from an ageing population.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

This is because population growth is slowing as the positive impact of the post-war baby boom is mostly behind us now.

Canada faces a deep long - term fiscal challenge, as its population ages and its labour force growth slows, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

Many countries in Central Europe, as well as China, South Korea and Taiwan, are still classified as «developing» but have actually reached middle - income status, with aging populations and slower long - term growth prospects.

As it happens, Ehrlich's predictions were entirely incorrect: Not only has increased food production reduced famine to a weapon of political conflict, but the world's population growth has slowed to a crawl.

The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.

«The prospects for slower store rollout in the UK should be considered as population growth slows and GDP growth drops.»

Citigroup's head of research Craig Woolford says Homebase is likely to experience weaker demand as population growth and GDP growth slow in the UK.

However, the two sides can not agree on elimination of a second seat, as required by New York's slow population growth over the past 10 years relative to the other states.

In their favoured scenario, they concluded that «ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roads, railways, fertiliser use, and urbanisation will peak around 2030 with slowing population growth» — as will Chinese CO2 emissions.

But journalist Mara Hvistendahl says that in the 1960s and 1970s, some Western scientists actually supported selective abortion as a way to slow population growth.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

As population growth slows, government entitlements will prove difficult to maintain at current levels.

So, if the market sentiment decides it doesn't like a few factors, such as a decision to follow a divergent monetary policy, continued slow global economic growth, a world - wide aging population, and the swearing in of Donald Trump as the next American President, we could be see a rise in bond rates, which will absolutely start to increase fixed - rate mortgage rates.

I do think its very desirable environmentally that birth rates be as low as possible (2 children families at most maybe), population growth rates slow, and global poplulation falls in absolute numbers.

Scientists long feared a great population boom that would stress food production, but population growth is slowing and should plateau by 2050 as family size in almost all poorer countries falls to roughly 2.2 children per family.

What puzzles me is that population growth is seldom mentioned as one of the ways to slow future energy consumption, and it probably won't be an issue in Bali.

What we need to be careful of is thinking that a majority of our fellow humans agree with us on such crucial issues as the need to slow or even reverse population growth or the need to decrease our use of fossil fuels.

In fact the historic increase in CO2 emissions has been much slower than the increase in GDP (and slower than the population growth rate, as well, as pointed out above).

• global emissions from fossil fuels are reduce by 50 % in 50 years • Due in part to lower cost energy, the world will be much richer than current projections suggest; as a result, population growth rate slows to the low end of projections.

While, many may applaud the near anemic growth rates, as a sign that the world's population growth will slow, for economists this growth level is ominous.

If «human population growth» slows down to one - fourth the past rate, it is idiotic to blindly assume (as you have done) that human - emitted CO2 will NOT slow down.

A less coercive policy would probably have slowed China's population growth just as much, if not more — as it did that of other countries in Asia.

Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation.

«The question remains as to whether drought would have exacerbated the refugee situation in East Africa had there been slower expansion of population, positive economic growth and more stable political regimes in the region,» said Erin Owain, first author of the study.

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

As more and more cities grow and reach a level of what I would call «UHI saturation», the slow growth of big cities and smaller in absolute values UHI increase for cities from a certain size explains a smaller delta UHI for an urban group that contains cities, in comparison with a UHI contaminated average containing many small locations growing — consistent with the results from the BEST study — divergence appearing in the 1950s — and with the logarithmic dependency of UHI growing trend based on population.

So not only is the population growth slowing, it is rapidly slowing and the stabilisation figure according to Chamie will be above 9 billion by the end of the 21st century (not the 22nd century as thought in 2000).

Yes, the country's phenomenal growth of the previous two decades has slowed, but this point was inevitable; the economy, once it had reached such a size and its working age population had peaked, as it did in 2012, growth couldn't continue at the same pace.

Although there are some concerns that Brazil's growth is slowing, the country has seen high economic growth over recent years as well as a substantial increase in its middle class population.

Although household formation has slowed as young adults postpone real estate decisions, and immigration slows, the report projects population growth alone will create demand for 1 million new homes a year during the coming decade.

«Immigration has been the dominant source of household formation since the early 1990s, a trend that will accelerate over the coming decade as the rate of natural population growth continues to slow.»

Multifamily development is not slowing down across the metro, as population growth and a thriving job market continue to fuel apartment demand.