Sentences with phrase «weaker investment growth»

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«Persistent conflicts and their regional spillovers, security concerns, weaker - than - anticipated public investment (Afghanistan, Jordan), delays in implementation or completion of structural reforms (Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia), and political and policy uncertainty (Lebanon, Pakistan) continue to weigh on growth.

With the domestic economy too weak to maintain China's high growth rates, and with exports to the West hurting, the Communist Party in Beijing and its regional offshoots have come to rely heavily on cheap exports and debt - fuelled investment to sustain China's fragile fortunes.

In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted households.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Investment already was chronically weak because there are so few prospects for growth.

Canada has posted some of its weakest economic growth outside of a recession over the past couple of years in part because business investment sunk along with the price of oil.

Last year, and for the first time since 2001, the contribution of net exports to overall growth turned positive, but the performance of non-energy exports and investment remains weak.

In the United States, growth is flat due partly to the strong dollar; in the Euro Area, low investment, high unemployment and weak balance sheets weigh on growth; in Japan, both growth and inflation are weaker than expected.

Meanwhile, exports and investment are still weaker than one would expect at this stage of the business cycle, even though growth in the global economy has also surprised on the upside.

So when economic growth slows because of weak investment, trade slows disproportionately.

GDP growth likely stalled in the fourth quarter of 2015, pulled down by temporary softness in the U.S. economy, weaker business investment and several other temporary factors.

-- Weak investment: Both public and private investment has been subpar in recent years, with the latter feeding back negatively into productivity growth, as Larry Mishel shows — quite dramatically — here.

Recent work at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere shows that about half of the slowdown in trade growth among advanced economies in the post-crisis period can be explained by weak economic activity, especially sluggish business investment.

«In recent quarters, weaker foreign demand has dampened business investment, and low oil prices have weighed on energy - related investment, both of which have typically led to slower PDFP growth.

So, for example, I would argue that in the early stages of reform, especially in countries that have suffered many years of terrible economies and weak investment, crony capitalism can be consistent with high levels of growth because the kinds of programs that lead to growth — mostly massive investment programs in countries in which capital stock is excessively low — benefit the elites directly.

And on the way down — even as commodity prices fell sharply and mining investment declined — growth in GDP, employment and wages was only a little weaker than average.

Aging societies, weaker business capital investment and slowing productivity growth have led to a persistent decline in economic growth.

The weaker profile for business investment suggests that, in the near term, growth in potential output is more likely to be in the lower part of the Bank's range of estimates.

GDP growth was relatively weak, as was business investment (as distinct of course from housing over-investment).

As the Canadian economy contends with softer than expected exports, weak business investment and effects of the Alberta wildfires, real GDP growth in 2016 is forecast to be 1.4 per cent...

To ensure sustainable growth, it needs to reduce the dependence on exports and fixed asset investment and to increase domestic consumption — but the rate of consumption growth remains weak.

2016.06.10 Canadian economic activity erratic through 2016: RBC Economics As the Canadian economy contends with softer than expected exports, weak business investment and effects of the Alberta wildfires, real GDP growth in 2016 is forecast to be 1.4 per cent...

While insurance sector M&A has cooled off after a bumper 2015 due to what many players see as over-inflated valuations, soft insurance markets, increasing competition, higher claims and weak investment yields are putting profitability under pressure, meaning that M&A remains a possible source of growth according to Credit Suisse.

But the Chinese economic data for March — such as weaker growth in industrial output and investment - is suggesting that momentum is slowing.

-LRB-...) Russia's economic growth has been slowing amid dwindling investment, hefty capital outflows, and weak demand and low prices for its commodities exports.

«Overall growth in China is evolving broadly as envisaged, but with a faster - than - expected slowdown in imports and exports, in part reflecting weaker investment and manufacturing activity,» the IMF said.

There are several wonderful businesses in my investment portfolio where I expect future growth to be weaker than in the last decades.

In Greece's case at least, we haven't seen much wager - pinching growth, and they continue to try to increase their national savings as a percentage of their GDP to match Germany's again, and that just means there's not a lot of consumption or investment happening in the weaker parts of the Eurozone.

Since weak investment has been identified as a potential drag on productivity growth since the global financial crisis, this shift in incentives could have strong and long - lived benefits.»

The Government was able to convince Canadians in the election that making new investments and going into deficit was the right thing to do in an environment of weak economic growth.

Weak growth and insufficient public investment will force monetary policy to stay loose despite diminishing returns.

BEIJING (AP)-- China's manufacturing growth decelerated in August due to weaker global demand and a slowdown in domestic investment, two surveys showed Monday.

Natural by - products of slower potential growth are not only weaker corporate profits and dividends, but also a lower average rate of return on investments.

And now even as growth finally returns, with prices still rising faster than wages, with business investment still weak, with unemployment still rising in half the country, with bank lending to business still falling, we can't be satisfied.

In my model, growth between +2 % and -2 % essentially produces the same negative economic and social consequences - rising poverty, unemployment and inequality, low productivity, weak infrastructure, low capital investments and social and political instability!

The study also says the proposals would do little to spur economic growth «given the weak and broken linkages between household saving and domestic business investment.»

Aging societies, weaker business capital investment and slowing productivity growth have led to a persistent decline in economic growth.

The bank expects the federal investments of about $ 25 billion over the next two years to more than offset the negative consequences of a slightly stronger dollar, weaker - than - expected global growth and shrinking investment in the oil sector.

Since the GDP growth rate is reported quarterly, it is difficult for investors to make investment decisions based upon a strong or weak GDP growth rate.

«On the other hand» there are some less positive issues: China's slowing growth, falling commodity prices and weak business fixed investment in the U.S.

There are several wonderful businesses in my investment portfolio where I expect future growth to be weaker than in the last decades.

«Most U.S. natural gas basins do not generate sufficient returns to justify drilling in today's weak price environment, suggesting that the current growth pace is not sustainable in a market that is likely to see little near - term demand growth,» investment bank Credit Suisse said in a report earlier this year.

Declining growth in inventory investment and weak nonresidential investment were the primary reasons.