U.S. stock futures point to a lower open Tuesday after poor growth figures out of Europe.
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They say the labour trends are hard to square with other statistics, logging decidedly poor growth performances in key sectors such as construction and finance.
Since then, the Swiss franc - a popular haven for investors worried by poor growth prospects in the US and Europe - has strengthened even further.
Though much of the increase in risk can be attributed to dry international capital markets, low investor tolerance for risk and poor growth prospects in developed markets, this does not exonerate Mr da Silva or the rest of them.
And since the main macroeconomic factor which affects the comparative attractiveness of stocks and bonds is growth, equity risk premiums are largely a measure of how much risk investors think there is of poor economic growth in the future.
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Those expectations are awfully high for a company with a poor profit growth track record.
It was equally anticipated given the recent signs that the economy may be slipping into recession, signs that include poor job growth and a pull back in manufacturing output.
Third, high Mexican birth rates and poor economic growth, especially in the late 1970s and 1980s, began to push large numbers of migrants north into the U.S. labor markets.
It is the combination of poor productivity growth and rising wages that has caused Italy's unit labour costs to rise so much faster than those in other euro members in the seven years since the euro started.
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If that interpretation is correct, then the recent rally should be short-lived as investors once more start to focus on the poor outlook for growth.
And, as the World Bank itself acknowledged in its report on the quality of growth, poor people in developing countries need more than just money - to benefit from any growth that occurs, they need more access to jobs and education, and less discrimination and corruption.
Faster growth in poor countries is therefore more likely to increase the output of their richer counterparts than to reduce it.
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But Brazil, in turn, will not be able to match China's record in reducing the number of poor people without higher growth.
Latin America's overall record of productivity growth is poor, thanks to a toxic mixture of burdensome regulation, a large informal economy and a lack of innovation.
In the U.S. a lack of job growth and poor home sales data confirm that the recent strength in the home market was a function of the U.S. stimulus.
Another brake on productivity growth is poor transport infrastructure.
The best kind of U.S. aid, like most of the work of the MCC, seeks to build economic growth in poor countries by strengthening health care, education, and governmental and physical infrastructure.
Waste and lower growth because of poor tax policy will only make the fiscal hole harder to fill.
Do the poor care about the overall growth rate of the Angolan economy?
The other three have posted below-par earnings growth or generated poor returns for investors or both since 2000 (see table).
Of course, the ultimate aim of expanding energy access is to spur economic growth and allow poor countries to become richer.
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Its taxes are high, education is poor, and its rapid growth in real wages is outstripping productivity in almost all sectors.
Ironically, when a company is very successful and sales increase dramatically, the chances of it having a pipeline to support sustained growth are pretty poor.
Interestingly, when Mr Bartels looks at the real post-tax income growth of the poor (defined as those at the 20th percentile of earnings), the picture looks rather different.
Faster economic growth would help poor countries solve those problems.
And measures can and should be taken to ensure that the future economic growth of the poor world, if that happy outcome occurs, does not unduly exacerbate the problem of global warming.
The May unemployment report from the U.S. Department of Labor was weaker than expected, even as market watchers braced themselves for smaller job growth after a poor report from payroll firm ADP earlier this week.
If real compensation growth for the poor can be sustained at just 2% a year, after just 20 years their real incomes will increase by 50%, and after 40 years their incomes will more than double.
This week alone saw a bankruptcy filing from a New York-based toy retailer, FAO Schwarz, more store closures and 37, 000 job losses at a bankrupt discount retailer, Kmart, and poor same-store sales growth from Sainsbury's itself.
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Sustained, rapid economic growth is also the ultimate solution to poverty, as after a couple of decades or so of such growth, the poor would climb to the same living standards as the middle class of today.
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