The Romanian economy has continued to shrink at the rate of five to eight per cent a year, and the government is now trying to find ways of avoiding defaulting on its debts.
Singapore is currently seeing its economy shrink at an annual rate of 10%.
As the country gets richer and its working-age population starts to shrink, that growth rate is likely to tail off to perhaps 8% soon.
If you gain five pounds a year, every year, your "rate of growth" will steadily shrink, too.
Onyx has data showing that Sorafenib slows tumor growth, compared with a placebo, but in late-stage trials only 2% of patients had their tumors shrink enough to be counted in the response rate.
The share buyback expansion seems unlikely to shrink the current cash balance at all given the rate of cash generation.
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There are other ways to shrink the gap between Germany's high savings rate and relatively low investment, the underlying reason for its current-account surplus.
Mr. Sarkozy was elected in 2007 on the promise that he would energize France's economy, shrink its large public sector and halve the unemployment rate to 5%.
After-tax incomes of the top 1 percent would shrink by 9.6 percent compared to 17.2 percent with a rate hike.
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Alternatively, if we were to triple the corporate tax rate, our paltry 5 percent domestic investment rate (It was 15 percent in 1950.) would surely shrink to zero.
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By contrast, a sustained period of 4% growth would do far more to narrow the deficit and shrink the federal government as a share of GDP than any combination of tax rate increases and spending cuts being proposed by either party.
Civic Platform has promoted a single rate of 15% for value-added tax and income tax, wants to shrink government and favours faster privatisation of the state's remaining assets.
China's growth rate is bound to slow in coming years as its working-age population starts to shrink and productivity growth declines.
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