Yet US economic growth remains sluggish, and is accompanied by stubbornly high unemployment.

Of course, exports have also slowed, given sluggish growth in the rest of the world.

Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy s sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.

After all, a currency can appreciate while an economy is sluggish, or depreciate despite robust growth.

Moreover, its economic performance has been relatively sluggish, with a growth rate of just 2.3 last year.

Otherwise, the wrong policies and, with them, anemic GDP growth and sluggish job creation will continue to prevail.

As a result, productivity growth is slowing, and, though capital seems cheap and profits plentiful, investment remains sluggish.

Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, economic growth remains sluggish, and unemployment is stuck at a worrisomely high level.

The world s largest economy, the United States, expanded by 3.2 , and growth also recovered in previously sluggish Japan and Europe.

The combination of loose fiscal policy and tight monetary policy will mean high interest rates, sluggish investment, and slow growth.

To be sure, Europe, with its sluggish growth, feels less rich than in the past, when the earlier accession deals were negotiated.

Worse, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, sluggish growth and high unemployment in developed countries have fueled demands for more protectionism.

But there are stranger aspects to Japan s sluggish economy.

It is more reassuring and feels better to tell Europeans that growth is sluggish because society is not sufficiently knowledge based, rather than pointing to the trade off between vacations and growth.

With a baseline scenario of recession or sluggish growth amid budget austerity for years ahead, Portugal will likely seek help sooner rather than later.

After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.

This raises the question of whether Japan s current problems sluggish growth, high public debt, and rapid population aging presage a similar trend across East Asia.

The Bank of England has warned economic growth will remain sluggish as it kept interest rates on hold amid a tightening squeeze on family incomes.

Tom's a night owl, but he's very sluggish in the morning.

Now, however, closer economic integration means that sluggish growth in China and India will reduce job opportunities and slow the rate of poverty reduction throughout the region.

She has yet to deal with the major problems of the day financial instability, Europe s sluggish growth, the Middle East and she cannot avoid them during her campaign.

She has yet to deal with the major problems of the day financial instability, Europe s sluggish growth, the Middle East and she cannot avoid them during her campaign.

This year, however, output is expected to rise by a relatively sluggish 5.9 .

This the effects of government policies on incentives rather than basic cultural differences or weak financial institutions, is at the root of the sluggish growth seen in some advanced economies.

But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.

Given the movements in the euro s exchange rate in previous months and sluggish growth in the euro area, we expected that inflation rates would decline, but only to levels close to 2 .

The Fed, of course, has been forced to turn to QE, as traders call it, because its normal tool for fine tuning inflation and growth, the overnight interest rate, is already zero. Yet US economic growth remains sluggish, and is accompanied by stubbornly high unemployment.

But much of this discussion is merely a form of political correctness. It is more reassuring and feels better to tell Europeans that growth is sluggish because society is not sufficiently knowledge based, rather than pointing to the trade off between vacations and growth.

Already facing sluggish growth before fiscal austerity set in, the so called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) face the prospect of a lost decade much as Latin America experienced in the 1980 s.

Compared with the region s mostly sluggish performance over the last three decades, this looks like takeoff velocity.

Growth

At the same time, Ukrainian journalists are very sluggish and don't cover events in the East of Ukraine very much.

The narrow view of the catastrophe s economic impact is that Japan doesn t really matter anymore. After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.

This raises the question of whether Japan s current problems sluggish growth, high public debt, and rapid population aging presage a similar trend across East Asia. Similar problems are already appearing in South Korea, while China has been driven to loosen its one child policy and unveil plans for economic reforms aimed at reviving growth.

Already facing sluggish growth before fiscal austerity set in, the so called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) face the prospect of a lost decade much as Latin America experienced in the 1980 s. Latin America s rebirth and modern growth dynamic really only began to unfold after the 1987 Brady plan orchestrated massive debt write downs across the region.

Austere Growth?

Sluggish progress may be unacceptable, but outsiders must recognize that the CCP must balance the imperatives of progress against mushrooming social unrest.

Given the sluggish recovery, Bernanke could have gone even further and argued that the Fed is the one who has it right.

In other words, economic growth should be viewed as growth in wealth, not growth in GNP.

Missing Growth Multipliers

Making Growth Green

Poverty versus Growth

China s Growth Challenge

India s Growth Crossroads

Risky Growth Engines