Post conflict economic recovery is a slow process.

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

24. The economy of the Republic of Croatia is slowly recovering from the war years.

This trend of employment in the public sector can be explained by the slow recovery of industry and the simultaneous growth of the country's administration after the war.

Official development assistance is growing extremely slowly.

Slow, steady movement forward seems to be under way.

The deployment of UNMIS military elements has progressed slowly but steadily.

But the recoveries from the recessions of 1991 and 2001 were different. For example, in 2001, it took just one quarter for output to recover, but 38 months for jobs to come back.

With competition weak, entrepreneurs did not rush to hire the unemployed. When recovery began, political unrest last fall nipped confidence in the bud.

Another problem is the slowness in donor disbursement procedures for rehabilitation and recovery.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, economic growth remained low and volatile, although there was a recovery in 2004 and the outlook for 2005 looks positive.

Regarding the tsunami and Nias disaster, delegations expressed concern at the slow progress of school reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and North Sumatra.

Median household income has barely begun to recover, and is still well below its 2000 level. This is because most of the gains from economic recovery have gone to people at the top of the income distribution.

Because what the facts are telling us is that the long, slow journey, humanity's long, slow journey of equality, is actually speeding up.

But, as Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have long documented, post crisis healing is typically slow and painful. Notwithstanding the Fed s claims that its unconventional policies have been the elixir of economic renewal in the US, the healing process still has years to go.

The United States economy is gradually reviving, albeit slowly by the standards of recovery from a deep recession. China, Brazil, and India have not decoupled from their customers in Europe and North America, and so are slowing, though a relatively soft landing is likely if Europe s recession is as short and mild as predicted.

The National Transitional Government of Liberia made slow progress in restoring administration throughout the country.

Progress has been slow.

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Keynes called this the paradox of thrift saving slows down recovery.

As we can see, the progress made by my country is real, even if its pace is still slow too slow, given the acute needs and problems that exist.

OIOS found that the slow response from some Member States was usually a delaying factor in deploying military observers to the field.

The work on an agenda for development had been seriously delayed, and that delay could become more pronounced.

The rehabilitation of the country's economy is progressing.

I was peddling my eggbeaters and business was a little slow.

Reduction of the maternal mortality rate has been slow in improving.

Change happens slowly.

But it is so slow.

How slow all of a sudden.

The second explanation was that the slow recovery was part of a longer term trend, attributable to secular stagnation or a dearth of important technological innovations. It is true that productivity growth and labor force growth have slowed since 1975.

Nevertheless, before rushing to judgment about current policy, we should recognize the trend in recent US recoveries of slow job growth. From 1960 until 1991, recoveries from recessions in the US were typically rapid.

The unemployment rate remains about two percentage points higher than what most economists consider consistent with a full recovery, and the labor force participation rate is hovering near historic lows. The economy is still operating far below its potential GDP is about 6 below what the economy is capable of producing at full capacity without higher inflation.

24. Despite difficulties of all types, the Haitian Government s efforts to reform the judicial system are slowly proceeding.

Judging from the over all situation, since the international economy is under deep adjustment, its recovery is relatively slow, which will bring about a large pressure on China's import including the import of Liaoning province.

Nevertheless, small pockets are emerging which, against the odds, show signs of economic growth and are making a slow and painful transition from crisis to recovery.

They were going very slowly.

The funds have been slow in coming.

I prefer a slow encirclement.

Her breathing's still short.

Slow is a dirty word in our culture.

The slow progress was no doubt due to the complexity of the topic, and the Commission should redouble its efforts.

Reinhart and Rogoff offer a couple of reasons for the difference in recovery rates the slow policy response to the Great Depression and the gold standard, which meant that individual countries could not export their way out of depression. In other words, fiscal policy and the monetary policy regime have a decisive influence both on the depth of the collapse and how long before the economy recovers.

This is certainly true for countries that are slowly building democratic institutions.

I don't mind. A change would do you good.

It grows very slowly.