In the face of relatively stagnant markets, volatile prices and declining terms of trade, investment dropped further, diversification stalled and productivity remained stagnant.

And when you get stagnant water, you get mosquitoes.

And many think that these countries are stagnant, but they are not.

Income there stayed stagnant, as it zoomed ahead in the rest of the world.

On the economic front, the country is emerging from a lengthy crisis, during which its economy was stagnant.

Many influential economists are now worried that the US faces anemic growth and secular stagnation, owing to a persistent gap between aggregate demand and full employment. Stagnant middle class incomes imply weak aggregate demand, which in turn means slack labor markets and stagnant wages for most workers.

What we found is that these rooms remained relatively stagnant until Saturday, when we opened the vents up again.

However, in sub Saharan Africa and Latin America poverty reduction has been stagnant, and in Western Asia poverty has actually increased.

It was as if I was living in a stagnant pool and cancer dynamited the boulder that was separating me from the larger sea.

They were facing increased poverty, a stagnant economic situation and a slowdown in economic growth resulting from the debt crisis of the early 1980s.

Stagnant or falling real wages often coincided with rising unemployment and widening income gaps between skilled and unskilled labour (ILO, 2004 40 45 Akyuz et al, 2005).

Both in Africa and the Arab region, intraregional trade remained mostly stagnant for decades representing some 10 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively, of their trade volume.

Concerning the rest of Asia, steel consumption in India increased by 42 per cent from 1996 to 2004, while consumption in other developing countries of the region was stagnant.

But, whatever combination of events brought about his change of heart, election initiative should be welcomed. It is a necessary but insufficient first step for overhauling Egypt s stagnant political system.

Moreover, economic growth is expected to be modest in 2005 due to stagnant employment opportunities, a continued downsizing of the international presence and a decline in bilateral and multilateral assistance.

The welfare state was transformed into a system of endemic waste. A gap emerged between the economy s productive base, which remained stagnant, and Greeks expectations (and demands), which were rising fast.

Well, the thesis of The Bottom Billion is that a billion people have been stuck living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind.

It was essential that the Secretary General continued to ensure that the Organization's resources were used rationally, transparently, and responsibly but there were limits to what could be achieved with a stagnant budget.

Energy shocks contributed to a lethal combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation, and every US president since Nixon likewise has proclaimed energy independence as a goal. But few people took those promises seriously.

With uncertainty plaguing Europe s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy. But it will take strong leadership by the president elect to avoid it.

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

Yet officials blamed the US and others for the strong real. Likewise, US politicians ongoing efforts to ban currency manipulation in trade agreements may be an effort to scapegoat Asians for US workers stagnant real incomes.

The American consumer was, in effect, ground zero in this horrific crisis. Far too many US households made enormous bets on the property bubble, believing that their paper gains were permanent substitutes for stagnant labor income.

This pressure on the peripheral countries to deflate their already stagnant economies is turning into the eurozone s greatest challenge. The ECB s provision of liquidity can buy time, but only real adjustment can cure the underlying problem.

The world was getting steadily richer, but the income distribution within countries was becoming steadily more unequal. Median incomes have been stagnant or even falling for the last 30 years, even as per capita GDP has grown.

TOKYO The eurozone is facing a bleak economic outlook, with growth remaining stagnant and the threat of deflation looming large. The economist Martin Feldstein, who was skeptical of the initiative from the start, now calls it a failure.

Japan s plunge in the second quarter was blamed on a sales tax hike. Europe s stagnant growth in the second quarter has been explained away as an aberration reflecting the confluence of weather effects and sanctions imposed on Russia.

Whereas Europe s birthrate is stagnant, the Arab population is set to double in the coming decades, and the population will rise in many Asian Muslim majority countries. Christianity is also growing in odd ways and in surprising places.

Indeed, such attitudes are potentially disastrous. If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.

In the next few months, Europe s debt crisis will most likely worsen. With emerging economies (including China) slowing, and with meaningful multilateral policy coordination remaining inadequate, protectionist pressures will mount as major trading powers compete for a stagnant pie.

On the contrary, its recovery coincided with the easing of the extreme austerity imposed in 2011 13, which has encouraged households to spend more, despite stagnant wages. Even so, its economy remains 5.7 smaller than it was seven years ago.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline. Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

In the United States, since 2001 we've had five years of economic growth, five years of productivity growth in the workplace, but median wages are stagnant and the percentage of working families dropping below the poverty line is up by four percent.

Concerns have been raised about the influx of cheap labor. 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.

Income growth for the middle class in most advanced countries has been stagnant, and employment opportunities have been declining, especially in the tradable part of the economy. The share of income going to capital has been rising, at the expense of labor.

The Ifo business climate indicator, which had been rising since the second half of 2005, reached its highest level since Germany s unification boom. After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5 in 2006.

It is not easy to do this when the rich get richer enjoying their biggest spree since the Roaring Twenties and average household income remains stagnant for the third decade running. Social equity is not irrelevant even in America, the land of opportunity.

Looking to the future, growing income inequality and stagnant incomes for the majority of Americans mean weaker aggregate demand and slower growth. Even more important, income inequality constrains economic growth on the supply side through its adverse effects on educational opportunity and human capital development.

But it also has stagnant wages, busted banks, inadequate investment, weak productivity gains, dismal demographics, and anemic output growth. Its beggar thy neighbor economic model suppressing wages to subsidize exports should not serve as an example for the rest of the eurozone to follow.

Progressive economists argue that the weakening of unions in the US, together with tax policies favoring the rich, slowed middle class income growth, while traditional transfer programs were cut back. With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.

Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy. Indonesia s new democracy may be imperfect, but has thrived despite its initial poor prospects.

But don t count on a new era without some form of direct US Iran discussions. The talks with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5 1) are formulaic, stagnant, and not likely to achieve any breakthrough on their own.

In countries coming out of war or other conflicts, efforts at inclusion are futile in stagnant economies. Without both dynamism and inclusion, the path to peace will be elusive, as recent experiences in Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq, and many countries in Africa illustrate.

The experience of many commodity producers is familiar persistently tight external constraints owing to weak and volatile prices, high levels of indebtedness and stagnant or falling ODA all contributed to a weak investment dynamic and stalled diversification, perpetuating a poverty trap (UNCTAD, 2003, 2004).

Simply put, the European Union s stagnant economy is conditioning its response to the external pressures it confronts internal crisis has left EU leaders little room for maneuver. Fortunately, Europe has the means to address this crisis, if it can summon the wisdom and the political will.