Word: slowdowns
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...UNHCR last year cared for 25.1 million refugees and internally displaced people. That is the highest level of need ever recorded in the agency's 57-year history - 10% more than in 2006 - and the upward trend is bound to continue. "We're worried about how the economic slowdown, rising food prices and climate change are creating a new pattern of forced displacement," Guterres, a former Portuguese Prime Minister who took the helm of the UNHCR in 2005, told TIME. "The number of people on the move will increase...
...Utah Breaking the Beer Barrier Amid a national economic slowdown, Utah is quietly attracting residents and tourists with such growing industries as biotech and outdoor recreation. To make the state more "user friendly," Governor Jon Huntsman wants to relax the laws that prohibit serving liquor or high-alcohol beer outside private clubs or eateries. Public hearings begin this month...
...Among the many consequences of the productivity slowdown was a further complication for the monetary policy makers of the 1970s. Detecting shifts in economic trends is difficult in real time, and most economists and policymakers did not fully appreciate the extent of the productivity slowdown until the late 1970s. This further influenced the policymakers of the time toward running a monetary policy that was too accommodative. The resulting overheating of the economy probably exacerbated the inflation problem of that decade.9
...economic consequences have been quite different from those of the 1970s. One obvious difference is what you don't see: drivers lining up on odd or even days to buy gasoline because of price controls or signs at gas stations that say "No gas." And until the recent slowdown--which is more the result of conditions in the residential housing market and in financial markets than of higher oil prices--economic growth was solid and unemployment remained low, unlike what we saw following oil price increases...
...Just as the productivity slowdown was associated with a slower growth of real per capita income, the productivity resurgence since the mid-1990s has been accompanied by a pickup in real income growth. One measure of average living standards, real consumption per capita, is nearly 35 percent higher today than in 1995. In addition, the flood of innovation that helped spur the productivity resurgence has created many new job opportunities, and more than a few fortunes. But changing technology has also reduced job opportunities for some others--bank tellers and assembly-line workers, for example. And that is the crux...