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...TIME board recognized that Pacific prosperity is closely linked to the U.S. economic expansion. Growth in Western Europe and most other parts of the world is still sluggish. Said Lawrence Krause, a senior fellow at the Brookings...
...country's trading partners think that the Japanese should spend their surplus by sharply boosting imports. But Japan's demand for foreign goods continues to be sluggish, partly because its people are notoriously thrifty, saving about 15% of their personal income...
...ministers hope to avoid repeating their desperate move of March 1983, when they were forced to make the first and only price cut in OPEC'S history, a markdown of its benchmark Arab Light crude by $5 per bbl., to $29. Since then, energy conservation and sluggish world economic growth have helped push oil prices even lower, despite OPEC's self-imposed production limit of 17.5 million bbl. a day. Ministers hinted last week that they might reduce their output to about 16 million bbl. a day. By comparison, the group's daily production...
...impact on poverty. In fact, the percentage of the population living below the poverty line, currently set at an income of $10,178 for a family of four, rose from 12.6% in 1970 to 13% by 1980. Murray contends that this lack of progress cannot be blamed on a sluggish economy. The annual growth of the gross national product averaged 3.2% in the 1970s, a faster pace than in the Eisenhower years, when the prevalence of poverty declined. Murray, however, does not fully address the argument that growth was sporadic during the 1970s and that wage increases were badly eroded...
Despite the progress, however, scientists critical links of information are missing Moreover, not all the obstacles are scientific as competition and sluggish cooperation among researchers has plagued the work...