Stagnant and Paralyzed

But gold is stagnant, while capital is productive.

The lakes and ponds became black and stagnant.

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.

Whole regions the Urals and Mordovia, for example are stagnant.

In the early 1960s, the Czechoslovak economy became severely stagnant.

You're the ones struggling with rising costs and stagnant wages.

Crucially for Europe, world trade has been virtually stagnant in recent months.

Aid to the poorest countries is stagnant, despite years of promised increases.

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

The developing world was growing nicely, while the advanced countries were virtually stagnant.

Kaldor s argument was based on the erroneous premise that services were technologically stagnant.

The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades.

It is a necessary but insufficient first step for overhauling Egypt s stagnant political system.

But if prices remain stagnant at current levels, Putin s system is doomed to failure.

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

The everyday consequence for the middle class is a stagnant paycheck and growing job insecurity.

With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.

For two decades, as one Asian economy after another boomed, Japan s economy remained virtually stagnant.

That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.

Stagnant growth and emigration are two of the main factors causing division in the Americas.

Closed political systems and stagnant economies in the Muslim world, they contend, are symptoms, not causes.

Employing workers in sectors where their productivity is stagnant would not be a recipe for social stability.

Without growth, tax revenues will remain stagnant, and the capacity to service debts will continue to erode.

In countries coming out of war or other conflicts, efforts at inclusion are futile in stagnant economies.

Hizb al ghad recently produced a 48 page draft constitution, aimed at reviving Egypt s stagnant political life.

We must help raise up the failing States and stagnant societies that provide fertile ground for terrorists.

Other nations have chosen that path. It leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debt, and stagnant wages.

Yet workers share of the pie is falling, thanks to high unemployment, shortened working hours, and stagnant wages.

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

The dynamism released by this process can revive stagnant economies and promote integration into the global economic system.

This pressure on the peripheral countries to deflate their already stagnant economies is turning into the eurozone s greatest challenge.

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

After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5 in 2006.

But, given the stagnant state of Russian science and technology, even the best Russian equipment nowadays seems out of date.

Median incomes have been stagnant or even falling for the last 30 years, even as per capita GDP has grown.

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Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

The stock market is a real time market.

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

Factors such as the rapid population growth, combined with a stagnant economy, could endanger the long term stability of the country.

The literacy rate in 2000 for the population over five years remained stagnant at the 1990 level of 55.3 per cent.

Secondly, the exports of these commodities have been stagnant and in general are likely to face poor prospects in the future.