48. After a long period of stagnation in the area of nuclear disarmament, positive trends had emerged.

Bracing for Stagnation

Russia s New Stagnation

Secular Stagnation for Free

Having moved from stagnation to expectation, stagnation cannot again be allowed to take hold.

The Problem With Secular Stagnation

Stagnation is the main threat.

If the reality is stagnation,

The same stagnation applies to Russia.

Economic stagnation remains a serious concern.

Economic stagnation has come to appear endless.

Egypt s political stagnation has reduced its regional influence.

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

Peace processes, he warned, could not afford stagnation.

A painful decade of stagnation for America lies ahead.

More strikingly, stagnation has found its promoters in Japan itself.

How long can Japan sustain this period of harmonious stagnation?

65 Ibid., citing World Bank, Stagnation or Revival?, p. 42.

Stagnation is a tacit collective choice made by a country s majority.

Stagnation rather than growth will be the name of the game.

The tragedy of that protracted stagnation isn't sufficiently recognized, I think.

The same will be true of the stagnation that those policies bring.

After five years of stagnation, the economy is finally on the move.

Nonetheless, almost two decades of economic stagnation have eroded Japan s regional clout.

Koizumi did, of course, revive Japan s economy after a decade of stagnation.

The world economy is moving out of a long drawn out stagnation.

Chronic stagnation is too high a price to pay for adopting the euro.

After a dozen years of stagnation, Japan's economy seems to be looking up.

Then, as now, fears about regional instability, economic stagnation, and social backwardness abounded.

In the Western world, the poorest are the worst affected by economic stagnation.

If the reality is stagnation, I can only go up if you go down.

Otherwise, we can expect a long period of stagnation, punctuated by periodic financial crises.

The embargo drove up prices and unleashed a period of inflation and stagnation worldwide.

In the less dynamic ones, like Japan, Germany, and Italy, near stagnation seems inevitable.

Indeed, the bureaucracy itself is often blamed for the country s rigidity and ongoing stagnation.

1 World Bank, Stagnation or Revival? Israeli Disengagement and Palestinian Economic Prospects, December 2004.

Stagnation in the industrialized economies contributed to a substantial fall in international interest rates.

The latter half of 1994 has, however, seen a stagnation of the negotiating process.

After years of recession and stagnation the world economy has resumed a modest growth.

The social and political consequences of economic stagnation were evident throughout the developing world, presenting new challenges for the United Nations, which, owing to its singular experience in the area of development, must play a central role.

But the prospect of permanent stagnation for countries like France, Italy, and Portugal is unacceptable.

Many younger Japanese have told me that they are fed up with stagnation and drift.

So the right s turn in government was followed by years of stagnation and exploding unemployment.

But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.

But the autocrat s return to the Kremlin could be Russia s best hope to escape stagnation.