Post conflict economic recovery is a slow process.

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

This trend of employment in the public sector can be explained by the slow recovery of industry and the simultaneous growth of the country's administration after the war.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, economic growth remained low and volatile, although there was a recovery in 2004 and the outlook for 2005 looks positive.

Regarding the tsunami and Nias disaster, delegations expressed concern at the slow progress of school reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and North Sumatra.

The deployment of UNMIS military elements has progressed slowly but steadily.

With competition weak, entrepreneurs did not rush to hire the unemployed. When recovery began, political unrest last fall nipped confidence in the bud.

But the recoveries from the recessions of 1991 and 2001 were different. For example, in 2001, it took just one quarter for output to recover, but 38 months for jobs to come back.

Progress has been slow.

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Keynes called this the paradox of thrift saving slows down recovery.

Another problem is the slowness in donor disbursement procedures for rehabilitation and recovery.

Median household income has barely begun to recover, and is still well below its 2000 level. This is because most of the gains from economic recovery have gone to people at the top of the income distribution.

OIOS found that the slow response from some Member States was usually a delaying factor in deploying military observers to the field.

The work on an agenda for development had been seriously delayed, and that delay could become more pronounced.

24. The economy of the Republic of Croatia is slowly recovering from the war years.

Change happens slowly.

But it is so slow.

How slow all of a sudden.

The second explanation was that the slow recovery was part of a longer term trend, attributable to secular stagnation or a dearth of important technological innovations. It is true that productivity growth and labor force growth have slowed since 1975.

Judging from the over all situation, since the international economy is under deep adjustment, its recovery is relatively slow, which will bring about a large pressure on China's import including the import of Liaoning province.

Nevertheless, small pockets are emerging which, against the odds, show signs of economic growth and are making a slow and painful transition from crisis to recovery.

They were going very slowly.

The funds have been slow in coming.

I prefer a slow encirclement.

Her breathing's still short.

The slow progress was no doubt due to the complexity of the topic, and the Commission should redouble its efforts.

I don't mind. A change would do you good.

It grows very slowly.

The continental landmasses drifted around.

Slow Growth for US Interest Rates

Slow recovery of agricultural activities owing to the delayed return of refugees to rural areas as a result of modest improvement in security conditions

It's very slow.

Little progress has been made since then.

Here also progress is slow.

No wonder that progress has come very slowly, if at all.

Political progress has been slow or even absent.

Slow implementation of capital assets projects

Reinhart and Rogoff offer a couple of reasons for the difference in recovery rates the slow policy response to the Great Depression and the gold standard, which meant that individual countries could not export their way out of depression. In other words, fiscal policy and the monetary policy regime have a decisive influence both on the depth of the collapse and how long before the economy recovers.

Nevertheless, before rushing to judgment about current policy, we should recognize the trend in recent US recoveries of slow job growth. From 1960 until 1991, recoveries from recessions in the US were typically rapid.

By this standard, the current recovery is unacceptably slow, with both output and employment still below the previous peak. Policymakers thus feel justified in using all available macroeconomic levers to achieve a recovery that resembles those of the past.

Many policymakers and economists have observed that the recovery from the 2007 2008 financial crisis has been much slower than most recoveries of the post war era, which needed only a little more than a year, on average, to restore output and employment to their previous levels. By this standard, the current recovery is unacceptably slow, with both output and employment still below the previous peak.

And then, when he was getting well, there was no holding him.

Moreover, the return of southerners from other parts of the Sudan will be slow and attempts to attract members of the Sudanese diaspora have not met with success.

Thus the damage caused by such disasters is considerable, and recovery from their devastating effects is slow.