But, as Solow noted, investment has its limits, owing to diminishing marginal returns. Often, these limits are not binding, but, once capital deepening is exhausted, technological progress, which makes inputs more productive in creating final value, is the long run driver of growth.

The economy of the developed countries is maturing, which results in diminishing investment returns in those countries in general.

The consumption discount rate should account for the possibility that, as consumption grows, the marginal unit of consumption may be considered to have less social value. This is analogous to the idea of diminishing marginal private utility of private consumption, and is relatively uncontroversial, although researchers disagree on its magnitude.

Infrastructure investment will inevitably run up against the law of diminishing marginal returns, but consumption growth does not have a limit. Suppressing consumption thus suffocates future growth, and the share of household consumption in GDP has declined from 67 in the mid 1990 s to below 50 in recent years, with most of the decline reflecting the distortions created by government policies.

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But repression is yielding diminishing returns for the Party, owing to a third revolutionary development the dramatic decline in the cost of collective action. Autocracies stay in power if they can divide the population and prevent organized opposition activities.

With employment rising as Japan s economy moves toward realizing potential output, monetary stimulus will create inflationary pressures and public expenditure will yield sharply diminishing returns. At that point, significant growth can be achieved only by increasing the economy s real productive capacity.

Fifth, as a result of decades of catch up growth, China is approaching the technological frontier in many areas and the latecomer s advantage is diminishing, which means that the marginal productivity of its capital stock is diminishing, too. In short, the changes in China s microeconomic foundations, together with the weaknesses in its economic structure, imply that the economy must pay a higher cost, in the form of higher inflation, for a given increase in GDP growth.

We had marginal profits, and we had unhappy stakeholders.

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

There is only a marginal difference between the two.

The AIIB, too, has proved appealing and not just to developing countries. In fact, 57 countries including major powers like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom have signed up as founding members, which may reflect a growing awareness of the US dominated order s diminishing returns.

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In other words, the minds on the margin are not the marginal minds.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for many economically marginal communities.

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The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

While the Provisional Institutions have made progress in support of technical preparations for returns and returns to municipalities, and remain the leading funder of returns, efforts to revitalize the returns process have been lacking.

The Secretary General had recommended eliminating several reports, meetings, and activities of marginal usefulness.

Meanwhile, China s outward FDI will continue to encounter challenges, as various short and long term factors from weak international demand to an aging population cause its trade surplus to decline, diminishing its ability to export capital. China s investment in US government securities and other sovereign debt will continue to yield extremely low returns.

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For most, drinking water is a diminishing resource that is either unaffordable or simply unavailable.

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