The poor are caught in a complex poverty trap in which low income leads to low consumption, which in turn results in low capacity and low productivity.

The Millennium Project report highlighted the problems of sub Saharan Africa and the poverty trap that is, low tax returns, low saving rates and the like.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

There is some danger, there is some trap. One trap the vertical.

The Impunity Trap

The Gaza Trap

The Fed Trap

Europe s Leisure Trap

The Inequality Trap

It's a trap!

The pessimists, however, doubt that China can maintain catch up economic growth. They argue that the current growth model, if not the economic system more broadly, is driving the country into a middle income trap.

The Climate Policy Trap

The Debt Death Trap

First and foremost, we need policies in low income countries that promote economic growth.

The Fed Sets Another Trap

Negotiations in a Strategic Trap

The Sino American Codependency Trap

The Middle East Turmoil Trap

You've walked into a trap.

Crap! I fell for his trap!

Don't grow up. It's a trap!

Do you think it's a trap?

They are wrong, however, about Europe s prospects for achieving its restricted growth potential. Europe s actual economic growth has been quite good and thanks to low gas prices, low real interest rates, solid profits, and strong growth momentum promises to get better before the ceiling is hit and inflationary pressures set in.

Abe is right about one thing Japan needs to get out of its no growth and deflationary trap. But the policies that he favors are not the way to do it.

In general, growth was broadly based, supported by robust export growth and higher commodity prices as well as strong domestic demand driven by low interest rates.

Greece, Argentina, and the Middle Income Trap

I know how to set a trap.

We must not fall into that trap.

MEXICO CITY Less than two years into Enrique Peña Nieto s presidency, Mexico is implementing an ambitious structural reform package designed to lift its economy out of a multi decade low growth trap and create new opportunities for its citizens. The reforms involve restructuring economic sectors once deemed politically untouchable, and are backed by constitutional amendments and a bold legislative agenda.

Come back. Because, after, there is another trap.

So we're caught in a kind of trap.

We set a trap to catch a fox.

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

Its statistics on women's health were characterized by very high population growth and fertility rates and low life expectancy.

Most importantly, these cylinders and this snow trap air.

Sluggish exports mean slow growth, which in turn places limits on social mobility and the expansion of an entrepreneurial middle class. That helps preserve the political power of entrenched veto wielding players, closing the trap.

Where job growth has taken place, it has been concentrated in insecure, informal employment with low wages and few benefits.

But it is impeded by slow growth and, thanks to high unemployment and weak global demand, persistently low inflation. Worse, over the longer term, low investment undermines productivity, while protracted unemployment destroys skills.

If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.

Not surprisingly, China skeptics are putting a different spin on the latest growth numbers. Fears of a shadow bank induced credit bubble now top the worry list, reinforcing longstanding concerns that China may succumb to the dreaded middle income trap a sustained growth slowdown that has ensnared most high growth emerging economies at the juncture that China has now reached.

If a country fails to respond adequately to new challenges as they arise, economic growth and development stall. Many countries in Latin America and South Asia, for example, have become mired in the so called middle income trap, because they failed to adjust their growth models in a timely manner.

18.11 The region is suffering from low rates of economic growth and investment, resulting in high unemployment rates, particularly among youth.

But many observers have argued that cheap oil also has a downside, because it exacerbates deflationary tendencies in the advanced countries, which already seem to be mired in a low growth trap. The sharp fall in oil prices, according to this view, will make it even harder for these countries' central banks to achieve the 2 annual inflation rate that most have targeted in fulfilling their price stability mandate.

Periods of rapid growth in lending are often associated with construction booms, partly because real estate assets are relatively easy to post as collateral for loans. But the rate of productivity growth in construction is low, and the value of many credit fueled projects subsequently turns out to be low or negative.

The world today encompasses, therefore, countries at all stages of the demographic transition, that is to say, the transition from a regime of high fertility and high mortality producing low population growth to one where both fertility and mortality are low and produce again low rates of population change.