America provided China with both stability and growth anchors. China enabled the US to sidestep the mounting perils of subpar saving, reckless fiscal policy, and weak household income growth.

NEW YORK In a world of weak domestic demand in many advanced economies and emerging markets, policymakers have been tempted to boost economic growth and employment by going for export led growth. This requires a weak currency and conventional and unconventional monetary policies to bring about the required depreciation.

Thus, in Europe now, as in Japan then, the pieces are in place for a lost decade weak banks make for weak government finances, which in turn make for weak growth and even weaker banks, with the absence of monetary and fiscal support leaving no escape from this vicious spiral.

In Japan, with an economy of about half the size of the US, growth forces remain weak. In the second quarter of 2008, the Japanese economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.4 , primarily due to weak exports.

Even in a situation with relatively slow demand growth and weak prices, new capacity may still be added successfully if production costs are low enough.

Prevailing challenges include low growth, persistent poverty and weak governance, the social and economic disruption resulting from conflict and shortfalls in health and educational services.

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However, it will be difficult for Yemen to sustain the present growth of domestic demand because of its decreasing oil production and weak non oil exports.

In some cases enclaves of faster export growth emerged in the extractive sectors, usually tied to FDI, but with weak linkages to the rest of the economy.

Over the last 18 quarters, annualized growth in real consumer demand has averaged a mere 0.7 , compared to a 3.6 growth trend in the decade before the crisis erupted. Never before has the American consumer been this weak for this long.

The alternative explanation for the persistence of weak global growth has been best formulated by the Bank for International Settlements, an organization of central banks. The BIS maintains that excessively low interest rates are a big reason why growth is disappointing.

In fact, its weak domestic demand has dampened growth elsewhere. As a result, German banks and taxpayers are less likely to recover their bad loans to southern Europe.

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Faced with weak demand in advanced countries, Asian economies are working to rebalance their sources of growth by shifting toward domestic and regional markets. As a result, growth in intra regional trade has outpaced overall trade growth, with intra Asian trade now accounting for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.

When, despite an improved macroeconomic environment and progress towards more open policies, growth impulses remain weak or lethargic, the national development strategy and productive sector policies assume particular importance.

If anything, inflation is now falling further globally as commodity prices adjust downward in response to weak global growth. And gold is following the fall in actual and expected inflation.

The productivity record has generally been weak over the last few years, and this suggests that growth in the years ahead could be slower than previously expected. Revenue growth thus looks insufficient to match the surge in age related public spending on health and pensions.

Low rates, in turn, provided the lubrication needed to finance the asset bubble in the US and elsewhere. According to Summers, high savings caused weak growth under the alternative explanation offered here, it was primarily rapid growth and its distinctive features that drove high savings.

Other emerging markets growth prospects are even worse not least because of low commodity prices. As a result, these countries can expect lower capital inflows, again making for weak local currencies.

First, it is important to acknowledge that weak aggregate demand and anemic economic growth, not an acceleration in the labor displacement rate, explains the slow jobs growth of the last decade. Under these conditions, monetary policy should remain accommodative and further fiscal austerity should be eschewed.

The slow growth of the eastern part of the country has pulled down the Germany wide average, while the enormous demand for public funds in the east has increased public debt. The weak fiscal position has in turn undermined investors confidence, with obvious implications for economic growth.

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A back of the envelope calculation suffices to show that, unless the government is prepared to tolerate a further increase in the investment rate, achieving a GDP growth target of 7.5 implies a significant fall in the growth rate of investment. To compensate for the negative impact on GDP growth, and with export growth constrained by weak global demand, consumption must rise even more sharply, which is hard to imagine.

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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.

Weak external demand is partly responsible for the falloff in growth, but internal factors namely, slowing investment and stagnating consumption are also holding back economic expansion. Maintaining growth in the face of a global slowdown is a daunting task, and it requires rethinking the future of factory Asia.

Not surprisingly, these states typically have weak conflict management institutions patchy law enforcement, limited adherence to democratic principles, and few meaningful checks and balances on the government. Similarly, Dani Rodrik of Harvard University has found that the countries that experienced the sharpest declines in growth after 1975 had divided societies and weak conflict management institutions.

But, while the CN 4 trillion stimulus package propped up growth temporarily, return on investment was deteriorating, because potential growth was already lower than actual growth. As a result, credit demand was relatively weak in many cases, commercial banks had to persuade enterprises to accept loans, with a large proportion of the credit ultimately devoted to chasing assets in the capital market.

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Meanwhile, the main transmission channels of monetary stimulus to the real economy the bond, credit, currency, and stock markets remain weak, if not broken. Indeed, the bond market channel is unlikely to boost growth.

Experience shows that reforming formal trade policies is not enough to stimulate growth. There is a need to address a range of obstacles, including weak institutions, deficient infrastructure and trade barriers in key markets.

The consequences of rapid urbanization, combined with poor urban governance, weak economic growth and HIV AIDS, have reached crisis proportions in cities and urban areas of much of the developing world, especially in Africa.

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Given the strong likelihood that consumers will remain weak for years to come, America s growth agenda needs to focus on getting more out of the other 30 . Of the four growth components that fall into this category, two have the greatest potential to make a difference capital spending and exports.

However, overall performance in terms of investment, value added and productivity growth was often quite weak Premature deindustrializers This group included most countries in Latin America, which had achieved a certain degree of industrialization but were unable to sustain a dynamic process of structural change through rapid accumulation and growth.

Fifth, weak profitability, owing to high debts and default risk, low economic and thus revenue growth, and persistent deflationary pressure on companies margins, will continue to constrain firms willingness to produce, hire workers, and invest.

Trade liberalization was not an end in itself, but its ultimate objective should be to raise the living standards of people, especially those who were weak and most vulnerable, through accelerated growth and income opportunities.