slower growth
collocation in Englishmeaningsofslowandgrowth
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slow
adjective
uk/sləʊ/us/sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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growth
noun
uk/ɡrəʊθ/us/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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(Definition ofslowandgrowthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although democracy takes a negative sign in the growth equation, it would be premature to conclude that democracy leads toslowergrowth.
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This paper provides evidence that domestic opportunities to share risk have contributed toslowergrowth.
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In this case, the intuition of our model would predictslowergrowth.
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This is despiteslowergrowthrates in the unsaturated biofilms as compared with liquid culture.
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Because of itsslowergrowth, sorghum plants were infested at 8, 11 and 14 weeks after emergence, respectively.
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Recall from equation (2) that an economy that starts out with a lower per-capita capital stock will seeslowergrowth.
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Second, the rapid vocabulary growth clusters were populated primarily by girls whereas clusters withslowergrowthconsisted mainly of boys.
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The age at which the female curve crosses that of the male becomes progressively earlier withslowergrowthrates.
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For instance, economies that start out poorer exhibitslowergrowthand a more unequal distribution of wealth over time.
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In particular, higher inflation leads to increased credit rationing and less extension of bank credit and therefore to lower investment andslowergrowth.
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Such an increase in the temperature leads to a strong increase in the heat flux deep into the plasma and to aslowergrowthof the temperature itself.
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The first result is that, on average, developing countries would experienceslowergrowthin all crop yields as the coefficient â is below zero for all crops.
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On the other hand,slowergrowthof government funding increases interest in less comprehensive public insurance schemes and higher reliance on complementary insurance, private initiatives, and individual responsibility (15).
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Theslowergrowthforecast for 1989 inevitably implies a marked deceleration during the course of the year, particularly so far as domestic demand is concerned.
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The fact that we shall have one year ofslowergrowthin no way denies that achievement.
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However, theslowergrowthof gross domestic product in 1999 will also be accompanied by a drop in the employment growth rate to 0.9 %.
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A rise in the price of oil can be expected to lead to somewhat higher inflation andslowergrowth, in the short term.
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Does he have an alternative solution for reducing inflation that does not involve a period ofslowergrowthof demand?
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Stabilising the world's population will offerslowergrowthand slower environmental impact.
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Slowergrowthfrom this source will also help to curb inflationary pressure in 1998.
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