Sentence examples for economic lag from inspiring English sources

"We are going to see a $300bn economic uplift to the state as a result of the transaction in the years ahead because we are building congestion-busting infrastructure designed to strengthen the state economy, which is currently experiencing a $500bn economic lag because of congestion".

In any event, according to the researchers, the shallower penetration of new technologies in the third world explains of their economic lag: "changes in the pattern of technology diffusion account for 80 percent of the Great Income Divergence between rich and poor countries since 1820".

Self-immolations by Tibetans, uprisings in Uighur areas, economic lags in the countryside, and cities experiencing environmental catastrophe challenged Beijing to maintain balanced control.

Rather, it is often a reasonable response to the fact that our political and economic institutions lag way behind our personal ideals.

Their economic status lags far behind that of women in other advanced economies.

Radical ecology, a philosophy that challenges all the accepted social and economic models, lags far behind.

French economic growth lagged behind that of England and the Netherlands, where governments permitted greater entrepreneurial initiative.

This is especially true in the interior, the wellspring of the revolution not least because economic development lagged.

During the 1990s the party gained strength in eastern Germany, where unemployment remained stubbornly high and economic conditions lagged.

Notwithstanding the barrage of propaganda in the Brexit press that everything is fine and dandy with the post-referendum economy, the OBR knows something about economic time-lags.

Oil revenues have crashed, economic growth lags the rest of the UK and Scotland still runs a large public sector on relatively low taxes.