A vote to leave would, in our view, deter investment in the economy, decrease official demand for sterling reserves, and put the UK's financial services sector at a competitive disadvantage compared with other global financial centres.
"[The] loss of transit fees would weaken Ukraine's economy, decrease the beleaguered country's energy security, and so undermine the EU's policy toward Kiev," Korteweg said.
J is for job-loss recovery -- a form of economic growth in which the total number of jobs in the economy decreases.
I cannot imagine anyone actually thinking this deal — with its clear potential for another bruising fight and deadlock that will do more to hurt the economy — decreases uncertainty.
The oil business reached its peak in the early 1980s; however, by the end of the decade the industry had gone bust, and thereafter its contribution to the economy decreased dramatically.
Nevertheless, the trend is quite obvious; the fuel economy decreases as the airspeed increases.
Given the incessant downturns in the global economy, decreases in exports, and shrinking of investment, consumption has become the most urgent driver to "stabilise growth, adjust structure, promote reform, improve livelihoods and control risks".
That may sound like bad news, but with Wall Street on Fed watch, the numbers must be read in reverse: Any bad news on the economy decreases inflationary pressures.
In this case, the discipline is like a buffer or damper of the economic activity; if the economy is growing, people relax the discipline, but when the economy decreases, people are willing to accept more discipline, precisely to prevent further economic decline.
The freight industry has had to be very flexible in responding to the demands of the new urban economy: decreased size of inventories (zero stock), growing demand for express and urgent deliveries, fragmentation of shipments (a few parcels received each day instead of a consolidated load once a week), fast increase of home deliveries following the rapid growth of on-line shopping.
One study concluded that the expansion of China's export supply capacity since 1995, controlling for such factors as the slowdown in the U.S. economy, decreased Latin American industrial exports by 0.5-1.2 0.5-1.2%r between 1995 and 2000 and by 1.1-3.1% between 2000 and 2004.
