For the 12th consecutive year, Japan is on track to grow slower than the world's economy.
Children who use inhalable steroids for asthma grow slower than their peers in the first year of taking the medication, researchers say.
That partly reflects the firm's prediction that sales will grow slower than it initially expected in the next quarter, as the global economy slows.
"Brazil will continue to grow slower than its potential," said Samuel Pessoa, an economist at the Brazilian Economic Institute at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
Those who think green GDP might grow slower than the dirty old kind politicians worship may be in for a surprise.
It said that economies of high-income countries like the United States and those of the European Union would contract 4.2percentthis yearandand grow slower than developing economies in the next two years.
One of the issues with inflation is that if your wages grow year-on-year but they grow slower than the rate of inflation then you are actually getting poorer.
The two different measures – one good, one bad – highlights the changing working environment, and also explains why despite unemployment falling, the amount of slack in the employment sector means wages continue to grow slower than ever.
So the sites grow slower but maintain their audiences better.
Historically, corporate sales increase in step with the economy and profits grow slower than that.
Networks designed for as few people as possible naturally grow slower.
