The word "imbalances" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where there is an inequality or disproportion of something, for example, "The imbalances in the economy were evident in the stark contrast between the rich and the poor."
Construction, hairdressing and motor vehicle engineering have similarly large imbalances.
But imbalances in global trade lie at the heart of the crisis – a new deal for the global economy has to give rebalancing a greater chance of happening.
The Kentucky senator abruptly ended the interview when he was pressed over whether his campaign focus on the racial imbalances of criminal justice reform would win him support among Republicans.
Important as such steps could be to correcting labour market imbalances, it may prove little consolation to the 1.6 million Americans who have just lost long-term unemployment benefit due to Democratic impotence on Capitol Hill.
As a transgender person – and he has no wish to define the "meat and potatoes" of his sexuality any more precisely – he sees himself as having a small headstart on most of the rest of civilisation in his intimate understanding of the need for feminine power structures to restore imbalances created by "patriarchal religion, patriarchal economies and patriachal government".
As well as the sanctions they face for excessive deficits and imbalances, euro-zone governments must for the first time this year submit budgets to Brussels before they go to national parliaments.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] ratios in ArmeniaSIR – You drew attention to the practice of aborting female foetuses and the resulting sex imbalances in the Caucasus ("Gendercide in the Caucasus", September 21st).
Our figures for Armenia, the example cited in your article, show that the greatest imbalances are seen not at the birth of the first or second child, but from the third child on (up to 160 boys born for every 100 girls).
With inflation below target it has no need to rush to tighten.The longer-term fear is that growing imbalances will repeat the financial cycle of the 2000s, in which exporters to America once again finance reckless consumer borrowing.
The upshot of the system was a large and persistent American current-account deficit accompanied by huge foreign lending to the American economy.Strikingly, Europe's internal monetary system developed similar imbalances, though for different reasons.
The upshot of such quotas, subsidies and controls is to dump all the imbalances that in another business might be smoothed out through small adjustments onto the one unregulated part of the food chain: the international market.For decades, this produced low world prices and disincentives to poor farmers.
