Sentence examples for inflated growth from inspiring English sources

Although the government artificially depressed inflation data, it simultaneously inflated growth numbers.

One of the quirks of Chinese data has long been that the provinces reported higher numbers than the central government did a phenomenon that was put down to the fact that local officials inflated growth rates in order to get promoted.

Few of America's top managers, however, yet seem to be in a mood to take on the kind of extra risks which might meet inflated growth expectations, or beat the long-term trend, until they feel confident that restructuring has indeed dealt with all the excesses of the late 1990s.

True, local officials have an incentive to inflate growth numbers because promotion depends upon economic performance; however, experience suggests that number crunchers in local government are more accurate than Beijing's.

Mr. Biddle has also made Mr. Morin a punching bag, reporting that he bought new users for his start-up to artificially inflate growth and spammed people already on the service by sending unwanted messages to their phone contacts.

At the creation of the system and repeatedly since, Environmental Defense Fund warned that minting credits for reducing emissions below "what would have otherwise occurred" in fast-growing nations would spawn perverse incentives, with industries tempted to generate bogus credits by inflating growth projections.

The revisions for the fourth quarter would seem to disprove accusations that the Obama administration inflated job growth ahead of the November election, since the original estimates were recalculated to show there was even more growth.

"But if this issue is widespread, and the numbers are inflated, then growth may not have been as strong as it seems and that means policymakers may have underestimated the seriousness of the problems that China is facing," he added.

Once it makes it into Colombia's $330bn £217bnn) economy, it can inflate economic growth numbers by several points.

So far this year, Tyco's stock has dropped about 50percentt amid concerns that the company uses aggressive accounting practices to inflate its growth rate and profits.

They are looking into whether the payment was used improperly as part of an effort to inflate the growth of AOL.