Brazil has grown relatively rich on its natural resources, but joining first-world industry in such a big way was always going to be hugely expensive.
The compromise averted a political melee over redistribution, but because spending in these programs has grown relatively slowly in the last 20 years, it did little to eliminate the disparities.
Hong Kong is already a mature, prosperous enclave that has grown relatively immune to the blandishments of mutual prosperity that helped keep it stable during 16 years of Chinese rule.
Personal income, excluding capital gains, has grown relatively smoothly by comparison.
Instead, he urged support for his policies by stressing that the economy has grown relatively briskly for about a year, adding more than 1.5 million jobs since last August.
This may be why private equity investing abroad has grown relatively slowly compared with the regions that the firms desire to invest in.
Even in Canada, where the output of PhD graduates has grown relatively modestly, universities conferred 4,800 doctorate degrees in 2007 but hired just 2,616 new full-time professors.
One reason the U.S. economy has grown relatively slowly over the past eight years is that corporations have been sitting on their cash rather than investing it in things like factories, offices, and new equipment — a failure widely attributed to depressed animal spirits.
Viv has grown relatively stealthily over the past four years.
Vietnam's economy has grown relatively fast recently.
But now his firm has invested heavily and, he says, can hold its own.Indian labour may even have grown relatively cheaper.
