Newly developing economies, in sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, could struggle amid stagnating commodity demand or could begin to take over parts of supply chains previously occupied by cheap labour in no-longer-cheap BRICs.
Strong German exports, he observed, had been offset by stagnating domestic demand.
As healthcare budgets stagnate or decline and demand for treatment for phobias increases, a larger number of patients will need to be treated at lower costs per patient.
Is demand for health care growing, stagnating or shrinking?
The bank's chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, is focusing on earning more from individuals as corporate demand for credit stagnates and defaults increase.
On Monday, the European Commission predicted that German growth would stagnate in 2009, an election year, as demand for exports is drying up across the globe.
One of China's richest private businessmen who knows the markets well calls them "congenitally deformed children born after the rape of capitalism by socialism".Sustained high growth will require strong demand, yet the incomes of most rural residents (who account for 65% of the population) have been stagnating for the past four years.
Supercomputer sales by all vendors are growing as demand for other computers stagnates, Mr. Ungaro said.
Nevertheless, if Nord Stream and a southern route sibling are operating at full capacity by 2020 and EU annual demand for Russian gas continues to stagnate or even decline via increased efficiency or through the introduction of new suppliers, the share of Ukrainian transited gas could drop as low as 20%%.
Italy's economy barely grew in the second quarter after stagnating for a year, as manufacturing stalled and slumping stock markets hurt consumer demand.
