Sentence examples for world downturn from inspiring English sources

Medef noted that the French economy is at an awkward moment thanks to a world downturn.

However, with the world downturn they suddenly found that their current system was not able to cope with the demands placed on it.

And it does look as if China is receptive, despite the world downturn.

Hit by the world downturn, the British economy grew by only 1.8% in 2002, the slowest since 1992.

The Swiss economy has suffered in the past two years as businesses have cut investment and run down inventories in response to the world downturn.

He expressed confidence that the economy was "far more resilient than it was facing the last two oil shocks and facing some of the problems we had when there was a world downturn in the early 90s".

The middle charts show trends in government spending in advanced economies and in developing ones, comparing the trend during the current recovery to an average of the recoveries after three previous world downturns — in 1975, 1982 and 1991.

Thanks to more disciplined macroeconomic policies and large cushions of reserves, many emerging economies have strong defences against a rich-world downturn.

Even Thailand, mired in political turmoil, grew by 9.1% in the second quarter.The dream is that this gilded future is now insulated from rich-world downturns: that China now having, after all, officially overtaken Japan as the world's second-largest economy can drive growth for the whole region.

That would be the sharpest slowdown since 1975.The long and the short of itHow long will the world economic downturn last?

Meanwhile, renewed concern over the world economic downturn continued to hammer the oil price, which dropped 8% today.