However, the German data was muted by news the European Commission expects EU, as a whole, to slip back into economic recession this year.
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If 2008 resembles any recent political year, it's 1992, when roughly the same number of Americans thought the country was headed in the wrong direction --mainly because of the economic recession that year.
Meanwhile, the lurch from economic growth of 7% a year to a deep recession will throw many out of work.
The recession had ended in June last year and the economic recovery was underway.
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That I think anybody would admit that losing 16 million jobs over the course of a two-and-a-half year recession would have put us into an economic depression.
Emissions are falling by less than a percentage point a year, and the government has admitted that it will fail to meet a self-imposed target of a 20% reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions on 1990 levels by next year, even though the recession has cut economic activity.
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Continuing weak economic growth has raised concerns of a triple-dip recession early this year, extending a recessionary period that began in 2008.
Right now they are at 20-year-low, partly as a result of the economic recession, but also as a result of the wide uptake of shale gas.
This trend went into reverse from late 1998, and the jump in prices over the following two years contributed to first a slowing of economic growth and then the recession in America, which began in March last year.
Speaking at the Ninth High-Level Group meeting on Education for All (EFA) in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Ms Bokova lauded the accomplishments of the Education For All (EFA) campaign - including the fact that in Africa 42 million more children are enrolled in primary school this year than in 2000 - but said that the economic recession had caused some governments to cut back on education funding.
Economic forecaster David Levy pegs the chances of a new global recession starting within a year or so at around 60%.
Nevertheless, market forces in the form of rising fuel prices and economic recession, have combined to lower U.S. emissions over the past year.
We have had an unprecedented 15-year economic expansion, a boom interrupted only by the 1990-91 recession.
That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).
Swan was named by banking magazine Euromoney as the world's finance minister of the year for 2011 for helping steer Australia clear of recession during the global economic meltdown.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said the UK was on the brink of its first full year of recession since 1991.
Furthermore, with the threat of a deep global economic recession looming, the UNWTO doesn't expect the travel and tourism industry to recover until later next year.
Many see the foreign investment as vital to helping Greece emerge from its economic morass, where a quarter of the workforce unemployed and the economy heading into a sixth year of recession.
Announcing the three-year aid package, Aso said Asian countries could lead the world out of recession through closer economic cooperation.
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