Zero savings and zero investment means zero economic growth and prosperity.
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Such policies would inevitably lead to exactly zero savings, investment, economic growth, and even work.
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With salary rises and economic growth near zero in the past few years, demand has been anemic at best.
The European Central Bank also on Thursday said it has reduced its economic growth forecast for the Euro zone, predicting zero growth in 2013 from its previous forecast of 0.3% growth.
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In the case of France, the loss of localness means investors can bet on the stock market of a country "with a gloomy economic outlook, a zero growth and rising unemployment rates" and expect to make money, Mr. Vinerier said.
In notable economic news this week, the Labor Department reported zero job growth in the month of August, far worse than economists had been expecting.
Dubai has recovered faster from the financial crisis than most other countries and is now in a high growth mode because of its zero tax policy and economic free zones.
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On Sunday, French President Francois Hollande said he expected economic growth in France to be "barely above zero" in 2012, which chimes with the latest forecast from the OECD of 0.1% growth this year.
The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.
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Such investments, borrowed at near-zero interest rates, need not increase debt ratios if their contribution to economic growth raises tax collections.
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In his report to the nation, he pointed to 3% economic growth in the first three quarters of 1999, up from near zero the previous year, an inflation rate of 6.6%, the lowest in two decades, interest rates under 9%, the lowest in 12 years, and 19% growth in exports.
The riel is weak but relatively stable, inflation is in single digits and economic growth is much improved, estimated at 4% for 1999, from effectively zero the year before.
Third, there is no (none, zero, zilch) evidence in the public domain that an appreciating Chinese yuan will lead to economic growth and job creation in the United States.
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