1.   A dramatically lower savings rate, low growth rates in investment and labor productivity, and stagnating wages are a direct result.

2.   A similar constraint is visible in the monetary growth rates of all the advanced industrial countries.

3.   According to the theory, pre-industrial populations can be characterized by high levels of birth and death rates, and low growth rates.

4.   An even higher economic growth rate is not out of the question.

5.   And that slow but steady growth rate upsets some politicians.

6.   Consequently, the crops over the ditch have a different growth rate.

7.   Dosing farm animals with antibiotics because they accelerate their growth rates can not be acceptable practice.

8.   For its part, the government concluded that lowering the population growth rate would enhance the prosperity of the nation.