Search results
Recesja (łac. recessio – „cofanie się” oraz recedere – „ustępować, cofać się”) – zjawisko makroekonomiczne polegające na znacznym zahamowaniu tempa wzrostu gospodarczego, skutkujące najczęściej spadkiem produktu krajowego brutto (PKB).
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a period of broad decline in economic activity. [1] [2] Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock).
There have been as many as 48 recessions in the United States dating back to the Articles of Confederation, and although economists and historians dispute certain 19th-century recessions, [1] the consensus view among economists and historians is that "the [cyclical] volatility of GNP and unemployment was greater before the Great Depression than ...
The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. [1] The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map).
An L-shaped recession or depression occurs when an economy has a severe recession and does not return to trend line growth [8] for many years, if ever. The steep decline, is followed by a flat line makes the shape of an L. This is the most severe of the different shapes of recession. Alternative terms for long periods of underperformance ...
A global recession is a recession that affects many countries around the world—that is, a period of global economic slowdown or declining economic output.
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the 1929 Wall Street crash that began the Great Depression. Causes of the crisis included predatory lending in the form of subprime mortgages to low-income homebuyers and a resulting housing bubble, excessive risk-taking ...