| 1. | "We are a mature economy now, " the prime minister said Friday.
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| 2. | But mature economies, like the United States today, normally are lenders, not borrowers.
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| 3. | "Are there really infant industries in mature economies, " he asks?
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| 4. | In the mature economies, it's a little bit slower ."
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| 5. | Like a mature economy, Singapore faces a declining birth rate.
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| 6. | Most mature economies naturally experience a declining birthrate, they note.
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| 7. | In mature economies, that source is the individual entrepreneur.
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| 8. | When we become a more mature economy, then such growth rates will be difficult to sustain.
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| 9. | It is a mature economy with a growing population of retired people and a shrinking work force.
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| 10. | The worst decline among Europe's mature economies came in Italy, where the Mibtel Index sank 9 percent.
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