# In an op-ed, Professor Nouriel Roubini discusses a slowdown in global economic growth

1 Faculty News May 2, 2016 ![Project Syndicate logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030500.jpg?itok=ONV7lJ6H)>

Excerpt from [Project Syndicate](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-growth-slowdown-factors-by-nouriel-roubini-2016-05) -- "There are no politically easy solutions to the global economy’s current quandary. Unsustainably high debt should be reduced in a rapid and orderly fashion, to avoid a long and protracted (often a decade or longer) deleveraging process. But orderly debt-reduction mechanisms are not available for sovereign countries and are politically difficult to implement within countries for households, firms, and financial institutions."

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