sluggishness

verkkaisuus

hitaus The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
2012, w:Javier Solana|Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/solana16/English Whose Sovereignty?:
*And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.