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The probability of catastrophes, whether intentional or not, resulting from human activity appears to be increasing because of the rapidity and direction of technological advances.
The right bet, surely, is that in the West markets have a good name and the State as the center of economic activity does not.
But, because the relevant changes are not captured or adequately reflected in national-accounts data, perceptions are at odds with the activity that is unfolding beneath the macroeconomic level.
With the informal economy worth an estimated $360 billion, new policies aim to add all of this underground activity to Egypt’s recorded output.
Economic activity of this kind is of doubtful social value, yet it eats up real resources in terms of human talent, computing power, and debt.
Since the World Cup ended in July, economic activity has plummeted, inflationary pressures have intensified, and consumer and business confidence have collapsed, leading many economists to slash their growth forecasts for this year.
Though overall economic activity is weak, the current-account deficit has reached a 12-year high of 3.5% of GDP.
Nearby Tanzania and Mozambique each have fewer than ten such agreements, and have attracted less Chinese activity.
Similarly, Chinese residential investment and commercial real-estate activity are slowing sharply as home prices start to fall.
Such an unprecedented wave of urbanization provides solid support for infrastructure investment and commercial and residential construction activity.
The first great disruption is the shift of economic activity to emerging-market cities.
Although economic activity has recently increased, the eurozone has lost the ability to respond to the next downturn when it happens, as it inevitably will.
Alternatively, European exports could fall in response to geopolitical events in Asia or the Middle East, depressing overall economic activity in Europe.
Without free labor mobility, fiscal transfers are the eurozone’s only option to ease debt repayment and, by stimulating economic activity, boost employment.
The fundamental problems that triggered alarm bells in the first place – including real-estate bubbles, local-government debt, rapid growth in shadow-banking activity, and rising corporate leverage ratios – remain unresolved.
The sharp declines in oil and commodity prices during the latest supercycle have helped mitigate inflationary pressures, while the generalized slowdown in economic activity in the emerging world may have contributed as well.
The housing problem is contributing to the financial crisis, which in turn is reducing the supply of credit needed to sustain economic activity.
Without this confidence, credit will not flow and economic activity will be constrained.
And declining economic activity in the rest of the world is lowering demand for US exports.
In addition, some governments in the region are under the double pressure of having to reduce their budget deficits and pay back debt; precious little will be left for expenditure that could stimulate economic activity, such as investments in infrastructure or energy efficiency.
Economically, border controls act just like taxes; they distort activity, by increasing transaction costs and reducing cross-border flows of goods and services.
Unfortunately, these reforms have all too often served as displacement activity – worthwhile in themselves, but failing to answer unambiguously the question posed with increasing urgency by international markets: Are the eurozone’s largest and currently most prosperous members absolutely committed to its continuation?
This approach may have worked at earlier stages of development and when the global financial crisis caused private spending to fall; but it is now distorting economic activity and depressing potential growth.
The term “supply side” is intended to distinguish these new policies from the traditional demand-side measures of easy money and a slightly larger fiscal deficit that are already aimed at strengthening economic activity.
But, with new regulations punishing such trading (via higher capital charges), banks and other financial institutions have reduced their market-making activity.
For example, the Party's main current activity is drafting the documents that will be approved at the next congress, scheduled for the autumn of 2007.
Where the Red Cross view, adopted by Kouchner’s former colleagues at Doctors Without Borders, insists that humanitarian action is a vital but limited activity that can be coherent and effective only if it understands its limitations, the Kouchner view is that humanitarian action can be a lever for changing the world.
Testing the Limits of Fossil FuelsMILAN – Most people recognize that human activity, primarily the use of fossil fuels, is contributing mightily to an increasing level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The two are intimately connected: micro-level regulation affects the supply and allocation of credit – a crucial determinant of macroeconomic activity.
The term describes the prolonged adolescence that young people must endure until they can afford marriage, the region’s institutional and cultural gateway to societal recognition, not to mention sexual activity.
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