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If they fail to do so, the environment may be reshaped around them in adverse ways.
Acting now can be thought of as buying what financiers call “tail insurance” – some protection against the most adverse among all the possible outcomes.
Such an outcome would coincide with – and exacerbate the effects of – an adverse demographic shift that will constrain fiscal revenues and drive up costs for universal health care and pension benefits.
Finding ways to use water, land, fertilizer, and labor more efficiently, and with minimal adverse impact, is essential to ecological sustainability.
We cannot go on reacting to crises as they arise in the Balkans, especially as our actions can have such severe unintended and adverse consequences.
Intra-day volatility rose in virtually every segment of global financial markets; adverse price contagion became more common as more vulnerable entities contaminated the stronger ones; and asset-market correlations were rendered less stable.
Instead, some food security advocates have called for rich countries to compensate for the adverse consequences of their own agricultural subsidies and protectionism by providing additional foreign aid to the developing world, targeting production efforts that enhance food security.
The same forces that are dramatically increasing the world economy’s productive potential are largely responsible for the adverse trends in income distribution.
This could encourage investment in a range of higher-value-added sectors, promote positive spillovers, and minimize adverse effects.
For example, there was no awareness of the challenge posed by climate change, and that all countries (including those in the developing world) must reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and adapt to changes that will be particularly adverse to poor countries.
But when an economy faces a major adverse shock, such as a sharp increase in oil prices, then the twin goals of stabilizing inflation and maintaining economic activity conflict, and the central bank’s job becomes more difficult.
Is there a better way to respond to adverse shocks?
Leaving interest rates on hold in the face of adverse price shocks thus requires a convincing explanation by the ECB of its underlying policy.
The adverse distributive effects of market-based finance may serve to further strengthen anti-market forces in Europe, especially in southern Europe.
The absence of any adverse impact on government finances may thus lead some to dismiss the impact of a potential Moody’s downgrade in 2013.
Fortunately for the US, the immediate adverse impact on borrowing costs would be alleviated, if not nullified, by investors’ lack of readily available alternatives to US government bonds, as well as a Federal Reserve that has been buying large volumes of US Treasuries.
The potential adverse consequences of government procurement are well known.
On one occasion, a reporter queried the US Treasury on the adverse effects of the strong dollar on exports (at the time, car sales and other exports were suffering.)
Today, the EU is being asked to conduct complex missions in adverse circumstances.
Their economic costs are borne primarily at home, even though they may produce adverse effects for others as well.
Ill health due to malaria also directly reduces household income by incapacitating workers, causing lost work time, time lost for child-care, impaired cognitive development, and adverse effects during pregnancy resulting in low birth weight and producing physical disabilities.
Indeed, the economic effects of a second war against Iraq would probably be far more adverse.
This will please oil producers in other parts of the world, but will have enormously adverse consequences for the global economy, akin to those resulting from the oil price hikes in 1973.
Insurers have created and sustained a perverse loop, whereby they facilitate projects that cause global warming while providing insurance against these projects’ adverse climate impact.
They include long-term monitoring for adverse health effects and batteries of tests for genetic stability, toxins, allergenicity, and so on.
Given adverse demographics in the advanced world, slowing productivity, and rising pension obligations, it is very hard to know what the endgame of soaring debt would be.
In fact, the first rule of thumb in combating today’s inequality should be that simplistic egalitarian policies are not a permanent solution – and may, in fact, have adverse long-term consequences.
They show that only a handful of countries redistribute enough to make more than a ten-point difference in the coefficient, and that redistribution-fueled swings of more than 13 points do tend to have an adverse effect on growth.
Meanwhile, the adverse trends in income distribution both preceded the crisis and have survived it.
My argument was that adverse expectations could affect a policy’s results, not just the chances that it will be adopted.
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