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In accounting for such variety, some people anchor our understanding of human nature at a level below that of culture.
Finally, governments need to anchor these reforms in global rules so that everyone can have confidence that domestic measures will stick.
But China, which is Asia’s anchor, is not, and in a world where everyone else is falling down, the one left standing is that much taller.
The name of the game, then, is to persuade consumers that the rise in inflation will be temporary, and for that a credible and strong fiscal anchor is key.
Second, even if the Fed acts quickly, investor appetite for returns will anchor yields.
Since then, the Allies have found numerous ways to anchor the obligations arising from Article 5 in operational practice.
Indeed, with Burma’s economy opening to the world, India ought to be taking the lead in seeking to stimulate South Asian growth and economic integration, for only by doing so can it anchor its neighbor within the region.
Over 60% of all countries (accounting for more than 70% of world GDP) use the US dollar as their anchor currency.
After all, Germany's traditional low-key foreign policy made the country an anchor of NATO and helped secure reunification.
Disoriented by unfamiliar surroundings, Islam becomes their anchor.
But for this anchor to work, Islam must be liberated from its traditionally subservient, passive and docile posture in the face of modernity.
A fiscal compact like the one approved recently is useful to anchor expectations of future adjustment, but only if the new system is flexible enough to be politically credible.
Last but not least, the three pillars could not have remained standing without the anchor provided by the fourth.
The Dollar’s Long TailNEW DELHI – The ongoing economic crisis and the persistent deficits of the United States have increasingly called into question the dollar’s role as the world’s anchor currency.
But the long history of global anchor currencies suggests that the dollar’s days on top may be far from over.
And, finally, the anchor currency and the underlying eco-system of world trade often outlive the geopolitical decline of the anchor country by decades.
A new economic order was established after World War II, with the US as the anchor country.
As with the Bretton Woods system, a peripheral economy (for example, China) could grow very rapidly even as the anchor economy (the US) enjoyed cheap financing.
Even if China replaces the US as the world’s largest economy within a decade, an anchor currency can be more resilient than the economic and geopolitical dominance of its country of origin.
Though the system was highly vulnerable to bank runs and there was little scope for a monetary stabilization policy, people’s confidence in the system enabled it to anchor expectations.
Although the Stability and Growth Pact has lost more and more respect (indeed, it is now to be applied, according to the European Commission, purely according to national leaders’ discretion), it would remain the anchor for fiscal stability and confidence.
Indeed, two recent developments may help anchor Kazakhstan as a Western ally.
While some would have favored greater policy activism, Merkel’s Germany has provided a steady anchor for a eurozone struggling to end bouts of financial instability and put an end to questions about its survival as a well-functioning monetary union (one that aspires to becoming much more).
Current indications, albeit incomplete, suggest that the three will continue to anchor the global economy in 2013.
The bad news is that their anchor may remain both tentative and insufficient to restore the level of growth and financial stability to which billions of people aspire.
They were the anchor of society, acting in effect as priests, teachers, and judges.
But, while such a system could balance competition with cooperation, it would lack an anchor to ensure stability.
Many studies suggest that it is becoming more difficult than ever to anchor expectations about long-term growth trends.
Rather than remaining concentrations of desperate, dispossessed, and vulnerable people waiting for a day of return that may never come, refugee settlements should be fundamentally reconceived – as hubs of education, enterprise, and equal rights that can anchor networks of relatives and friends that extend back home and around the world.
Instead of stable guidelines with a well-defined monetary (exchange rate) anchor and a firm mandate to complete financial liberalization, China’s macroeconomic and financial decision making will be ad hoc and anybody’s guess – as was true, and still is, for Japan.
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