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The eurozone’s experience during the recent financial crisis – especially when contrasted with that of the United States – highlighted the need for rapid, flexible decision-making by governments, not just monetary authorities.
The government’s recent record is depressing: in just a few months, the authorities have imposed several new repressive laws, forced influential journalists out of their jobs, and prosecuted human-rights defenders, mayors, lawyers, and prominent politicians.
It is almost unanimously recognized that Argentina was badly handled, with recovery beginning only after the authorities abandoned the IMF's strictures.
Lending resumed when the authorities made it clear that Argentina would rather default than let the IMF continue to dictate policies that had contributed to disaster in the first place.
For example, the Swiss authorities began in 2009 to intervene in currency markets in an effort to stem the franc’s relentless appreciation against the euro, which was threatening the country’s export-dependent economy.
Meanwhile, Brazilian authorities also faced currency appreciation – the real appreciated by 40% against the dollar in 2009-2011 – as well as rising inflation.
Calm has returned to financial markets, amid ironclad assurances by the European Union authorities – particularly the European Central Bank – that the monetary union will be preserved.
Not surprisingly, given the EU authorities’ obvious inability to end the malaise, many member states are losing patience with austerity.
So why are the authorities in Berlin, Brussels, and the other EU capitals still not willing to change their policies, which quite obviously have made a bad situation worse?
To level the playing field, local or national authorities should require the company to integrate tax-collection software into its app.
This could amount to a powerful refutation of the tactic, adopted by countries like Italy, of aggressively confronting the EU authorities.
In earlier times, such controversies were decided by political authorities, which used military force to impose one particular point of view at the expense of all others.
Today, it is clear that fundamentalists and their supporters are completely closed off to even the most elaborate theological refutation of their views, even when produced by distinguished religious authorities.
Invariably, fundamentalists dismiss religious critiques of their views as evidence that religious authorities have been corrupted by hostile influences.
The government placed the blame on local authorities; the local authorities blamed the government for allocating inadequate resources; and inmates of the institutions still look out at the world through windows that are locked and barred.
The project that led to the birth of the euro was inspired by Mundell's ideas and by the acknowledgment of the importance of efficient rules for regulating the interaction between government authorities, like central banks, and the rest of society.
By removing the exchange rate and interest rates from the direct control of Italian authorities, the plague of high inflation and high interest rates disappeared.
This does not necessarily imply that Italian authorities were bad or inept, only that the rules governing monetary and fiscal policymaking in Europe before the EMU were no longer appropriate for the highly fluent capital markets that had developed over the previous two decades.
Later, domestic investors were added to the list of suspects, and the Chinese authorities announced a rigorous investigation into the source of short selling.
In other words, the authorities fueled a bubble.
Ignoring the lessons of the recent crash would be a serious mistake – one that China’s pragmatic and tenacious authorities will be determined to avoid.
After the regulatory authorities intervened in May, annual exports to Hong Kong rose by only 7.7%, down sharply from the 57% increase reported in April.
But what most characterizes Latin America’s experience is that, despite publicly preaching the virtues of a floating rate, the authorities actively intervene in currency markets, this time in different and creative ways.
In Kenya, Tax Inspectors Without Borders, a project led by the OECD, found that every dollar spent working with authorities on cracking down on tax avoidance produced $1,290 in increased revenues.
His 60-point plan included reforms of fiscal policy and the financial sector that would set market interest rates on loans and deposits, permit some private-investor participation in state-owned enterprises, increase the role of small and medium-size enterprises, loosen labor restrictions, and introduce property taxes to boost revenue for local authorities.
Such remarks from senior military authorities suggest that Obama’s warnings may be hollow.
The authorities must also contend with threats from Islamist insurgents from Chechnya, who are now operating in other North Caucasian republics, a mere 200 miles from Sochi.
The Japanese authorities got lucky: When the pilot landed first in South Korea, the hijackers released their 129 hostages in exchange for permission to continue to Pyongyang, where they gained asylum.
While there is arguably a genuine possibility that the recent protests in Tibet will prompt the authorities to change course, early signs are not promising.
Independent national authorities would be better placed not only to assess implementation risks, but also to advocate for structural reforms.
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