Balance
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A better method of seeking
balance
is to give developing countries greater access to global markets, including those of other developing countries.
At some point, the yields on bonds and mortgages will be high enough that investors’ appetite for yield will
balance
their fear of exchange-rate depreciation.
Constitutions provide modest checks, but private associations of professionals, religions, and regions – the heart of civil society – provide the deeper
balance.
Here the West helped with initial
balance
of payments funds and later with debt cancellation.
As the recent crises in advanced countries demonstrated, this is not a safe assumption: Unsustainable public debt and fiscal deficits forced central banks to expand their
balance
sheets massively, causing benchmark rates to turn negative in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
Preventing this from occurring in emerging economies requires that these countries’ leaders
balance
monetary, fiscal, and macro-prudential policies in a way that enables correct pricing of risk-free assets.
Striking this
balance
is made even more complicated by the influence of advanced-country policies on emerging economies.
East Asia needs to maintain a fine
balance
of political-security requirements in much the same way.
The US, for its part, must
balance
continued support for its conventional military forces, which remain an important deterrent in Asia and Europe, with investment in a broad portfolio of alternative capabilities that conflicts in the Middle East require.
When forming the councils, the opposition sought to achieve a
balance
between government experience, technical expertise, and tribal support.
This ongoing “Uberization” of the US labor market means that the
balance
in the wage-setting process has shifted.
Including the risk of excessive volatility in the global financial system tips the
balance
even further.
And companies can change how jobs are structured and remunerated to enhance flexibility, thereby helping both men and women
balance
work and family demands.
In the first two, the US reassures each of these region’s countries that there will be no sudden change in the
balance
of power that will threaten them.
Indeed, full-fledged “society”-building started only after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, which tipped the
balance
of power definitively in favor of the state.
Of course, there is an appealing logic to saying that governments should have to
balance
their budgets just like the rest of us; unfortunately, it is not so simple.
It is quite right to argue that governments should aim only to
balance
their budgets over the business cycle, running surpluses during booms and deficits when economic activity is weak.
Moreover, as was true in Poland, Burma’s opposition leaders must strike a delicate balance: satisfy their impatient supporters (many of whom have suffered mightily under the old regime), while offering those still in power the prospect of a worthwhile future.
As investors place their bets, the
balance
sheets of Greek banks and the Greek government will deteriorate further, which could cause bearish expectations to become self-fulfilling.
But the war in Georgia split the Ukrainian political class three ways, between those who favored alignment with the West, those who favored Russia, and those who preferred a policy of
balance.
It was a small step from there to assuming that extending capitalism to the post-Soviet world would continue to shift the
balance
of power in the West’s direction.
In a country like Russia, half of whose budget revenues are derived from taxes on oil, setting up an oil fund is the equivalent of a commitment to
balance
the budget over the cycle.
Government taxes and spending are set to
balance
at the average oil price over a period of years.
As every economics student learns, the trade
balance
depends on the difference between domestic saving and domestic investment.
But if the border tax adjustment would not improve the US trade balance, why are congressional Republicans eager to enact it?
There is substantial opposition to the border tax adjustment among US importers who are not convinced that the dollar will strengthen enough to
balance
the higher implicit import tax.
Indeed, Gulf politics is shifting toward a new
balance
in the wake of the Saudi-UAE rapprochement and the recent attempt to isolate Qatar.
Governments need to reassess this balance, and adopt reforms that unlock the potential of private businesses to grow and take on more employees.
From being the region’s losers of the last few decades, the Shia now have the chance to redress the balance, settle old scores - and control the wealth of Petrolistan.
If borrowers default on their off-balance-sheet loans, banks might choose to protect their reputations by covering the difference using internal funds, thereby transferring the risk onto their
balance
sheets and increasing the NPL ratio.
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