Balance
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There are limits in China’s socialist market economy, but they lie on the liability side of banks’
balance
sheets, not on the asset side.
The fact that China, within a decade, has overhauled Africa’s
balance
of power, relegating the US and the UK to third and fourth place and challenging France for first place as the continent’s main economic and commercial partner, has irked these competitors.
(As one-half of the alliance that will play the largest role in defining the East Asian
balance
of power in the coming decades, Japan will also play a vital strategic role.)
But the
balance
of economic power between the two is changing, and fast.
There are other instruments available for increasing domestic saving and reducing consumption besides the fiscal
balance.
External accounts clearly matter, because they reflect the
balance
between domestic saving and investment.
In Spain, Portugal, and Greece, the deficit has been reduced by more than seven percentage points of GDP since 2007, and in Ireland the current-account
balance
has swung into surplus.
To recover and return to both internal and external balance, they must not only close the cost gap, but actually reverse it, thereby generating the trade surpluses needed to repay the foreign debt that they accumulated in the meantime.
Because the ECB has already been using its
balance
sheet to help bring down borrowing costs in the eurozone’s periphery, it has been cautious in its approach to monetary easing.
Because the current-account
balance
is the difference between the investment and savings rates, the decline in investment will generate large surpluses unless savings also decline.
If Europe’s biggest problem is that it is divided along national borders, then liberal-leaning countries like France and Germany could try to change the
balance
of power within increasingly illiberal countries.
In our book Exceptional People, we demonstrate that, on balance, they bring great benefit to their host societies.
And it embarked on an unprecedented expansion of its
balance
sheet under the guise of quantitative easing.
When financial stability hung in the
balance
in 1933, the Reserve Banks' failure to cooperate prevented effective action.
Navigating the mining industry’s resource nexus will require new governance models that can
balance
extraction practices with emerging energy needs – like those envisioned by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
What is needed is careful consideration of how best to
balance
humanitarian imperatives with security concerns, domestic social welfare with international legal obligations, and member countries’ duties to one another with their responsibilities to their own citizens.
The West had only one opponent, and both sides understood the rules of the game (that is, the logic of the
balance
of terror).
What’s the optimal
balance
between replicability and the human touch?
But several emerging trends, unobserved or noted only in isolation, have greatly altered the
balance
of power between the CCP and Chinese society, with the former losing credibility and control and the latter gaining strength and confidence.
Part of the answer lies in free market reforms undertaken in America, Britain and parts Europe, that made them more competitive by shifting the
balance
of power from labour and consumption to capital and investment.
Banks’
balance
sheets still have a relatively low volume of non-performing loans (and high provisioning).
The fight is on between the two French titans—Trichet and Sarkozy—with the fate of Europe’s central bank hanging in the
balance.
But it has also written and adopted a new constitution structured to encourage the separation and
balance
of powers, and it seems on track to pull off a successful change in government.
The Commission’s report asserts unequivocally that the world’s refugee protection system should be strengthened, not least by reaching an effective consensus on the
balance
between the right to movement and the power of states to restrict it – with the long-term objective of a new international convention that supports Sustainable Development Goal 10.7, which commits states to “facilitate safe, orderly, regular, and responsible migration.”
In austerity-bound Europe, where banks are nursing their credit business to re-build their own
balance
sheets, underwriting entrepreneurial initiatives would kick-start growth.
The EU’s special representative in the South Caucasus, Swedish diplomat Peter Semneby, played a crucial role in bringing back Imedi TV in time to restore media
balance
ahead of the presidential election – possibly the first time that the EU took a leading role in seminal political events in Georgia.
Because financial institutions held much of these securities, their market values declined as well, leaving
balance
sheets in need of restructuring, particularly given their highly leveraged capital structures.
Anyone who has studied economic performance since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, understands that damage to
balance
sheets – such as excess debt and unfunded non-debt liabilities – can cause growth slowdowns, sudden stops, or even reversals.
And those familiar with growth in developing countries know that underinvestment in human capital, infrastructure, and the economy’s knowledge and technology base eventually produces
balance
sheets that cannot support continued growth.
The essential concept of a
balance
between integration and the nation-state is widely shared.
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