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After all, Obama’s entire foreign-policy agenda – a nuclear deal with Iran, an Israel-Palestine peace agreement, reconciliation with estranged allies in the Middle East, and America’s strategic pivot toward Asia – now hinges on his
capacity
to tame Putin.
Israel, by contrast, failed to achieve any of its goals – beginning with restoring its deterrent
capacity.
With every month that the economy loses productive capacity, the likelihood of stagnation and deflation rises.
These lack the scale to be efficient, the ability to exploit modern information technology, and the
capacity
to undertake research and development.
Likewise, Modi told schoolchildren in 2014 that climate change is not an environmental problem; it is, instead, a matter of human beings’
capacity
to cope with heat and cold, which changes over time.
Investment enhances productive capacity, while serving, in the context of structural change, as the leading transmission mechanism for technological innovations.
The massive injection of liquidity into China’s economy has contributed to rising debt, especially among local governments and firms, while fueling massive real-estate bubbles, and resulting in significant excess
capacity.
Over the last 18 months, Li’s government has been attempting to address these challenges, by overhauling China’s industrial structure, reducing excess production capacity, restricting lending, containing the shadow banking sector, and curbing real-estate investment.
Such a Chinese “Marshall Plan” could seek to strengthen developing countries’
capacity
to absorb Chinese goods, or it could advance a broader development agenda.
China’s continued development demands that it continues to enlarge its
capacity
and influence in foreign assistance.
(If the number of refugees turned out to be beyond Australia’s capacity, a regional approach could be developed later, involving resettlement in other countries.)
To begin with, the
capacity
to dismantle and destroy nuclear warheads is limited, and likely to remain so.
Current
capacity
is roughly 500 weapons annually in both Russia and the US, which means that the total of 2,000 weapons each that the ICNND Report suggests for the year 2025 cannot be fully implemented much before 2028.
Its entrepreneurial
capacity
is expanding.
More realistically, large corporations are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars – indeed, trillions if aggregated across the advanced economies – because they already have too much
capacity.
By undermining companies’
capacity
to maximize the efficiency of labor and capital allocation – the driving motivation behind offshoring – the BAT would produce large welfare costs for the US and the global economy.
The Stability and Growth Pact has been relaxed in order to increase governments’
capacity
to borrow to recapitalize their banks.
In small countries, where a significant share of bank liabilities is in someone else’s currency, the national central bank lacks this
capacity.
This did not work very well, because investment was constrained by deficient domestic aggregate demand relative to
capacity.
The export portion increased the most – by nearly six-fold, from 6% in 1980 to a pre-crisis peak of 35% in 2007 – as new
capacity
and infrastructure, low-cost labor, and accession to the World Trade Organization made China the world’s greatest beneficiary of accelerating globalization and surging trade flows.
Notwithstanding the unfinished business of consumer-led rebalancing, China now appears to be embracing yet another shift in its core economic strategy – driven by a broad array of “supply-side initiatives” that range from
capacity
reduction and deleveraging to innovation and productivity.
But that seems unlikely, partly because the US demands are either beyond China’s
capacity
to deliver (such as a substantial reduction in the bilateral imbalance) or are too fuzzy to be verifiable in the short term (such as ending forced technology transfer).
It is often assumed that everyone recoils at the prospect that there are genetic limits to our
capacity
for change.
It also presumes that they will have the
capacity
to do so – the ability question.
But, if implemented correctly, sound regulation can strengthen countries’ growth capacity, while protecting citizens and improving their long-term living standards.
They have demonstrated a genuine
capacity
to withstand the effects of crisis, owing to their flexible capital base and limited involvement in the international financial system.
Another option would be to increase public spending in military procurement and infrastructure, though military procurement is a long-term process, and more infrastructure investment would be difficult at a time when the construction industry is running at full
capacity.
For example, we will double the installed
capacity
of wind energy and expand our biomass exchange this year.
This disparity represents an important opportunity for countries like the US and Japan, which are trying to discipline a delinquent China in the South China Sea by demonstrating their overwhelming naval power – and thus their
capacity
to deny China access to key sea-lanes.
Having entered the 2008-2009 crisis with sound initial conditions (including large international reserves, budget and balance-of-payments surpluses, and highly capitalized banks), they are nowhere near exhausting their fiscal and financial flexibility – and hence their
capacity
to respond to future shocks.
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