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With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, the West identified common goals for countries facing the difficult post-communist transition to democracy and a market economy.
This was followed the next day by a further 1.9% decline, and then, over succeeding months, by a series of sharp one-day drops that were precursors to the 22.6%
collapse
on October 19, 1987 – the largest-ever one-day correction.
Thus, he compares 2.6% growth in 2014 with the 4.3% contraction in 2009, which he describes as “the last full year of Labour government” – as though Labour policy produced the
collapse
in growth.
Similarly, “At no point after May 2010 did [confidence] sink back to where it had been throughout the last two years of Gordon Brown’s catastrophic premiership” – as though the Brown government’s performance caused business confidence to
collapse.
In Argentina, the banking system came close to collapse, causing the government to ban bank withdrawals – introducing the so-called corralito, or bullpen, for deposits – and establishing capital controls.
The Argentine experience suggests that, after the run on bank deposits, the saga’s next installment is monetary
collapse.
The troubling fact about the Great Depression is that it was severe, global, and lasted over a decade – and that it followed the
collapse
of an equity and real-estate boom, roughly as happened before the current crisis.
Similarly, after the
collapse
of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) in 1991, the transition countries quickly redirected their foreign trade to the West.
The Soviet Union’s collapse, it should be remembered, was not the result of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s reformist “betrayal.”
The fourth factor undermining Brazil’s economic performance arose unexpectedly last year, when a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal engulfed the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, prompting a far-reaching investigation of high-level politicians and triggering a
collapse
of private investment.
Recovery from the
collapse
of 2008 has been unexpectedly slow.
To be sure, most academic disciplines have become highly specialized since Mill’s day; and, since the
collapse
of theology, no field of study has aimed to understand the human condition as a whole.
So when will this promised dollar
collapse
and crisis come?
They then tended to
collapse
more quickly than anyone could believe.
And for the island’s eastern neighbors, plagued by unspeakable violence, an accord would serve as a demonstration that the demons unleashed by the
collapse
of the Ottoman Empire can be peacefully put to rest.
Another factor in Greece’s economic
collapse
is less obvious: the contraction of bank credit.
This attempt, ironically, set the stage for the ensuing
collapse.
All countries experienced a deep crisis, and virtually all went into economic
collapse.
In the economy, the near universal conventional wisdom after the
collapse
of the banking system, was that the market had failed and the state had to step in.
The fiscal and monetary stimuli were important in themselves, but even more so because they indicated that the strength of government was going to be utilised to prevent contagion and further
collapse.
One could by no means rule out “a return of the world economic crisis and the
collapse
of the world economic order of 1929-1933.”
The only reason the US trade deficit is falling is that the country remains in a severe recession, causing US imports and exports to
collapse
in parallel.
With nearly 900 million chronically hungry people around the globe, the Summit presents an opportunity to reverse the
collapse
of financial assistance for food production to poor countries.
Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, though a very interesting reference point for analysts of the Arab revolutions, is not an appropriate reference point, because the region’s new domestic and foreign order resulted from the change in external conditions stemming from the
collapse
of Soviet power.
Just as a two-party system ensures stability and predictability, so might its
collapse
contribute to radical social change.
Asians need not be pessimistic; the perfect storm of a hard landing in China, a double-dip recession in the United States, and a
collapse
of the eurozone is unlikely.
So a bold new assistance program should be designed for the region, modeled on the Marshall Plan in Western Europe after WWII, or on the support offered to Eastern Europe after the
collapse
of the Berlin Wall.
Encumbered by slowing growth in China, a
collapse
in commodity prices, and adverse spillover from numerous security crises, Africa’s overall annual GDP growth averaged just 3.3% in 2010-2015, barely keeping up with population growth – and down sharply from the 4.9% recorded from 2000 to 2008.
Considering the enormous social programs to which these countries’ governments were committed, it did not take long for the price
collapse
to take its toll.
Of course, regimes with different ideological inclinations might have had different spending habits, potentially cushioning the blow from the commodity-price
collapse.
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