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Given the strength and territorial
concentration
of Iraq’s Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish communities, any successful Iraqi government must find ways to rule the country through inter-communal consensus.
Households have cut their debt and rebuilt their balance sheets, but the large loss in household wealth, weak growth in wages and income, the
concentration
of most income gains at the top, and a decline in labor’s share of national income to record lows continue to constrain consumption.
In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) determined that Delhi has the world’s worst air quality (based on
concentration
of fine particulate matter), with Indian cities occupying the top four spots and 13 of the top 18.
In the view of Okinawans, they have been unfairly burdened since 1945 by the
concentration
of American forces on the island, which has resulted in fatal aircraft crashes and crimes against residents by US troops, including the brutal rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen in 1995.
Then there is geography: France’s massive urban
concentration
around the capital – Paris and its suburbs contain nearly 20% of the population – is unique in Europe.
An increasing
concentration
of income at the top, combined with top earners’ high propensity to save, then leads to the chronic shortfall of aggregate demand that characterizes secular stagnation.
Stiglitz makes the case that policy bias also contributes to income
concentration.
The intertwined forces of chronic Keynesian imbalance, a slowdown in productivity growth, and a
concentration
of income at the top lead to a very subdued outlook for growth in median income.
But now both governments appear to have recognized the growing risk of unintended conflict in the seas and airspace around the disputed territories, given the sheer
concentration
of naval and air assets in a limited space and the absence of effective protocols to manage incidents and prevent them from escalating.
But they reserve the right to set the rules on
concentration
requirements and exams.
But it also implies that the single-minded
concentration
of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on fiscal adjustment in the EU periphery is misguided.
In other words, while South Asia’s economies have not underperformed on poverty reduction, merely matching global trends may not be enough for the region with the world’s largest
concentration
of poor people.
I believe that across the globe, America is a symbolic
concentration
of all the good and bad within our civilization -- from the fantastic development of science and technology, to civil liberty and strong democratic institutions, to the cult of perpetual economic growth and never-ending consumption, to the dictates of materialism and the voiding of human uniqueness by the uniformity of the round-the-clock noise of TV banality.
Mismanaged globalization and financialization, as well as tax cuts for the rich – including the cut in capital-gains tax (overwhelmingly benefiting those at the very top) during the Clinton and Bush administrations – were major causes of accelerating
concentration
of income and wealth.
A New Course for Economic LiberalismGENEVA – Since the Agrarian Revolution, technological progress has always fueled opposing forces of diffusion and
concentration.
Diffusion occurs as old powers and privileges corrode;
concentration
occurs as the power and reach of those who control new capabilities expands.
Already, the tension between diffusion and
concentration
is intensifying at all levels of the economy.
But this diffusion occurred in parallel with an equally stark
concentration.
Such
concentration
effects go a long way toward explaining rising economic inequality.
Research by Cesar Hidalgo and his colleagues at MIT reveals that, in countries where sectoral
concentration
has declined in recent decades, such as South Korea, income inequality has fallen.
In those where sectoral
concentration
has intensified, such as Norway, inequality has risen.
These decisions played a major role in enabling a new wave of globalization, which increasingly diffused growth and wealth across countries, but also laid the groundwork for the
concentration
of income and wealth within countries.
Policymakers now need a new approach that resists excessive concentration, which may create efficiency gains, but also allows firms to hoard profits and invest less.
To counter such concentration, policymakers should, first, implement smarter competition laws that focus not only on market share or pricing power, but also on the many forms of rent extraction, from copyright and patent rules that allow incumbents to cash in on old discoveries to the misuse of network centrality.
Neoliberal economics has reached a breaking point, causing the traditional left-right political divide to be replaced by a different split: between those seeking forms of growth that are less inclined toward extreme
concentration
and those who want to end
concentration
by closing open markets and societies.
As the game clock ticked down, the team’s
concentration
seemed to wane.
To the US, China is a big-data dictatorship that has detained one million Uighurs in
concentration
camps, cracked down on Christians, curtailed civil rights, and destroyed the environment – all while building up its military and threatening America’s regional allies.
In particular, China’s spectacular income growth has been enabled by a delicate balance between the
concentration
of political power in the hands of the central leadership and the delegation of economic management to local authorities.
The Fifth Republic has, however, since come to be seen by many as enshrining an unsatisfactory
concentration
of powers.
On the contrary, because they lock in incumbents’ advantages and drive up the costs of new technology, such protections are associated with less new or follow-on innovation, weaker diffusion, and increased market
concentration.
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