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The central bank would make it clear that it stands ready – provided that the reforms are real and the commitment to subsequent fiscal consolidation is credible – to serve as a “backstop for government funding” (as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi put it in August).
The European Union must also begin to put in place a more credible and capable defense policy.
The name of the game, then, is to persuade consumers that the rise in inflation will be temporary, and for that a credible and strong fiscal anchor is key.
We can do more to end child labor, child marriage, child trafficking, and discrimination against girls, by not only demanding the proper policing of domestic laws, but also by establishing a new International Children’s Court, buttressed by a credible reporting and sanctions system.
To be effective and persuasive, however, such fear often requires a rational, seemingly credible argument.
To this end, and to facilitate a withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, the region’s countries must create a credible template for reconciliation.
Indeed, simply by providing a credible backstop against the risk of a eurozone collapse, the scheme has become one of the most successful measures introduced by any central bank in recent history.
The main challenge to the euro’s long-term viability is the lack of political will to implement complementary policies, such as a banking union and a credible fiscal union.
The second condition that must be satisfied before elections can be credible is security.
Instead, they must concentrate on reinforcing the common currency’s inherent strengths, not least by formulating a credible plan to clean up the bad loans on Italian and Portuguese banks’ balance sheets.
But, as the Greek crisis demonstrated, this is not a credible threat.
One reason why democracy might matter for international currency status is that democratically elected governments are best able to make the credible commitments needed to develop deep and liquid financial markets.
Providing a credible security force to cope with all of these risks would cost about $2 billion annually, but the benefits – from a significant reduction in the risk of conflict and faster economic growth – are between 11.5 and 39 times higher.
So they cannot repeat the same formula in Prague and remain credible in both Russia and Eastern Europe;- EU enlargement takes time while Nato enlargement is relatively speedy.
Even within the US, cities, states, and businesses, as well as a host of civil-society organizations, have signaled a credible commitment to fulfilling America’s climate obligations, with or without the federal government.
Austerity’s advocates rely on one – and only one – argument: If fiscal contraction is part of a credible “consolidation” program aimed at permanently reducing the share of government in GDP, business expectations will be so encouraged by the prospect of lower taxes and higher profits that the resulting economic expansion will more than offset the contraction in demand caused by cuts in public spending.
In the absence of a credible and readily available political alternative, deadlock will likely continue, with the pace of change slower than the population demands.
Trump has claimed that he will disentangle himself from his business to avoid conflicts of interests, while offering no credible plan for doing so.
First, a credible policy agenda needs firm targets with clear deadlines.
Doing so will also require ensuring appropriate governance, predictable pricing structures, and a credible regulatory environment.
Economic forecasting is notoriously difficult; but, notwithstanding the truth expressed in Harry Truman’s request for a one-armed economist (who wouldn’t be able to say “on the other hand”), my record has been credible.
It also needs deficit countries (and the advanced countries more generally) to develop and enact credible growth strategies that involve structural change as well as fiscal stabilization.
But, to perform this function, it needs a knowledgeable, credible, and effective secretariat.
It will stop spreading only when Germany constructs a firm and credible firewall, presumably around Spanish and Italian central-government debt.
It therefore wants to see a credible program for balancing the US budget once the recession ends.
And, tough talk notwithstanding, the Obama administration has yet to offer a credible roadmap for fiscal consolidation.
That will leave no one with any credible reason to delay resumption of the six-party talks.
Granted, it is not easy to create methods of keeping score that are credible across the spectrum of reasonable opinion.
Back in 2008, for example, Aleh Tsyvinski and I praised then-President Medvedev for his seemingly credible commitment to implementing the changes that Russia’s economy needs.
While China’s ongoing capital flight is fueling an immediate and substantial decline in demand for US Treasuries, a more sustainable scenario would entail China’s transition to a managed floating exchange-rate regime with a deeper domestic financial market – and less emphasis on maintaining a credible war chest of foreign reserves.
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