Cycle
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Instead, they would become mired in a
cycle
of declining global commodity prices and ever-dwindling income shares.
History suggests that the hope for a self-sustained recovery in Europe might well prove deceptive; almost always, the European economic
cycle
has followed and reinforced that of the US.
A Virtuous
Cycle
for ConservationNEW YORK – Poor and rural people around the world rely on plants and animals for shelter, food, income, and medicine.
In the right circumstances, a virtuous cycle, whereby local producers have a direct interest in protecting wildlife (because they are benefiting from its legal trade) is the best – and sometimes the only – long-term solution to the problem of sustainability.
One of the more problematic is the new European Semester, a
cycle
of economic-policy coordination that requires member states to submit early in the year their fiscal and structural reform plans, EU-funded and not, choosing from a menu of EU priorities.
Moreover, the International Monetary Fund’s recent upward revision of global growth data came at precisely the point in the
cycle
when the economy should be showing signs of slowing.
As the Nordic model shows, high employment is good for the economy because it ensures adequate tax revenues to finance high levels of social investment, which creates a virtuous
cycle.
Many European countries are now in a vicious
cycle
instead, with austerity policies worsening the problem of youth unemployment.
This bleak forecast marks the end of Colombia’s longest
cycle
of growth in three decades, leaving the country in the same fragile situation as that of many other developing economies.
Given the direct role development can play in exacerbating human-rights conditions in areas it affects, it is incumbent upon distributors of aid to stop the
cycle
of violence.
No reasonable person expects Greece ever to be able to pay off its debts, but the country has become trapped in a seemingly endless
cycle
of payments and bailouts – making it dependent on its donors for its very survival.
The long-term consequences of this
cycle
of dependence could be serious.
And yet, as long as the country remains locked in a
cycle
of codependence with its creditors, the state of perpetual crisis is likely to persist.
If that pain occurs against a backdrop of frustration with the unequal distribution of AI’s benefits, it may trigger a backlash against technologies that could otherwise produce a virtuous
cycle
of higher productivity, income growth, and employment-boosting demand.
These reductions in benefits are likely to perpetuate a
cycle
of bad planning and decision-making.
It is a vicious cycle; the more the poor are deprived of resources, the more damaging their decisions can become.
Most important, macroprudential regulation has been added to policymakers’ toolkit: simply put, it makes sense to vary banks’ capital requirements according to the financial
cycle.
Intensive discussions since September among Japanese government, business, and labor leaders have been geared toward setting in motion an upward, virtuous
cycle
whereby increased wages lead to more robust growth.
We concluded that advanced economies’ fiscal policies tended to be either independent of the business
cycle
(acyclical) or to lean in the opposite direction (countercyclical).
Built-in stabilizers, like unemployment insurance, are part of the story, but government outlays also worked to smooth the economic
cycle.
Of course, democracies have a long history of over-rewarding current voters at the expense of future generations, but the current scale and scope of fiscal largess is mistimed to both the trend and
cycle
of the US economy.
Fortunately, he was willing to reverse his decision and cut the tightening
cycle
short (over the protests of many on the policy-setting Federal Open Markets Committee) – a move that prevented the US economy from slipping back into recession.
The tightening
cycle
upon which the Fed now seems set to embark comes at a delicate time for the economy.
Today’s incoherent, piecemeal strategies will not break the
cycle
of violence.
Thanks to increased demand for labor, workers’ real wages – up 2.5% in the last year – have risen in this business
cycle
at the fastest rate since the early 1970s.
In the absence of a backstop for emerging-country finances, the doomsday scenario of a protectionist vicious
cycle
reminiscent of the 1930’s could no longer be ruled out.
Climate change directly affects the hydrological cycle, which means that all of the efforts that are undertaken to contain greenhouse-gas emissions will help to stabilize rainfall patterns and mitigate the extreme water events that so many regions are already experiencing.
Trump likes headlines and most likely he would prefer a favorable news
cycle
or two, given the recent gyrations in financial markets.
The up and down of lending represents a credit cycle, and credit cycles have played a major role in economic fluctuations for centuries.
But the credit
cycle
was not the ultimate cause of the 1870’s depression or the crisis we are seeing today.
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