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Achieving strong inclusive national-level growth to revive a declining middle class, kick-start stagnant incomes, and curtail high youth unemployment is now taking precedence.
Extending investment tax credits to German firms might be more effective in boosting spending, but doing so would be politically problematic in a country where labor’s share of national income is already declining.
So why do pundits continue to debate America’s supposedly declining global influence?
His steadfastness – and declining international interest in their struggle, as the world’s focus shifts to the Arab Spring’s Islamist winter – stymies any advance toward an agreement.
The gulf between GDP and domestic demand can be explained largely by a collapse in imports, which were 15% lower in the second quarter of 2015 than they were in the final quarter of 2007, owing to declining living standards, mass unemployment, and depressed investment.
Nominal GDP is lower than it was seven years ago, meaning that debt is being serviced from a stagnant or declining income.
This trend is exacerbated by the declining efficiency of financial resources in the state sector, a product of the soft budget constraint implied by easily accessible, cheap capital.
In this new world, China and Russia are back and America, though still on top, is declining.
Declining investment rates in Japan, the newly-industrializing Asian economies, and Latin America, in that order of importance, have fueled the flood of savings into US government bonds, US mortgage-backed securities, and US equity-backed loans – the capital-account equivalent of America’s enormous trade deficit.
One is that, facing declining growth, policymakers will resort to excess investment or leverage (or both), creating instability.
Continued isolation would have left the Cuban regime dangerously exposed, given the declining financial fortunes of its primary sponsor, petroleum-rich Venezuela.
Because it is difficult to become ever-more efficient at producing a ton of copper or a pound of fruit (and, in Chile’s case, the grade of copper ore is fast declining), further growth has to come from diversification: moving capital and labor to new sectors, where productivity is higher.
In its World Energy Outlook for 2010, the International Energy Agency argued that conventional oil production worldwide probably peaked in 2006, and is now declining.
That would mean a catastrophic loss of state revenues for today’s major Arab oil-producing countries, rendering them highly vulnerable to the compounding consequences of existing water shortages, rapid demographic expansion, climate change, and declining crop yields.
But in many places, budgets are stagnating, or even declining.
Most countries invest to measure GNP, but spend little to identify the sources of poor health (like fast foods and excessive TV watching), declining social trust, and environmental degradation.
But these are not structural deficits, and financial markets would be better informed and reassured if the ECB indicated the size of the real structural deficits and showed that they are now declining.
This makes all majorities against a governing chancellor highly dramatic, because they reflect his or her declining power.
Moreover, France’s unemployment rate is declining, though it remains much higher than Germany’s.
In a serious financial crisis, banks find that the declining market value of many of their assets leaves them short of capital.
The country’s population now numbers less than Pakistan’s and is declining by 500,000 people per year, leaving large portions of its vast landmass mostly uninhabited.
Amid all the attention being devoted to China and the potential for competition or even conflict with the US, it should not be forgotten that Russia’s future hangs in the balance, for history suggests that declining powers can pose as great a challenge to world order as rising ones.
But at least the West’s working class had access to cheap loans and inflated house prices to offset the impact of stagnant wages and declining fiscal transfers.
If policymakers implement a more comprehensive response, they can put their economies on a more stable and prosperous path – one of high inclusive growth, declining inequality, and genuine financial stability.
This is the paradox of NCDs: objective measures of poor health (severe symptoms, disability, premature death) are declining, even as the prevalence of these diseases is increasing.
Unfortunately, these corrections are not based on increased exports, but on declining imports, owing to depressed levels of economic activity.
In Jordan, a coalition led by the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists has launched a new campaign, “Talk is Not a Crime,” to raise awareness about declining media freedom.
With personal incomes rising strongly, poverty is declining, while 68% of Russia’s college-age youth now attend universities.
In South Korea, which has the world’s highest density of industrial robots – 631 per 10,000 workers – manufacturing employment is declining, and youth unemployment is high.
For its part, the US must recognize the correlation between its declining interest and influence in the Middle East and Israel’s current dilemma.
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