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The crisis struck domestic demand, and the tradable sector was incapacitated, because the rapid rise in relative unit labor costs, combined with an over-valued euro, had undermined competitiveness.
Moreover, the crisis-related damage to banks’ balance sheets constrained demand by severely limiting household credit and lending to small and medium-size businesses.
Second, both capital and labor needed to flow to the tradable sector, where demand constraints can be relaxed as relative productivity converges.
Indeed, though domestic investment is constrained by credit availability, major European and Latin American multinationals have begun investing in the Spanish economy, attracted partly by its enhanced competitive posture and structural flexibility, and, on a slightly longer time horizon, by a recovery in domestic demand.
There is no chance in either country that domestic demand alone will support sustained growth in the short to medium term.
While America benefits from increased demand for its Treasury bills (which reduces borrowing costs), developing countries receive a return of just 2% - essentially zero in real terms.
Global greenbacks would offset the deflationary bias in today's arrangements that results from the fact that part of the income set aside as reserves never gets translated into global aggregate demand.
This is important because the US might oppose any plan that undermines demand for Treasury bills (and thus its guaranteed access to low-cost financing).
But strategic reductions of wages to ever lower levels (the Uberization of society) cannot be rational, because the result would be a catastrophic collapse, owing to disappearing aggregate demand.
This powerful consumer base will demand the products – such as housing, appliances, automobiles, and computers – that European consumers demanded over the last 50 years.
With a stable power supply, Nigeria’s economy could grow 8-12% annually, according to Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, strengthening the middle class and, in turn, increasing demand for European products.
But will this do enough to stem the slowdown in an economy that has become hooked on external demand in recent years?
Computers mean that higher-skill workers – and the lower-skill workers who remain to oversee the large robotic factories and warehouses – can spend their time on more valuable activities, assisted by computers that demand little.
What really matters is whether the jobs outside of the robot-computer economy – jobs involving people’s mouths, smiles, and minds – remain valuable and in high demand.
And rising real incomes increased leisure time, thereby boosting demand for smiles and the products of minds.
Others also certainly worry about secular decline, though most have emphasized the supply side rather than the demand side.
Of course, structural reform is essential after a financial crisis, as are policies to maintain aggregate demand while the economy heals.
But determining how to bring peace and stability to Libya’s deeply fragmented society will require more than an assessment of this government’s mistakes; it will demand careful consideration of former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s failures – and his successes.
For this reason, perpetrators of serious human-rights violations on all sides should be held accountable, a demand that has been pointedly ignored since 2001.
This reduced households’ purchasing power and weakened aggregate demand, while diminishing the devaluation’s overall impact on the country’s external competitiveness.
But will Chinese demand for commodities be enough to sustain high prices for the region’s exports in the coming years?
During the last two decades, four factors combined to generate a sharp increase in world demand for commodities: rapid growth in global GDP, increasing urbanization in developing countries, a rise in population at a rate of 800 million people per decade, and a significant decrease in poverty.
To answer that question, several variables must be taken into account: demand growth, technological change, investment, and the commitment to confront global warming, among others.
Bearing in mind such complexity, let’s consider only some determinants of demand that are linked to increased income.
Two factors appear to be the most important: China’s growth rate in the coming years, and whether its growth will be sufficient to maintain high levels of global demand for commodities.
Moreover, although fiscal and monetary stimulus in China can compensate in the short term for weaker export demand, this will not be enough to sustain demand growth without economic “normalization” in the developed countries.
In the medium and longer term, the expected and hoped-for increase in China’s domestic consumption should be the most dynamic element of demand, with export growth continuing to slacken and investment remaining – except for brief periods – below 50% of GDP.
That trend will have a differentiated effect on demand for cereals and soy relative to other products that are more closely linked to higher incomes, such as foods containing higher-quality protein, metals, and oil.
In terms of the latter products, China might continue to be decisive for global demand growth.
Managers can demand higher and higher returns in the upturn.
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