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As businesses struggle to compensate for falling domestic revenue by increasing their global market share, resisting temptation becomes increasingly difficult.
Colombian domestic politics should now move to the forefront of attention, because peace processes are vulnerable to public opinion.
By successfully charting its own course, Brazil has created a broad domestic consensus behind a balanced, democratic, market economy.
With developing countries finding it difficult to deter massive capital inflows or mitigate the effects – owing to economic constraints, like high inflation, or to domestic politics – the “currency wars” metaphor, coined in 2010 by Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, has resonated widely.
Finally, local-currency bond markets – and, more generally, domestic capital markets – in emerging economies must be explored further, in order to lengthen the tenure of financial flows.
This suggests that domestic reforms aimed at reducing issuance costs, improving disclosure requirements, enhancing creditors’ rights frameworks, and tackling other inhibiting factors could bring high returns.
Foreign policy isn’t just about cutting a good figure on the international stage and otherwise focusing on the next domestic election.
But, as is true of many political leaders, especially on the nationalistic right, they are chauvinistic provincials whose concerns are almost entirely domestic.
Like Putin, he is driving himself and his country into further isolation for entirely domestic reasons.
Setting aside the external impact on the global economy, the damage to domestic stability and growth from anything other than a short-term technical default would be so severe that the political system (and both parties with it) could not withstand the backlash.
Domestic and foreign holders of US Treasury bills would regard a deliberate, unforced default as a betrayal of trust.
Now we can see that the global economy is dependent not only on the strength of the reserve-currency country, but also on its values – particularly, on its continued willingness to put critical international commitments ahead of domestic disputes.
For starters, it will reinforce the notion that policies and policy disputes are to be conducted with a view to domestic issues and interests, independent of the systemic global effects – even as those effects grow larger.
Indeed, some factions within the US political system do not appear to understand the large adverse feedback effects on the domestic economy from a disruption in the global financial system.
Third, the willingness to hold America’s creditworthiness hostage for domestic political purposes will almost surely accelerate the decline of US influence in global economic governance and management.
In the end, no one wants the global system to be vulnerable to a single country’s domestic political fights.
In May 2008, it demonstrated its domestic dominance by taking over the capital, Beirut.
Perhaps anticipating these domestic vulnerabilities, Hezbollah encouraged and joined the resumption of National Dialogue discussions involving all of Lebanon’s main communities.
But unless and until he gets his hands as dirty with European politics as he seems willing to do for the sake of domestic French reforms, those dialogues will remain ephemeral, if not just plain hot air.
As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.
Indeed, the domestic crackdown on human-rights activists undercut the soft-power gains of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.
What is at stake is not protecting domestic producers, but protecting our planet.
Moreover, the dollar’s appreciation relative to other currencies has reduced import costs, putting competitive pressure on domestic firms to reduce prices.
But it would help maximize the benefits of domestic reforms.
In many places where the labor market remains out of balance, domestic action is required to strengthen economic potential and improve access to employment.
There is no doubt that China has increasingly been interfering in Hong Kong’s domestic affairs.
Although Japan paid much of the costs of that war by raising domestic taxes, its supportive actions went largely unnoticed.
And Rousseff’s use of revenues from the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras to fund domestic social programs has caused the firm’s share price to halve – alienating oil investors.
Gross Domestic WellbeingLONDON – During a 2008 discussion of the global financial crisis at the London School of Economics, Queen Elizabeth II famously floored a room full of financial heavyweights by asking, “Why did no one see it coming?”
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