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Reinvigorating Egypt’s EconomyNEWPORT BEACH – Some two years into Egypt’s grass-roots revolution, the country’s economy is in a worrisome downward spiral.
Meanwhile, the government’s policies to tackle corruption, overcapacity, excess local-government debt, and pollution have put downward pressure on investment, consumption, and the government’s capacity to deliver its promised growth rate.
In November, the annual price growth was just 0.3%, while the recent collapse in oil prices will generate further downward pressure in the coming months.
The persistent downward pressure on the renminbi reflects a growing fear that Chinese policymakers have no coherent solution to the dilemmas they face.
Since 2004, I have been saying that the situation, once it started, would probably become clear within a year: we would know whether the global economy would right itself or begin a downward spiral.
Disaster Capitalism Comes to Puerto RicoNEW YORK – It has been more than a year since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, compounding the agony of a commonwealth that was already caught in an economic downward spiral.
But none should distract attention from the important goal of identifying a new policy framework, based on existential common interests, that can stop the downward spiral in relations and stabilize Euro-Atlantic security.
Unfortunately, the ongoing economic crisis is exerting downward pressure on defense budgets across NATO, exposing the need for greater cooperation among the alliance's European members.
The risk of a vicious, self-reinforcing downward spiral would rise sharply.
We are endlessly presented with stories of soaring temperatures, but over the past year, we’ve experienced the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, and it’s been downward.
Better than BaselROME – The Basel Accords – meant to protect depositors and the public in general from bad banking practices – exacerbated the downward economic spiral triggered by the financial crisis of 2008.
The regime can still stop Venezuela’s downward spiral, and Venezuelans have shown clearly that they are determined to fight for their country’s future.
The Great Recession has exacerbated inequality, with cutbacks in basic social expenditures and with high unemployment putting downward pressure on wages.
The peak ratio and the subsequent downward trajectory depend crucially on the assumed pace of economic growth.
Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.
Ireland is doing better, although its growth forecast has also been revised downward, to just under 0.5% in 2012 and 1.4% next year.
Each downward revision implies postponement of the date on which the debt/GDP ratio will peak.
The stronger dollar not only lowers the cost of imports, but also puts downward pressure on the prices of domestic products that compete with imports.
The downward price trend in the US market, for example, does not seem to reflect underlying changes in long-run economic confidence.
With high unemployment in many parts of the labor market, downward pressure on wages will further exacerbate the country’s already skewed income-distribution.Labor markets will eventually clear, but this will happen slowly and painfully, owing to skills gaps and other short-term mismatches.
The reason for Li’s inaction emerged in early June, when Chinese President Xi Jinping told his American counterpart, Barack Obama, that China had deliberately revised its growth target downward, to 7.5%, in order to pursue structural reforms aimed at supporting stable and sustained economic development.
Nor are these claims based on the Chinese stock market, which has generally followed a downward path over the past few years.
The studies we examined show that, in terms of wages, immigrants from close neighboring countries put a small amount of downward pressure on the wages of low-skill natives.
This central bank patience risks de-anchoring inflation expectations downward.
In fact, if overcapacity is allowed to continue putting downward pressure on prices, China’s economic growth will not stabilize at a rate consistent with its potential; instead, the economy will be pushed into a vicious spiral of debt deflation.
While the integration of these economies may yield gains from trade for most countries, it created huge problems in the West, stemming from more intense downward pressure on the wages of the unskilled.
Politicians in the West react to the downward pressure on wages by making them even more rigid.
At a minimum, there could be an adverse impact on the terms by which America borrows from abroad; that could mean higher interest rates – hints of which are already evident – and ultimately downward pressure on the dollar.
After revising downward in July its growth projections for emerging countries, the IMF is about to do so again (though only moderately) ahead of the Annual Meetings.
And, in the face of a recessionary crisis that turned out to be roughly twice as large as was forecast at the end of 2008, such limited action was not enough to keep the US unemployment rate below 10% – or even set it on a downward trajectory.
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