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Driven by the labor arbitrage embedded in economic globalization and the rise of disruptive digital technologies, advanced economies’ middle-class manufacturing jobs disappeared, their median incomes stagnated, and job and income polarization grew, even as GDP growth remained strong.
In fact, global investment in clean energy, driven by enlightened, forward-looking national policies, grew to a record $243 billion in 2010, up 30% from the previous year.
Over most of the last 40 years, China focused on rapid land-based development, driven by local initiatives aimed at attracting infrastructure investment, human resources, and tax revenues.
The choice of English was driven by history and a multiethnic society’s need for a common language.
This trend is being driven partly by demographics: developed countries are aging fast, while Asia, Africa, and Latin America have burgeoning populations that are both young and increasingly wealthy, implying both substantial dynamism and greater competition for resources.
Not since the end of World War II have so many people been driven from their homes.
The second factor – clan – is manifested in rising ethnic tensions in Europe, Turkey, India, and elsewhere, driven by forces like migration and competition for jobs.
Some financial activity has already been driven into the shadows, reflected in the use of Bitcoin and other currencies that are beyond the reach of US regulators.
But infrastructure spending is usually slow – and almost always driven heavily by parochial political considerations.
At stake is the sputtering Franco-German engine that has driven European integration and kept it at the center of the post-war multilateral system.
The announcement highlights the risk of a regulatory race to the bottom, driven not just by Saudi Aramco’s impending listing, but also by financial deregulation in the United States and fears about Brexit’s consequences for the City of London.
As a result, while Merkel may appear to be in charge of things in the EU these days, in reality she is no longer driving events, but rather being driven by them.
In fact, QE has driven developing countries to expand their foreign-exchange reserves by roughly $2.8 trillion since 2008, as the added liquidity that the policy has generated has moved to developing countries through trade and capital flows.
Competition from lower-paid Chinese workers has driven down US wages.
In order to contain the shock and control inflation expectations, Brazil’s central bank was driven to increase interest rates.
Large domestic private groups affected by the scandal have faced financial drought, operational disarray, and a sudden halt in demand, while outside investors, driven by a combination of shaken confidence and opportunism, adopted a “wait-and-see” approach.
Between 1931 and 1936, almost all gold-standard countries were driven off of the gold standard by financial panics, usually spreading from one country to the next in a ricochet effect.
But our contempt was driven more by the West’s role in supporting corruption in Africa than by the fate of the specific Zimbabwean artifact we had seen.
This shift has been driven at least partly by the global expansion of nuclear weapons.
They regard economists and other experts as isolated from and indifferent to the concerns of ordinary people; driven by an agenda that does not coincide with that of citizens; often blatantly wrong, and therefore incompetent; biased in favor of, or simply captured by, big business and the financial industry; and naive – failing to see that politicians select analyses that suit their ends and disregard the rest.
Of course, African development must be driven by African citizens – from all areas of society.
Even before the recent Middle East political shocks, oil prices had risen above $80-$90 a barrel, an increase driven not only by energy-thirsty emerging-market economies, but also by non-fundamental factors: a wall of liquidity chasing assets and commodities in emerging markets, owing to near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing in advanced economies; momentum and herding behavior; and limited and inelastic oil supplies.
In fact, citizens seem to be driven less by ideology than by their frustration with burgeoning economic challenges, which have been caused largely by a situation over which their leaders have little control: the end of the commodity boom that began early this century.
And labor-market shifts – driven by technological change, the globalization of low- and medium-skill jobs, and the growing prevalence of part-time, temporary employment – have caused the wage share of national income to decline and the distribution of that income among households to become increasingly uneven.
More and more people are claiming that markets are characterized by irrationality, bubbles, fads, and frenzies, and that economic actors are driven by behavioral biases.
For example, the recent spike in oil prices would have been driven by an irrational frenzy in futures markets.
Competitive pressures from low-cost foreign production have driven down the average cost of solar installation in the US by 70% since 2010.
May, for her part, seems to be driven by domestic politics to prioritize national sovereignty over the economy.
Immigrants are seen as arriving on a journey of continual reinvention, driven to exceed their opportunities in their countries of origin.
Putin’s pre-election monologues and articles suggest an ominous answer: his presidency will be based on a genuine misunderstanding of the structure of contemporary international relations, markets, and democracy, and will be driven by his uncontrollable messianism.
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