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By failing to act in a timely fashion, central banks have allowed a dangerous
erosion
of confidence and wealth, which is creating “pushing on a string” conditions.
One possibility is a gradual, market-determined
erosion
of the dollar as a reserve currency in favor of the euro.
In a recent report, Human Rights Watch documented the accumulation of executive power and the
erosion
of human-rights protections in Venezuela.
In Turkey, the world’s top jailer of journalists two years in a row, the
erosion
of free speech has been particularly swift.
At the same time, new media models are being developed to fill the vacuum left by the
erosion
of local journalism.
Austerity programs have been largely counterproductive, generating vicious cycles of slow or no growth, business closures, skyrocketing unemployment, and tax-base
erosion.
Every year of below-capacity growth means lower growth capacity in the future, owing to lost investment,
erosion
of worker skills and experience, and diminished risk-taking.
Like their president, most Russians see no contradiction between improving their personal lives and the country’s international status since the 1990’s and the
erosion
of democratic institutions.
But the scale of total capital
erosion
in the event of default is the same, regardless of whether the asset has been held for a single day on the trading book or an entire decade on the banking book.
Deforestation, growing population pressure, urbanization, soil erosion, over-fishing, and the impact of foreign domination over marketing, inputs, processing, and even farming also play a role.
If that trend continues, it will prevent further
erosion
of household wealth and strengthen the banks’ capital positions.
The goal, for Polanyi, was to achieve the prosperity that a market economy generates, without suffering the risks of poverty, creative destruction, and community
erosion
implied by the operation of market forces.
The reform efforts by the OECD, acting at the request of the G-20, represent welcome attempts to address so-called “base
erosion
and profit shifting” (BEPS), but they do not go far enough.
This time, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann is warning that the
erosion
of central-bank independence in some countries – reflected in the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to buy an unlimited number of government bonds to meet its new inflation target of 2% – will trigger competitive exchange-rate devaluations.
This year’s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding – a warning of more soil
erosion
and destruction of arable land to come; hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.
And a final trend is the gradual
erosion
of property rights, which has left Russian businessmen unwilling to invest in the country.
On the other hand, higher competitiveness and
erosion
of the real value of debt would quickly outweigh these costs by restoring confidence in the French economy’s prospects.
This is not just a matter of lost capabilities and rising poverty; persistently high unemployment also leads to social unrest,
erosion
of trust in political leaders and institutions, and the mounting risk of a lost generation.
Skill
erosion
becomes a problem for those with prior work experience, while unsuccessful first-time entrants into the labor force are not just unemployed, but risk becoming unemployable.
Increasingly obsessed at the prospect of its own citizens and practices coming under international scrutiny, America has over the past few years contributed to the general
erosion
of the UN human rights monitoring system.
In the US, long-term
erosion
of trust in the federal government culminated in Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election: even though President Barack Obama enjoyed high public approval, only 19% of Americans trusted the federal government to do what is right.
But, again, the risk stems less from unpredictable shocks than from the slow
erosion
of institutions that investors trust to make an uncertain world more predictable.
If the IMF imposes fiscal contraction or a misguided strategy for restructuring the financial sector (as it did in Indonesia), then the economy will be weakened and this will lead to a further
erosion
of confidence.
The combination of climate change,
erosion
of biodiversity, and depletion of natural resources is propelling the planet toward a tipping point, beyond which objectives like sustainable development and poverty reduction will be more difficult than ever to achieve.
But increasing animosity among eurozone member states, and the
erosion
of support for European integration in both creditor and debtor countries, means greater federalism is politically unfeasible – and potentially even dangerous.
Its workforce stands to suffer, slowly but surely, from
erosion
of its relative advantages in terms of wages and job security.
So the shareholders chose to cash in on a temporary bonus, taking a risk on the progressive
erosion
of the firm, and perhaps the end of its policy of focusing on high quality while treating its workers with respect.
Deforestation for timber and energy precipitate
erosion
and reduce soil fertility.
Nonetheless, our findings suggest a simple first step toward preventing bank capital erosion: stop banks with capital shortfalls from paying dividends (including internal dividends such as employee bonuses).
Emergency support from a few friendly governments has so far limited the
erosion
of Egypt’s foreign-currency reserves at a time of mediocre tourism earnings and growing imports of food and other basic necessities.
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