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Proposals to increase housing density are frequently met by opposition from current residents, whose fears range from adverse impact on services to downward pressure on
existing
home values (or upward pressure and gentrification).
The
existing
power relations in the Middle East have indeed been permanently shaken and, indeed, revolutionized.
Continued rapid technological change threatens to widen further the
existing
gap between available skills and those demanded by the global labor market.
Their approach has been to extend new loans so that Greece can service its
existing
debts, without restoring Greece’s banking system or promoting its export competitiveness.
Today, with Iran starved of technology and spare parts for
existing
equipment, OPEC’s second-largest oil producer in 2006 has become a net importer of refined petroleum products.
There are major things we can do on the basis of
existing
knowledge – on deforestation, energy efficiency and renewables – to make a big difference over the next decade.
Given that a wealth tax would be used primarily to pay down high levels of
existing
public debt, it would be applied in the context of the individual member states.
Voice may also decrease if new possibilities emerge: a new potential partner means that there is no longer any pressure to discuss and improve relations within the
existing
arrangement.
But whereas Europe supports a kind of “offensive multilateralism” that seeks to beef up
existing
institutions’ rules and enforcement mechanisms, China resists changes to
existing
standards, especially if they strengthen enforcement of rules that might constrain its ability to maximize its own advantages.
Beyond disrupting
existing
economic sectors and activities, these technologies ended up producing new demand for the altogether new goods and services that they enabled.
Established powers’ resistance to their rising counterparts’ demands for a larger role in setting the global agenda fuel tensions and disrupt the
existing
world order.
Yet, these liabilities are just as real as the
existing
public debt and, in quite a few cases, their present value is as high or higher than the public debt numbers.
In Japan, for example,
existing
public debt is near 100%, but there is an extra 150% of GDP in net pension liabilities.
Providing workers more options to enhance their knowledge and skills would enable them to capitalize on developing technologies, such as mobile Internet and social media, not only by filling positions at
existing
companies, but also by launching their own enterprises.
Such sharing-oriented businesses increase the productivity of
existing
capital, while creating new jobs for workers.
Initially,
existing
firms are likely to resist such apprenticeships, because investing time and resources in temporary workers – if not potential competitors – seems to conflict with their interests.
Such a combination would force the ECB to be even more rigid in an economy where the employed and their representatives (trade unions) are preoccupied exclusively with protecting
existing
jobs and excluding outsiders, i.e. the unemployed.
African firms have not yet proved capable of meeting
existing
domestic demand.
But important questions remain – most important, whether the AIIB is a potential rival or a welcome complement to
existing
multilateral financial institutions like the World Bank.
Indeed, many in the West have portrayed their establishment as part of an effort to displace
existing
multilateral lenders.
As Deputy Finance Minister Shi Yaobin pointed out recently, by recognizing the need to reform their governance,
existing
multilateral lenders have shown that there are, in fact, no “best practices” – only “better practices.”
Stagnating or falling real incomes do not just act as a brake on consumption demand and GDP growth; they also fuel social and political discontent, as citizens lose confidence in
existing
economic structures.
For years, the world has believed that the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar order would be peaceful, orderly, and steady, with new players like China, Brazil, and Turkey adapting to the
existing
multilateral framework in a natural, harmonious way.
Finally, one must consider the price adjustments that are likely to arise from the inertia of
existing
trade flows.
Instead, we should look at Trump’s own analysis of
existing
agreements in the context of his views on issues such as national security and working-class jobs and incomes.
This is particularly important in the case of AIDS, because the spread of drug resistant viruses and the unwanted side-effects of
existing
medicines, means that new anti-retroviral drugs will be needed to keep treatments effective.
As before, they would get no real power in return, and any possibility of genuine change from within the
existing
power structure would remain minimal.
Expanding the share of consumer goods might significantly improve the welfare of Chinese citizens, who, because of
existing
tariffs and non-tariff barriers, now often travel abroad to make purchases.
Thus, disruptions to
existing
work patterns should be welcomed and “mitigated,” by adapting education and social-security systems to the needs of an automation-driven job market.
Countries far from the world technology frontier are better off imitating
existing
technologies and adapting them to local conditions, but over time such countries must improve their capacity for innovation.
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