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However, such fiscal expansion would probably disqualify a country from entering the Euro any time soon.
In our deeply interconnected globalized economy, one country’s policies – such as trade barriers, interest rates, or monetary expansion – can have far-reaching spillover effects.
This is why prevention or at least a postponement of NATO expansion is so important.
Expansion of NATO, if not seconded by the emergence of a robust pan-European security system would make Russia an outcast from the Continent's security architecture.
NATO expansion, indeed, creates two challenges to European security.
This struggle risks becoming more destabilizing than debates over expansion of NATO to the three or four Central European states.
Before expansion is contemplated, Russian rapprochement with key European institutions must be sealed.
Republicans, it seems, support fiscal expansion only when they control the White House.
The result is that Europe’s achievements in recent years – its expansion to create a single economic market of 500 million people and its creation of the euro as a currency that challenges the dollar – are not accompanied by a significantly greater global standing.
As the scarcity of human capital declines in importance, the rapid expansion of education may not be the answer to the challenges of globalization that we hoped it would be.
In fact, they doubled down on the cocktail of zero policy rates and balance-sheet expansion.
Yet this massive balance-sheet expansion has had little to show for it.
The Mystery of the Missing InflationNEW YORK – Since the summer of 2016, the global economy has been in a period of moderate expansion, with the growth rate accelerating gradually.
The Bundesbank’s monetary rigor will be just one voice among many in the monetary union; other voices will press for monetary expansion and a weakening currency in midst of continuing frustrations with unemployment, and new frustrations with financial sector crisis.
But this unsustainable expansion was financed by foreign borrowing, and the inflation rate has since skyrocketed to over 15%, with the current-account deficit exceeding 5% of GDP.
The unprecedented economic expansion that has lifted millions out of poverty has been accompanied by widening income disparities, as well as serious environmental damage.
Just as the West has provided exports and expertise to bolster Asia’s economic expansion, Asia offers opportunities for advanced economies to transform their growth models to cope with the challenges of globalization.
(True, other important initiatives have been the peace process and the expansion of the road network, though these are not, strictly speaking, economic policies).
They invested 7% of GDP in expansion of the Canal, a project completed in 2016.
But policymakers did not shy away from large strategic public investments when needed, as in the case of the Canal expansion or the airport.
NATO’s expansion towards Russia’s own borders, and the membership of countries whose elites have historical complexes in regard to Russia, increased anti-Russian sentiment inside the alliance.
Russian troops crushed Georgia’s army on the ground, but they also delivered a strong blow against the logic of further NATO expansion, which, if not stopped, would have inevitably incited a major war in the heart of Europe.
He responded to PAS’s challenge by building up Islamic universities, banking systems, and bureaucracy, but he opposed the expansion of Sharia law, drawing a line between modernist and conservative strands of Islam.
After surviving a near-miss in the 2013 poll, Najib enticed PAS to revive its Sharia expansion agenda in Kelantan, where it had regained control in 1990.
On the contrary, PAS remains a viable opposition force and will continue to push for the expansion of Sharia.
The USTR’s 2016 report on the topic acknowledged the complexity of the picture presented by China’s WTO membership at the time, but took an overall positive tone, highlighting the expansion of mutually beneficial trade and investment.
But this argument ignores the fact that China has been experiencing double-digit annual GDP growth, owing largely to capital expansion, while America’s annual GDP growth has averaged only 2-3%.
According to this view, if a developing economy can realize extraordinary growth, it must be because it offers greater opportunities for capital expansion than a developed economy.
The fact that some of Asia’s most dynamic economies – including China, Japan, and the four tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) – have experienced investment-propelled growth and improvements in TFP simultaneously can be explained by the fact that TFP gains increase investment returns, accelerating capital expansion further.
Though further analysis is needed to elucidate the long-term relationship between capital expansion and TFP, it is clear that the long-accepted theory that they cannot co-exist is seriously flawed.
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