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But how strong an expansion can one reasonably expect when the worst is finally over?
True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.
But, while necessary, this strategy threatens to upset the delicate balance between private- and public-sector expansion that has underpinned China’s expansion so far.
Not all regions will necessarily have slower economic expansion in the decade ahead.
Expansion is SolidarityNowadays it is often alleged that the European Union’s sense of solidarity was put in jeopardy, if not shattered outright, by its enlargement to take in the countries of central and eastern Europe.
Positive developments include the expansion and adaptation of new IMF lending facilities for crisis prevention and management, as well as an increase in the IMF's total resources.
Many forecasters currently believe that there is a significant probability that the economy will slump during the next 12 months – a “double dip” in the expansion process.
Rapid economic and demographic expansion has already turned adequate access to potable water into a major issue across large parts of the world.
And on this measure, China has plenty of room for expansion.
Indeed, in recent years, labor’s share of national income has been on the rise – a direct reflection of the decline in manufacturing and expansion in services.
But, following monetary easing and fiscal expansion, it is Abenomics’ third “arrow” that will prove most important – and most politically challenging.
Inequality Comes to AsiaSEOUL – From China to India, Asian countries’ rapid economic expansion has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades.
Meanwhile, new technologies raise demand for skilled workers, while reducing demand for their less-skilled counterparts – a trend that fuels the expansion of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled.
And the unrestrained expansion of financial markets, notably the proliferation of derivatives, led directly to the crisis that engulfed the Western banking system in 2007-2008.
Two recent examples, both of vital importance to the future structure of Europe, exemplify the advantages and risk in "deadline" diplomacy: Nato expansion and introduction of a common European currency, EMU.
All country's interested in Nato expansion have been informed of these findings.
Since then, Moscow has made it clear that it would regard Nato expansion eastward as an unfriendly act.
Western leaders are aware that an expansion aimed at improving European stability may indeed produce new strains.
How the world absorbs those surpluses will define the next period of global economic expansion.
India’s share of world investment is only 3.4%; and even a large expansion will not compensate for a small decline in Chinese investment.
For example, the strengthening of the African banking sector in recent years – including the expansion of cross-border banking activities – has been made possible in part by innovative fintech (financial technology) products developed in London.
The increase in FDI inflows, access to sovereign debt, and sharp expansion of migrant remittances have all contributed to a shift in the revenue base away from commodities.
And it embarked on an unprecedented expansion of its balance sheet under the guise of quantitative easing.
Hailed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis as the new engines of the world economy, the emerging economies are now acting as a drag on global growth, and many argue that their era of rapid expansion – and their quest to achieve convergence with advanced-country income levels – is over.
In response, “[p]olicymakers explicitly reject the conservative paradigm and ignore the existence of any type of constraints on macroeconomic policy,” such that, “[i]dle capacity is seen as providing the leeway for expansion.”
But while monetary and fiscal expansion was justified at the time to stop a panic, these policies have not been curtailed since.
Aggregate demand expansion hardly alleviates the pain.
It would be a mistake to presume that the vast expansion of trade between India and China, currently worth more than $60 billion annually (with China now India’s largest trading partner), must lead to improved bilateral relations.
This raises perhaps the most troublesome concern of all: with a post-crisis world getting hit by one shock after another, and with central banks having no latitude to cut interest rates, it is not hard to envision a scenario of open-ended monetary expansion that ends in tears.
In the future, new information and communication technologies are expected to stimulate the expansion of educational opportunities and to improve educational quality at the national and global level, by offering a variety of innovative learning channels.
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