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Moreover, while NAFTA locked Mexico into many needed and desirable economic reforms, it never delivered on the promise of growth: Since 1994, annual economic growth has averaged just 2.5% – low by emerging-market standards – while the
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for productivity, employment, and wages are similarly disappointing.
Unfortunately, most of the public, egged on by well-meaning rock stars, religious leaders, and other popular figures, seem brainwashed into believing that debt relief is a giant step on the road to ending world poverty.
National
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are only slightly more encouraging.
In the absence of reliable statistics, let us focus on two iconic
figures
of China’s pro-democracy movement: Hu Jia and Chen Guancheng.
These
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are, in fact, quite close to the numbers underlying the new Basel requirements as implemented by national regulators.
This can include exposure to authority
figures
who normalize violence by framing it as acceptable or good; depictions of the “other” as less than human; and widespread impunity.
Second, China’s published data should be considered in the context of its trading partners’ own figures, as well as those of major international companies that do business in China.
China’s Flawed Balance-of-Payments PositionBEIJING – The balance-of-payments
figures
that China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) released in April should have triggered serious concern, if not alarm.
And, of course, these
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pale in comparison to the humanitarian disasters in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.
A Balance-Sheet Approach to Fiscal PolicyWASHINGTON, DC – Everyone is talking about debt, citing huge nominal
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that strongly affect public-policy debates worldwide.
For starters, when it comes to public debt, there is a big difference between the gross and net
figures.
Proponents of austerity currently use nominal debt
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to scare voters, even in countries with record-low interest rates and large private-sector profits that are not being channeled toward investment.
Aside from Le Pen, the two most popular
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on the right and the left are, respectively, the oldest and youngest potential candidates: Alain Juppé, who served as Prime Minister under Chirac, and Emmanuel Macron, Hollande’s Minister of Economy, Industry, and Digital Affairs.
It is particularly low – around 0.58 – in Ireland, Italy, and Spain.Income inequality ranges from 0.25 in Iceland to 0.64 in South Africa, though of course the
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differ depending on whether one is considering before- or after-tax income.
Redistribution levels are the direct result of policy choices, which typically also reflect cultural and historical factors.The point is not to get lost in endless comparisons or arcane mathematics, but to underscore that it is possible – and, indeed, necessary – to have a meaningful discussion of inequality, based on concrete figures, with the goal of establishing clear targets.
Income inequality ranges from 0.25 in Iceland to 0.64 in South Africa, though of course the
figures
differ depending on whether one is considering before- or after-tax income.
The point is not to get lost in endless comparisons or arcane mathematics, but to underscore that it is possible – and, indeed, necessary – to have a meaningful discussion of inequality, based on concrete figures, with the goal of establishing clear targets.
China’s behavior has fueled a nationalist backlash in Japan, helping to turn hawkish, marginal politicians like Shintaro Ishihara into important mainstream
figures.
But why do the skeptics accept the truth of dismal government
figures
for construction and steel output – down 15% and 4%, respectively, in the year to August – and then dismiss official data showing 10.8% retail-sales growth?
The renminbi, however, has recently stabilized, and capital flight has dwindled, as evidenced by the better-than-expected reserve
figures
released by the People’s Bank of China on October 7.
The
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that governments publish represent society as it is now, through the lens of what those assembling the data consider to be relevant and important.
Resignations have increased: ambassadors, ministers, significant media figures, and army generals.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s call in 2009 for the “Islamization” of universities led to courses being changed and the replacement of some academic staff by more conservative
figures.
Many senior Conservative
figures
were saying privately at the time that they thought the SDP was going to win the next election in a landslide.
The Mystery of the Karmapa LamaNEW DELHI – The seizure by police of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the Karmapa Lama – one of the most-important
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in Tibetan Buddhism – has revived old suspicions about his continuing links with China and forced him to deny that he is an “agent of Beijing.”
The Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama, and the Karmapa Lama are the three highest
figures
in Tibetan Buddhism, representing parallel institutions that have intermittently been at odds with each other throughout their history.
But these aid
figures
are absurdly low from a historical perspective.
According to
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like France’s Marine Le Pen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, and Belgium’s Filip Dewinter, immigrants will bring their culture with them, thereby undermining European institutions.
But these
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do not speak to Piketty’s thesis that inheritance has accounted for an increasing share of household wealth and exacerbates wealth inequality.
In fact, the
figures
for the US from 1989 to 2010 – taken from the Federal Reserve Board’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances – contradict both claims.
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