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Given this, oil producers would be well advised to treat recent oil-price gains as a temporary windfall, not a permanent state of affairs or even – unless there is a notable geopolitical shock – a trend that is likely to intensify in the year ahead.
And they should act quickly to reinforce their collective discipline to minimize the risk of a free-for-all that negates the hard-earned gains of recent years.
America needs to use hard power against terrorists, but it cannot hope to win the struggle against terrorism unless it gains the hearts and minds of moderates.
This gives the lie to the meme that manufacturing was stable for a long time, and then suddenly collapsed when China started making gains.
In fact, all of those “bad trade deals” have helped other sectors of the American economy make substantial gains; and as those sectors have grown, the share of jobs in manufacturing has fallen by only 0.1%.
After achieving dramatic gains against hunger and famine, we run the risk of backsliding, owing to poorly considered choices.
Moreover, the more that wealth accumulation is viewed as "unfair" (i.e., the result of corruption and illegality), the more pressure for stiff taxation of "ill-gotten gains" will mount.
If Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali or Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak were hoping for political popularity as a reward for economic gains, they must have been sorely disappointed.
If the new Ukrainian government becomes complacent, the country’s gains could be lost.
Indeed, thanks to the lobbying of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, capital gains tax fell by 50% in five years at the end of the 1970s.
But, beyond the direct gains from trade, such a pact holds the promise of opening up and accelerating the transformation of Ukraine’s economy and polity.
Each time that machines yielded gains in efficiency (including when tractors took over from horses), old jobs disappeared, but new jobs were created.
Furthermore, economists are number crunchers, and recent data show a slowdown – rather than an acceleration – in productivity gains.
The long-term success of the economy, and its capacity to build wealth and jobs, depends on productivity gains, which in turn depend on technical and organizational innovation.
If, controverting Gordon’s thesis, today’s technologies do boost productivity significantly, the return on investment would rise (unless labor receives all of the gains in the form of higher wages, an outcome that nobody expects).
And environmental degradation is threatening the gains of recent decades.
There have been important gains in market access in the past 15 years: 80% of developing countries’ exports to developed countries are now tariff-free, while average tariffs are down overall.
Vast amounts of short-term capital, speculating on interest rate convergence or equity market gains, are flowing into the most advanced candidate countries, driving up their currencies and increasing their vulnerability to a sudden capital-flow reversal.
The alternative is to capitalize on the unique opportunity that this year's devaluation of the peso offers by making the competitiveness gains last long enough to shift resources into the export sector.
Eventually productivity gains in a larger export sector will drive up real wages and consumption.
Moreover, some of the medium-term fundamentals for most emerging markets, including the fragile ones, remain strong: urbanization, industrialization, catch-up growth from low per capita income, a demographic dividend, the emergence of a more stable middle class, the rise of a consumer society, and the opportunities for faster output gains once structural reforms are implemented.
To be sure, over the last four decades, the quality of China’s labor force has improved substantially, which is reflected in impressive gains in educational attainment.
Clinton’s proposed measures would cause the US to lose out on some gains from trade, with consequences for the world economy.
The overriding reasons for attacks on the state, the other side of liberalism’s return, are financial: in the past 30 years governments borrowed big-time to parcel out the gains of economic growth.
It resists but really can’t hold out because its international competitors understand that productivity gains of 30% or more can be harvested from privatization.
These gains remain politically controversial, but so are higher debts and taxes.
In other words, a smaller number of companies have made greater efficiency gains, but there has been relatively no diffusion of these benefits into the broader economy.
Simply put, gains in capital productivity are not being translated into higher median incomes, a breach of the social contract on which liberal economies rest.
Advanced technologies, particularly advanced computing and robotics, have enabled productivity gains to occur without a corresponding increase in wages.
Subsidy reform also offers significant scope for revenue gains.
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