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Little wonder, then, that long-simmering frustration with the way globalization has been handled and resentment at the unfair distribution of its gains have fueled the political backlash sweeping the world of late.
It seems that Hu Jintao is more skillful than the polished Obama at maximizing his gains at little cost.
In Ireland’s case, its single year of astonishing GDP growth was due to multinational corporations “relocating” certain economic gains – namely, the returns on intellectual property – in their overall accounting.
The official response to this is that no country should be forced to increase wages, and that everybody gains if structural reforms increase productivity.
Even assuming that agreement can be found within the eurozone on how to allocate the desired gains and losses in competitiveness across countries, member countries are not centrally planned economies.
Even assuming that governments could identify and implement structural reforms that yielded quick productivity gains, it is not clear that higher productivity leads to increased competitiveness.
As a result, they have huge potential for productivity gains, which would strengthen global economic growth, and massive demand for sustainable infrastructure to reduce resource depletion and address global warming.
Fortunately, however, China has substantial room for gains in labor productivity, which is only 10-30% of the level in advanced economies.
Globalization promises too much in terms of welfare gains, particularly to developing countries, to be abandoned.
To be sure, China’s leaders have shown a commitment to ceding some control over the economy, signaling to businesses that they must adjust to a “new normal” of slower output gains as the country pursues structural reforms aimed at establishing a more sustainable growth model.
But they have also failed to make significant gains, and US plans to cut aid will make progress even more difficult.
Productivity gains are vital to long-term growth, because they typically translate into higher incomes, in turn boosting demand.
Advances in risk reduction that safeguard development gains and business investments must match this progress in disaster preparedness, and we must make wise choices that create greater opportunities in the future.
It undermines the EU’s hard-won gains and poses heavy costs to the world economy.
And economists have long known that market failures – including poorly functioning labor markets, credit market imperfections, knowledge or environmental externalities, and monopolies – can interfere with reaping those gains.
They have overstated the magnitude of aggregate gains from trade deals, though such gains have been relatively small since at least the 1990s.
Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.
Consider energy efficiency, which can help bring one-quarter of all gains in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Moreover, France will enjoy large gains from exports to the fast-growing emerging world, since it produces more competitive high value-added goods than, for example, southern European countries, whose exports are closer to those of the leading emerging countries.
Breaking the impasse requires restoring political legitimacy by electing a president who, having promised reform, gains a mandate to deliver it.
Given that debt-fueled consumption has run its course, productivity gains will become an increasingly critical driver of economic growth.
But, at a time when rising inequality is undermining social cohesion, it is far from certain that the conditions required to support such gains – that is, improved education and stronger incentives to innovate – can be met.
Violent extremism and groups espousing it are threatening to reverse Africa’s development gains not only in the near term, but also for decades to come.
These effects, they argue, will more than offset any gains from tax revenue and savings from law enforcement.
Even aside from the insecurity of new property rights, the gains of privatization are often uncertain at best.
Everyone gains by denying handouts to "needy" enterprises and helping needy people by improving the social safety net.
Anti-Assad rebels are now fighting each other, as jihadists make gains.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has called the TTIP a “once-in-a-generation prize,” citing potential gains of £80 billion ($125.5 billion) each for the EU and the US and £85 billion for the rest of the world.
Beyond compensation, the next generation of finance professionals will be paid its truest rewards in the satisfaction that comes with the gains made in democratizing finance – extending its benefits into corners of society where they are most needed.
Similarly, electrification, automation, software, and, most recently, robotics have all brought major gains in manufacturing productivity.
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