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The construction industry’s glacial pace of change is unlike that of other sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing, which have transformed their productivity performance over time.
Europeans, who were called on to improve productivity and raise domestic demand, reformed their economies at a glacial pace, while China maintained its export-led growth strategy.
The eurozone would be safe, at least temporarily, and leaders could resume their glacial trudge toward fiscal and political union.
Viewed from Latin America, the US experience is a reminder that strong institutions emerge at a glacial pace, thanks to the cumulative efforts of generations of reformers.
There is a strong ideological flavor to Xi’s apparent frustration with the ministry’s glacial approach to policy innovation.
That may seem like marginal progress, but it is actually quite rapid relative to the normally glacial pace of structural change – a process that began in China only in 2011 with the enactment of the 12th Five-Year Plan.
The Fed’s preference for glacial normalization both in the early 2000s and now keeps monetary policy on emergency settings long after the emergency has passed.
Elsewhere in the region, water stress from reduced rainfall, salinity, glacial retreat, and desertification will hit water stocks, threaten livelihoods, and drive up food and water prices.
Even when the police have investigated cases and referred them to the courts, prosecution has proceeded at a glacial pace or has not occurred at all.
His first report, presented to the Council at the end of March, and his second report last week, painted a picture of glacial progress.
In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani-held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.
That is either not occurring or happening at a glacial pace in southern European economies, where structural rigidities in labor and services markets need to be addressed.
The fact that the eurozone lacked the labor-market flexibility needed to make it an optimal currency area meant that adjustment via regional reallocation of economic activity would be glacial, while its members’ loss of control over monetary policy ruled out adjustment via nominal depreciation.
Instead, teaching techniques at colleges and universities, which pride themselves on spewing out creative ideas that disrupt the rest of society, have continued to evolve at a glacial pace.
Perhaps change in tertiary education is so glacial because the learning is deeply interpersonal, making human teachers essential.
Gaining consensus in China is a glacial process that will not be accomplished in a single speech.
If anything, central bankers are signaling that the coming normalization may even be more glacial than that of the mid-2000s.
Real economies have been artificially propped up by these distorted asset prices, and glacial normalization will only prolong this dependency.
Two popular brands in China are Qomolangma Glacier, sourced from a supposedly protected reserve linked to Mount Everest, on the border with Nepal, and 9000 Years, named after the assumed age of its glacial source.
A third, Tibet 5100, is so named because it is bottled at a 5,100-meter-high glacial spring in the Nyenchen Tanglha range that feeds the Yarlung Tsangpo (or Brahmaputra River) – the lifeblood of northeastern India and Bangladesh.
Make no mistake: Glacier-water mining has major environmental costs in terms of biodiversity loss, impairment of some ecosystem services due to insufficient runoff water, and potential depletion or degradation of glacial springs.
Moreover, the process of sourcing, processing, bottling, and transporting glacial water from the Himalayas to Chinese cities thousands of miles away has a very large carbon footprint.
Unfortunately, the IMF’s rebalancing efforts are proceeding at a glacial pace.
And, while China has turned toward a tougher policy on North Korea at a frustratingly glacial pace, there is no question that it is moving.
Political and economic reform, when it advances, does so at a glacial pace.
The Himalayas are now subject to accelerated glacial thaw, climatic instability, and biodiversity loss.
Its 2007 report represents the best possible risk assessment available, notwithstanding an error – or, more precisely, a typographical error – in its statement of Himalayan glacial melt rates.
The old institutions have recognized the need for reform, but they have been moving at glacial speed.
Never mind the Fed’s promises that any such moves will be glacial – that it is unlikely to trigger any meaningful increases in policy rates until 2014 or 2015.
As the more than 1.1 percentage-point increase in 10-year Treasury yields over the past year indicates, markets have an uncanny knack for discounting glacial events in a short period of time.
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