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And with less intensive energy use and increased efficiency, energy productivity in the global economy could increase by 40-70% over the next two decades.
While global growth in energy demand is slowing, China’s share of that demand is increasing.
In addition, China is investing $32 billion – more than any other country – in renewables overseas, with top-tier Chinese companies increasingly taking the lead in global renewable-energy value chains.
These trends suggest that China will be a major source of both energy demand and cutting-edge technology, implying that it will have a unique opportunity to provide global leadership.
But China will also face challenges as it moves from fossil fuels to renewables within a changing global resource sector.
Financial deregulation made London a global financial center.
China’s economic weight reached its peak in 1600, when it accounted for more than one-third of the global economy.
Its share of global GDP declined slowly until 1820, when it began to drop precipitously, owing to the Industrial Revolution’s enormous impact on economic growth in the West.
By the early 1960s, China’s share of global GDP had fallen below 5%.
Since 1978, China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and its share of global GDP economy, now at one-fifth, continues to rise.
To understand what it means to host a global sporting event, consider the fact that Putin’s government spent $51-70 billion to stage the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and is projected to spend at least $14 billion hosting the current World Cup, which runs through July 15.
To justify its imperious behavior, FIFA points out that, “[the] World Cup is a major sporting event that attracts global attention to the Host Country/Host Countries and provides the opportunity for significant financial investment in sporting and public infrastructure.”
When, during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, global investment professionals turned their attention from Thailand and Korea to Hong Kong, they quickly spotted structural weaknesses in the way the currency was managed.
Hong Kong ’s government, led by the HKMA, launched an unprecedented intervention, buying up local shares to “defeat” the speculators, but failed to stop the stampede by global investors, including conservative pension and mutual funds.
A Truly Global Response to Climate ChangeBONN – Climate action is not just about controlling global temperatures.
Partnership around the world must be maintained in the global effort to achieve a smooth transition to low carbon and climate-smart development.
Under these conditions, it is impossible for the majority of humanity to participate effectively in their national economies, much less the global one.
Today, I find myself focusing on broader political trends that also help to explain global economic issues.
Needless to say, the greater the governance and policy challenges at home, the more difficult regional and global cooperation becomes.
Welcome to the Era of IncompetenceTwo diametrically opposed scenarios exist for what will happen to global real interest rates over the next generation.
Sri Lanka’s Chinese ElectionNEW DELHI – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election this month promises to shape not only the country’s political future, but also geopolitics in the wider Indian Ocean region, a global center of trade and energy flows that accounts for half of the world’s container traffic and 70% of its petroleum shipments.
Wall street 1929 all over againCAMBRIDGE: Any writer of financial fiction would have an easy time setting the stage-ballooning valuations of stocks founded on exaggerated beliefs about the impact of new technologies on productivity, and gross over-confidence in the American model, are placed side-by-side with an all-pervasive global financial fragility, evidenced in the Asian crises, a moribund Japan, and chaotic Russia.
Unfortunately, good government is in limited supply, in part because there is no global consensus about what constitutes it – to the detriment of people from Cairo to California and beyond.
Only Saudi Arabia can manage the global output of oil in such a way that will make room for Iraqi oil and keep prices high.
For most of the past generation, and looking into the future, the message of the market is that the benefits of international capital mobility do not include a relaxation of the capital constraint, and thus an acceleration of growth in the global periphery.
The Cooperation CrisisPARIS – The rise of emerging economies worldwide has generated much optimism, in terms not only of economic development, but also of global cooperation.
In 2008, the US abandoned its commitment to the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global trade negotiations.
Multilateralism requires minimal consensus on global rules and norms among all major powers.
In the emerging multipolar world, characterized by sovereignty concerns and strategic competition, progress toward resolving global issues will be more difficult than ever – with potentially devastating consequences.
On the economic front, Trump’s trade policies will become even less popular in the months ahead as the American economy cools from the “sugar high” of the corporate tax cut, as growing uncertainty about global trade policy hamstrings business investment, and as both the budget deficit and interest rates rise.
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