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The CBR stabilized the market by shock-hiking its interest rate, and has since reduced it gradually, as any sound central bank would.
It would be best if a credible consolidation program could be phased in gradually; but consolidation needs to proceed nonetheless – and primarily by controlling spending.
Structural reforms – however slowly – will continue and gradually increase potential and actual growth.
Yet, over the centuries, the responses to these incentives gradually strengthened and entrepreneurship took hold.
To be sure, back in the 1970’s, confidence in the credit of the British government collapsed, forcing it to borrow from the IMF so that spending could be cut and taxes raised gradually rather than abruptly.
That recognition is gradually sinking in, at least in the government.
$ heavy energy use in the rich economies is indeed gradually warming the earth;$ it is poor countries -- mainly in the tropics -- rather than the rich countries -- mainly in the temperate economies -- who are likely to suffer the most severe damage.
Gradually, this would become the norm, and tradition would adjust accordingly.
Second, it was assumed that the major participants in global trade – including the emerging economies that joined this process and, later, its anchoring institutions, such as the World Trade Organization – would eventually embrace the basic principles of reciprocity, continuing gradually to reduce both tariff and non-tariff barriers.
Instead of letting the renminbi appreciate and gradually reducing their reliance on export markets, the Chinese authorities preferred to accumulate foreign reserves (US Treasury debt).
The roles and obligations of the Self-Defense Forces must gradually shift and diversify, and their zone of action broadened.
Confidence would gradually return, yields on outstanding bonds would decline, banks would no longer be penalized for owning Italian government bonds, and Italy would gradually regain access to the market at more reasonable interest rates.
They are part of a worldwide trend whereby natural and culturally specific obstacles to a competitive and financially sophisticated marketplace for scientific research are gradually removed.
But a new business model is gradually emerging, based not only on advertising but also on selling products and services directly to users.
If the exit turns out to be a ten-year process, the losses would be borne gradually over that period, costing the UK about 0.2-0.3% of GDP per year, on average.
Interest rates may return to normal levels, and asset prices may gradually correct.
Britain, for example, is gradually waking up to the fact that European issues have nothing to do with the genuine political grievances that motivated a large part of the “Leave” vote.
Successive Italian governments since the financial crisis have gradually laid the foundations for pension, labor market, and banking reforms.
But from one treaty to another (there have been eight altogether), from one stage of integration to the next, national governments, sensitive to the “democratic deficit,” gradually enlarged the powers of the European Parliament.
The program was gradually transformed over the years as students, whether out of choice or necessity, increasingly came to rely on school lunch rather than bringing their own.
During this long process of industrialization, wages will increase gradually, but it is very unlikely that they will grow at the same rate as labor productivity.
As the US and other coalition partners gradually wind down their combat role, Afghan security forces – to number 300,000 after crash training of new recruits – are to take their place.
After all, China’s policy toward the country has been gradually moving in a more constructive direction for the past two decades, reflecting China’s growing international prominence, as well as its leaders’ cautious embrace of the global role that their country’s new economic might has provided.
Burma’s former military leaders, it seems, looked ahead dispassionately and saw a stark choice: either relinquish gradually their absolute power, allowing for a democratic transition, or permit China to tighten its grip on their country.
Instead, this Fed has gradually raised interest rates for the past six years, and the federal funds rate is now 400 basis points higher than it currently is.
One can only hope that these measures will be sufficient to bring China’s export data gradually back to reality.
Fiscal adjustment and structural reform without financing is more fragile and liable to fail without a war chest of liquidity to prevent a run on public debt while the appropriate policies are implemented and gradually gain credibility.
Gone is the stress on cautious, gradually phased-in exit strategies; the search for a rebalancing was almost unnoticeable in the meeting’s communiqué.
A requirement that all cars sold in either Europe or China had to meet a certified “green steel” standard, with the share of steel sourced from zero-carbon production increasing gradually toward 100% over the next few decades, would provide a strong stimulus toward steel decarbonization.
Under normal circumstances, an economy’s potential growth rate adjusts naturally and gradually, as structural change progresses.
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