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I have seen many ebbs and flows, booms and busts, and though I fully recognize that international capital markets have become more institutional in character and demonstrate greater resistance, I cannot believe that the present boom will not be followed by a bust until history proves me wrong.
For instance, a democratic and prosperous Russia would make a greater contribution to peace in the region than any amount of military spending by NATO would.
The context this time was a desire to achieve expectations of greater monetary stimulus, in order to facilitate recovery from the great recession of 2008-2009.
China’s massive pan-Asian infrastructure plan, the Belt and Road Initiative, together with its muscular behavior in the South China Sea, pose far greater threats to American hegemony than does one bilateral piece of a much larger multilateral trade deficit.
Since 80% of HIV/AIDS patients reside in the countryside, greater access to health care in these areas has become a priority.
Officials there must focus not only on developing a pragmatic, realistic healthcare infrastructure in rural areas, but also on bringing about greater openness in China’s media in order to spread life-saving public information.
But while outbreaks of infectious illnesses such as Ebola, flu, Zika, SARS, and – hypothetically – Disease X tend to capture headlines, most global health practitioners understand that noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, hypertension, and cancer pose an even greater threat to health and economic stability.
Meanwhile, forest and agricultural lands would have to be restored, so that they could capture and sequester greater amounts of carbon dioxide.
They are likely to place much greater emphasis on consumer lending, especially mortgages and credit cards.
That said, there are huge infrastructure needs across developing Asia, and it is high time for China to play a greater role in international lending institutions.
The Kenyan, Zimbabwean, and Ethiopian legislatures are currently considering laws that would permit significantly greater government control over Internet access.
And, in China, greater transparency is needed to control corruption and keep special interests in their place.
Broadly, we see three areas in which Europe’s policymakers at both the national and EU levels can do better: global challenges where Europe could show greater leadership, the creation and strengthening of human capital within the EU and worldwide, and improvement in the effectiveness of the EU’s own political machinery.
The truth is that the way forward in Europe requires achieving greater productivity.
If not, Greece will have less control over its adjustment and potentially experience far greater trauma, perhaps eventually outright default.
In India’s parliamentary system, if a coalition loses its majority, the government falls, and keeping allies together can sometimes prove a greater priority than getting things done.
With a carefully constructed system, this money could be put to even greater productive use.
Even so, amnesty allowed many people with blood on their hands to escape punishment in the interest of avoiding greater bloodshed.
However, as talent shortages loom, the need to retain employees could tip the balance back toward greater investment in professional development.
Given that affluent households spend a smaller share of their incomes and wealth, greater inequality translates into lower overall consumption, thereby hindering the recovery of economies already burdened by inadequate aggregate demand.
China, which has invested billions of dollars in developing Afghanistan’s natural resources –investments protected, ironically, by the US – would be certain to experience greater unrest in Xinjiang Province, home to millions of disaffected Muslims.
The underlying issue is whether Europe’s monetary union needs greater integration to manage crises such as Greece’s, or whether it can maintain the current approach, founded on national responsibility and sanctions for those who break the rules.
That will require greater flexibility and inclusiveness on key policy issues.
Young people need greater access to a useful and affordable post-secondary education, as well as the chance to afford their own homes.
The Republican proposal, unfortunately, is a recipe for greater disaster than the US (and the world) experienced in 2008.
The longer the policymaking impasse persists, the greater the stall-speed risk for an economy that already has an unemployment crisis, a large budget deficit, many underwater mortgages, and policy interest rates floored at zero.
This is an atmosphere in which unhealthy balance sheets come under even greater pressure, and healthy investors refuse to engage.
Instead of allowing the Internet to result in greater freedom, China’s government constructed a Great Firewall.
To the extent that tolerance of above-target inflation also reflects a desire to erode the real value of public and private debts, market interest rates could soar, leaving indebted governments and households in even greater trouble.
The World Bank and other institutions considering assistance through loans face even greater difficulties.
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