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The Next Industrial RevolutionNEW YORK – A new global deal to tackle climate change will not only be good for business, it is crucial to achieve sustainable growth for the global economy.
When these three forces align, economic change accelerates and so does economic growth and wealth creation.
For example, in the US, energy efficiency measures alone can save over a trillion dollars, while driving job creation and growth in the short-term, aiding the economic recovery and providing the economic stimulus required to accelerate investment in low-carbon energy generation and use.
With these three straightforward principles at its core, a global deal signed in Copenhagen can fire the starting pistol for the new industrial revolution, the low-carbon revolution, creating significant growth, job creation and economic development throughout the world.
Its key feature is to shift official policy from maximizing GDP growth toward raising consumption and average workers’ standard of living.
China’s high rate of GDP growth over the past decade has, of course, raised the real incomes of hundreds of millions of Chinese, particularly those living in or near urban areas.
Much of the income from GDP growth went to large state-owned enterprises, which strengthened their monopoly power.
China now plans to raise the relative growth rate of real wages and to encourage increased consumer spending.
Moreover, if it were true, it would follow that tax cuts would reduce budget deficits, because faster economic growth would generate higher revenues, even at lower tax rates.
More recently, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers argued that “secular stagnation,” manifested in sustained lower investment and growth in many advanced economies, has been a major force driving down rates.
In the eurozone and Japan, taxing banks that hold reserves (negative-interest-rate policy) will also encourage more bank lending, and thus stimulate growth.
In this and other ways, the rainforest could be harnessed to finance development and generate growth in a socially inclusive and sustainable way.
Economic growth has averaged nearly 6% over the last decade, and the poverty rate has declined rapidly since the 1990s.
And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.
The growth miracle of an ascendant Japanese economy was premised on an unsustainable suppression of the yen.
Instead, the paper’s authors argued that Japan’s “lost decades” of anemic growth and deflation could have been avoided had policymakers shifted to stimulus more quickly and with far greater force.
Meanwhile, the real economy eked out a decidedly subpar recovery, with real GDP growth holding to a 2.3% trajectory – fully two percentage points below the 4.3% norm of past cycles.
Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all: human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.
They empower citizens to cultivate their collective energy and develop their potential, and thus become drivers of their countries’ growth and advancement in the world arena.
Faster growth in consumer spending would also reverse the recent slowdown in GDP growth, providing the extra demand needed to create employment for the millions of Chinese who are leaving agriculture and the millions more who are graduating from the country’s universities.
They campaigned and won on the promise that free-market capitalism would unleash growth and boost prosperity.
Only one-quarter of this decline is due to slower economic growth; the remainder is attributable to an increasingly unequal distribution of income.
Even leaving aside other important dimensions of the issue – such as fear of globalization, growing ethical doubts about contemporary technologies, and concerns about the environmental consequences of growth – redefining progress is a challenge of daunting magnitude.
For several decades, growth has served as a substitute for sensible social cohesion policies.
The movement’s rapid growth was fueled by widespread opposition to what many regard as official efforts to regiment lifestyles, as well as by frustration over perceived economic inequities.
Clearly, oil producers failed to anticipate the growth of demand in China—so much for the wisdom and foresight of private markets.
For the past three years, falling interest rates have been the engine of growth, as households took on more debt to refinance their mortgages and used some of the savings to consume.
Clearly, some of the growth in 2004 was due to provisions that encouraged investment in that year—when it mattered for electoral politics—at the expense of 2005.
Europe is finally beginning to recognize the problems with its macro-economic institutions, particularly a stability pact that restricts the use of fiscal policy and a central bank that focuses only on inflation, not on jobs or growth.
It may be too soon to be sure, but prospects for taming the over exuberance of a year ago appear good, bringing economic growth rates to sustainable levels that would be the envy of most other countries.
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