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While immigration and globalization are often blamed, the real culprits are chronic slow growth and technological innovation.
The likelihood that Trump will ease regulations and cut taxes has pumped oxygen into US markets, and many business leaders are confident that economic growth is on the horizon.
But while growth should be welcomed, we must ensure that we do not simply retrace the missteps of the last decade, when the benefits of growth were not widely shared.
Postponing the exit after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the same failed policies (recessionary austerity and structural reforms) will not restore growth and competitiveness.
But, even with significantly more public-debt relief, Greece could not return to growth without rapidly restoring competitiveness.
And, without a return to growth, its debt burden will remain unsustainable.
A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, through structural reforms that increased productivity growth in excess of wages, is just as unlikely.
A return to a national currency and a sharp depreciation would quickly restore competitiveness and growth.
More importantly, the exit path would restore growth right away, via nominal and real depreciation, avoiding a decade-long depression.
The experience of Iceland and many emerging markets over the past 20 years shows that nominal depreciation and orderly restructuring and reduction of foreign debts can restore debt sustainability, competitiveness, and growth.
The G-20 backs PPPs to boost global growth and create jobs.
One important reason for these countries’ vulnerability is the consistent lack of investment in their populations, which has prevented ordinary citizens from reaping the benefits of economic growth.
The development approach that dominates global thinking today emphasizes economic growth and state-building over social progress.
These policies are motivated by domestic considerations, as the Chinese government seeks to raise living standards more rapidly than the moderating growth rate of GDP.
Allowing the currency to appreciate will help to offset those pressures and restrain price growth.
Slowing growth and policy missteps, together with signs that the US Federal Reserve will start tightening monetary policy by scaling back its “quantitative easing” (QE, or open-ended purchases of long-term assets), have triggered deep sell-offs in emerging economies’ currency, bond, and equity markets.
Faster growth and higher interest rates in emerging markets relative to those in developed economies encourage capital flows to the former, while an increase in global risk aversion – for example, during the eurozone crisis in 2011 – discourages them.
China’s growth has fallen as it attempts to rein in excessive credit and bad debt.
China’s slowdown and prolonged recession in parts of Europe have weakened demand in global commodity markets, depressing growth in commodity-exporting countries like Brazil, Russia, and South Africa.
Meanwhile, India’s growth rate has plunged as a result of faltering economic reforms and unsustainable budgetary choices: it now has record-high fiscal and current-account deficits.
And political unrest has marred growth prospects in Turkey, Brazil, and South Africa.
At the recent annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde expressed concern about slowing growth in emerging markets and urged them to pursue additional economic reforms.
Once the market turbulence sparked by changes in US monetary policy subsides, they will once again become the darlings of global investors seeking returns from growth and diversification.
And devaluation of the renminbi could be viewed as an aggressive move to reverse the export slide and restore domestic growth – a move that could prompt competitors in Asia and elsewhere to push down their exchange rates as well, triggering an all-out currency war.
Today’s Productivity ParadoxNEW YORK – Recent trends in productivity growth make it hard to be optimistic about the future.
In 2014, the global growth of total factor productivity, or TFP, which measures the combined productivity of capital and labor, was essentially zero for the third consecutive year.
If the underlying rate of TFP growth has in fact fallen from its historical norm of 1.5% per year to near zero in countries like the United States, then the living standards of today’s young adults will rise much more slowly than those of their parents.
Economists such as Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argue that this slump in productivity growth reflects the stagnation of technology.
Emerging from a series of macroeconomic crises in the mid-1990s, Mexico undertook bold reforms that should have put it on track for rapid economic growth.
But where it counts – in overall productivity and economic growth – the story is one of substantial disappointment.
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