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These
imbalances
suggest that Russia would resist a tight military alliance with China, even as the two countries pursue mutually beneficial tactical diplomatic coordination.
The challenge is to apply these insights in a world characterized by global economic interdependence, major imbalances, and a worsening growth and employment problem.
But the advanced countries are, to varying degrees, fiscally constrained by relatively high and rising public debt, largely owing to fiscal
imbalances
that were hidden from view until defective growth models broke down in the crisis of 2008.
Indeed, the single most difficult issue inhibiting serious movement toward disarmament – certainly in the case of Pakistan versus India, and Russia and China versus the US – are conventional arms imbalances, and ways of addressing them must rise to the top of the policy agenda.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who often complained about trade
imbalances
in Europe, should applaud these market reactions, which were unintentionally strengthened by her president.
In turn, this allows unsustainable
imbalances
to build up, leading to an inevitable crash.
So it is possible to reduce deficits and keep the debt/GDP ratio in check – provided that the economy does not start out with large imbalances, and that the financial system is working properly.
Despite extraordinary growth since the start of its transition to a market economy in 1979, China is facing serious challenges simultaneously: rising inequality, large and growing levels of environmental degradation, stubborn external imbalances, and an aging society.
Already, US President Donald Trump’s administration has withdrawn his country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and confronted US allies on their defense spending and persistent trade
imbalances.
Ron Paul is right to point to
imbalances
of power and massive distortions within the financial sector.
Moreover, the discussions that started several months ago about
imbalances
within the eurozone have floundered on the issue of the symmetry of adjustment.
Nowadays, more and more problems are being redefined as “disorders” or “illnesses,” supposedly caused by genetic predispositions and biochemical
imbalances.
Pressure for revaluation stems, therefore, not from the real needs of China economy, but from large
imbalances
in the United States, particularly its long-standing trade deficit, which exceeds 5% of GDP.
But Spanish policymakers and business leaders appeared to grasp the nature of the pre-crisis economic
imbalances
– and the importance of the tradable sector as a recovery engine.
More data are needed to understand workforce imbalances, the peer review system, and how the economics of the scientific enterprise influence scientists’ behavior.
Those policies led to
imbalances
that eroded the economy’s competitiveness and foreign reserves, pushing the country toward a balance-of-payments crisis.
His administration needed to address the fiscal and external imbalances, without undoing the progress in social inclusion that had been made over the previous decade.
The currency depreciation, it was assumed, would address external imbalances, by encouraging, with the help of lower export taxes, increased production of tradable goods.
At the end of Macri’s first year in office, Argentina faced the same macroeconomic
imbalances
that it did when he took office, but with significantly higher external indebtedness.
Unstable macroeconomic dynamics are reproducing the same
imbalances
as they did before.
Meanwhile, budget
imbalances
remain, and have been aggravated by the current oil embargo.
This division is complicating matters enormously, because close international cooperation is needed to correct the global
imbalances
that remain at the root of the crisis.
The euro was built on the assumption that markets correct their own excesses, and that
imbalances
arise only in the public sector.
As it happened, some of the largest
imbalances
that fueled the current crisis arose in the private sector – and the euro’s introduction was indirectly responsible.
IMF surveillance, intended to detect economic vulnerabilities and imbalances, was inadequate.
But countries with large external imbalances, low reserves, or high debts will increasingly feel financially constrained, if they don’t already.
External
imbalances
will pose the largest challenge for the region.
Nevertheless, the fundamental
imbalances
between creditor and debtor countries remain – and, in some cases, are growing.
After all, England is probably the most politically centralized economy in the OECD – a reality that probably contributes to its deep regional
imbalances.
During the ensuing decade,
imbalances
slowly grew between a resurgent Germany and countries where low interest rates had triggered credit booms.
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