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While Modi has used the phrase “inch toward miles” as the motto of India-China cooperation, the PLA has continued its cynical territorial aggrandizement by translating that slogan into incremental advance.
But the two-step scenario involves incremental risks to the US economy, and to its standing in the global system.
But incremental steps had been slowly moving the system in the right direction since the 1980s.
Such incremental steps gave rise to a loose system of debt restructuring.
Meanwhile, amid plodding deliberations of incremental steps that are clearly inadequate, Syrians are being displaced, wounded, tortured, and killed in droves.
In any case, the incremental nature of the talks belies the situation’s urgency.
The US and other parties to the talks agreed to deliver fuel shipments in exchange for incremental steps toward denuclearization, including the disabling of the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
Such a system cannot be overhauled through small incremental steps.
The subsequent recovery was slow and incremental.
With the right insights, and a commitment to fundamental, if incremental, change, the social and political impact of digital platforms can be made safe – or at least safer – for today’s beleaguered democracies.
Instead, as Rajan Menon and others have suggested, there is a need to pursue incremental action.
And these companies incur a cost of about 7% of their incremental deferred foreign income as a result of suboptimal use.
Such flexibility, by allowing for slight incremental changes over time, would provide investors with greater certainty, as it would sweep aside today's worries about whether or not China can keep its exchange rate fixed at today's level or sharply devalue the RMB downward.
For decades, technological advances have been essentially incremental, and the industry remains largely based on long-haul transport aircraft, with an emerging small jet component and a legacy of general aviation markets and products.
It should be a top priority for policymakers to ensure that patent offices have the financial and human resources needed to grant business-method patents judiciously, and that they do not award patents to obvious or merely incremental ideas.
Thus far, progress at international climate-change talks has been incremental at best.
But it will be used as a cudgel by those who claim that electric cars or solar panels – technologies that will make only a marginal contribution, given their huge incremental costs – are the solution to climate change.
Instead of seeking a new, disruptive framework to replace current data and analytical techniques, we should focus on making thoughtful, incremental changes to the existing system.
To counter their arguments, opinion-makers should emphasize the expected long-term returns on incremental public investment, not with ideological arguments, but with concrete examples from various sectors in the recent past that have had reasonably good rate of returns.
Amid massive unmet demand for new climate-compatible infrastructure and for workers with modern skillsets, any semi-competent government should be able to demonstrate the likelihood of significant real returns on incremental investment.
In many countries, one could realistically expect a 4% average return on at least one percentage point of GDP worth of incremental investment.
Though $3.6 trillion of incremental liquidity has been added to the Fed’s balance sheet since late 2008, nominal GDP was up by just $2.5 trillion from the third quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of this year.
Such a fruitless debate borrows a page from the Bernanke-Greenspan incremental normalization script of 2004-2006.
With the right policies in place, the incremental food demand created by these transfers, as well as by school meals programs and nutrition supplements for mothers and infants, could create opportunities for small-scale farmers to expand their output and improve their livelihoods.
One of the great transformational leaders in history, Otto von Bismarck, became largely incremental and status quo-oriented after achieving the unification of Germany under Prussian direction.
Likewise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s foreign-policy objectives and style were modest and incremental in his first presidential term, but became transformational in 1938 when he decided that Adolf Hitler represented an existential threat.
Whether they are transformational or incremental in their objectives, leaders need certain soft- and hard-power skills to be effective.
Instead, it is pursuing an incremental approach to shaping the region according to its interests.
But their resilience has always been a function of their ability to generate enough incremental aggregate demand to support their growth, without having to make up for a large loss of demand in developed countries.
From 2007 to 2013, as average returns on investment fell, China’s incremental capital-to-output ratio – the units of investment needed to achieve each additional unit of GDP – doubled to six.
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