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From the trough of recessions, recovery to pre-recession output levels took less than two quarters on average, and employment recovered within eight months.
With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
After correlating per capita income and self-reported happiness levels across a number of countries, he reached a startling conclusion: probably not.
In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples’ happiness levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.
Those who are willing to engage often demand steep risk premiums that dramatically increase the cost of capital, often to usurious levels.
And they saw an economy growing considerably faster than North Atlantic economies had when they possessed the same absolute and relative economy-wide productivity levels.
Seven years ago, prior to the global financial crisis, the overwhelming consensus among economists was that, in retrospect, Japan’s expected convergence in productivity levels to America’s Pacific coast was not in the cards.
In fact, by the end of last year, capital inflows had pushed the dollar up to levels not seen in more than a decade, owing to expectations of large-scale deregulation, tax cuts, and fiscal stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and increased outlays for America’s supposedly “depleted” military.
In most advanced economies and many emerging economies, investment rates fell sharply in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, and have still not returned to pre-crisis levels.
Today’s high levels of inequality also impede the structural reforms needed to boost productivity, while undermining efforts to address residual pockets of excessive indebtedness.
The way home ownership is taxed and subsidized could be reformed more significantly, especially at the top price levels.
With those goals ostensibly accomplished, Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, reduced troop levels in the country, even declaring a year and a half ago that the war was “coming to a responsible conclusion.”
That will require complex, multiple, varied, and integrated responses from a very wide variety of sources at individual, institutional, societal, and global levels.
May’s two leading SPADs, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, took this danger to worrying levels.
Asia today is in the midst of a powerful recovery; crisis countries have already, or are poised to, recover their pre-crisis levels of GDP.
Korea, the last Asian economy to collapse is now doing best with double-digit growth and interest rates not much above American levels.
Money started to come back, pushing exchange rates nearly up to pre-crisis levels.
Here, the country already has an advantage: relatively high levels of equity and low mortgage-to-value ratios typically characterize real-estate purchases by China’s household sector.
Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, all very poor, have higher levels of protection.
China narrowed the trade policy gap with other developing countries, bringing average tariffs down to Southeast Asian and Latin American levels (about 10%) and establishing comparable openness to foreign direct investment (FDI).
And the incidence of child labor rose beyond the levels seen in some of the poorest Sub-Saharan African economies today.
Since the 1980’s, we have never regained the full employment levels of the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Moreover, a higher inflation target – and the restoration of credibility that it would imply – would enable central banks to return to a lower inflation target without creating a recession once debt levels had been reduced and aggregate demand had recovered.
More than a decade after the beginning of the transition, many postcommunist countries have not even returned to pre-transition income levels.
Ultimately, direct dialogue at the highest levels should be a key objective.
Although it is far from an exact precedent, the historic 1972 Shanghai Communiqué signed by China and the US, which allowed both governments to “agree to disagree” on many issues while committing themselves to dialogue at the highest levels, offers a promising model.
Direct diplomatic and strategic engagement between the US and Iran at the highest levels is a proposition yet to be tested.
Although the top rate has climbed back to near 40%, no one proposes a return to pre-Reagan levels.
Even more impressive, the state ensured constant experimentation and learning at all levels of government, which will remain essential as China addresses issues like inequality.
Massive investments are also needed in education to eradicate deep pockets of illiteracy, raise overall skill levels, and better match skills to the demands of the market.
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