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In the longer term, Brazil faces a range of fiscal-reform challenges.
Here, too, China’s incursions, after increasing in frequency, are now being staged intermittently for longer periods.
Fortunately, this uncomfortable uncertainty will not last much longer – in Europe or elsewhere.
Although there are pockets of high unemployment in Europe today, the ratio of workers to elderly people will decline considerably in the longer term.
And over the longer run, the effects on the global balance of power and the liberal international order – in which Britain has a strong national interest – would be negative.
So debt reduction will take longer than expected in the aftermath of the global crisis, which will deprive the coming generations of the fiscal space they might need to invest in climate action or in the containment of security threats.
Even so, a major decline in America’s thirst for oil is not out of the question in the longer term.
Developing-country citizens have been expressing similar feelings for much longer.
The issue is not inequality between countries, which is actually down in recent decades, thanks in large part to higher growth rates and longer lifespans in many emerging countries (especially China and India).
As for the rise of China, contrary to current pessimism, the US will retain important power advantages that will last longer than even an eight-year presidency, should Trump be reelected.
A corollary to Stein’s law is that the longer it goes on, the more likely it will end badly.
Obama’s proposed budget recognizes that all objectives and expectations cannot be met, and that growth is partly a distributional issue now and an intergenerational issue (and potentially one of inclusiveness and social stability) in the longer term.
The direction the country will take in the longer term can best be assessed by whom Abdullah chooses to name as the successor to Prince Sultan, Naif’s chief ally who has already been named Abdullah’s heir.
But, in the longer term, the West needs a comprehensive foreign policy strategy.
Nationalists like Trump prefer strengthening the nation-state, in ways that could weaken both democracy and globalization, at least in the longer term.
At this stage, Iran still needs at least a year or longer to assemble one or two crude Hiroshima-type bombs.
The only real winner is Russia, which will secure more European money for a longer period of time.
By committing to buy more Russian gas than necessary, and for a longer time, the EU would be helping to finance Russia’s military build-up, which represents a direct threat to peace in Europe.
But these gains are likely to be short-lived, unless policymakers seize the opportunity that they provide to address the deep-seated structural challenges that, if left unresolved, will undermine growth in the longer term.
Those who are most physically active – especially midfielders, who do the most running – and play professionally for a longer time (say, at least five years) face the highest risk.
The longer the standoff lasts, the more likely it is to sully Xi’s carefully cultivated image as a powerful leader, and that of China as Asia’s hegemon, which would undermine popular support for the regime at home and severely weaken China’s influence over its neighbors.
The credit crunch will last much longer if we keep zombie banks alive despite their massive and continuing losses.
Still, this global recession will continue for a longer period than the consensus suggest.
But economic recovery everywhere will be weaker and will take longer than expected.
The longer a bubble lasts, the more damage it causes.
The longer such policies are postponed, the longer we may inhabit the inverted world of negative nominal interest rates.
In the longer term, the spread of democracy in Latin America promises not only fairer societies, but also economically more dynamic societies, through increased public investments in health, education, and job skills.
In the longer run, however, it’s right to bet on the economic benefits of democratization.
But not for much longer.
The longer the standoff between Hong Kong’s Chief Executive and the demonstrators continues, the more likely it is that individual citizens – and Hong Kong itself – will be hurt.
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