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And yet, even there, two decades of confidence-building measures have been unsuccessful.
Yes, such measures have helped to maintain open lines of communication, preventing small disputes from escalating into violent conflict.
For starters, the confidence-building measures put in place lack local support.
Technical expertise is needed to design and implement measures that are part of a strategic vision to end the conflict.
But such measures will be effective only if the regional and global geopolitical environment supports the search for a resolution.
Confidence-building measures can help to stabilize a conflict, but the stability they generate is often fragile and temporary.
In an environment like that in Ukraine, there is a risk that such measures will sustain, not end, the conflict.
I would suggest several measures, both to reduce the risks of catastrophic feedback loops in the short term and to maximize the benefits of reform in the long term.
China can take some measures to fight back, such as raising tariffs on imports of selected US products; but it should prevent trade disputes from escalating into a trade war.
Although taxing them may slow their diffusion, policymakers would be well advised to move beyond stopgap measures and accelerate the implementation of inclusive growth agendas.
But Africa and its partners will now have to unite to win the adoption of measures that ensure the sustainable exploitation of Africa’s vast environmental potential in the interest of us all.
As the Johns Hopkins University economist Olivier Jeanne pointed out at a recent IMF conference organized to spur such learning, the capital-flow measures that have become fashionable of late do not work very well.
Other European countries are considering similar measures to compel Internet companies to battle misinformation and extremism.
Two decades of natural decay and remediation measures mean that most territories originally deemed “contaminated” no longer merit that label.
Both types of policies – macroeconomic management and measures that boost inclusiveness – deserve equal attention in national economic strategies.
The concept of “structural reform” usually refers to measures aimed at boosting economic growth by sharpening market signals and restoring the health of public finances.
At the same time, the junta’s agenda entails measures to control the direction of Thai politics – in particular, by marginalizing opponents, especially politicians tied to the influential Shinawatra family.
Indeed, the sequence of the new “bailout” envisaged in the July 12 agreement predictably begins with the adoption – before the end of the month – of harsh tax measures and medium-term fiscal targets equivalent to another bout of stringent austerity.
Finally, in November, at the earliest, and after the first review of the new program is completed, “the Eurogroup stands ready to consider, if necessary, possible additional measures… aiming at ensuring that gross financing needs remain at a sustainable level.”
To be sure, unilateral US measures are indefensible under global trading rules.
But, according to the independent Global Trade Alert observatory, since 2008, China has introduced only 25 measures (referred to as “state interventions”) per year, on average, that might restrict trade with the US.
Meanwhile, China enacted about the same number of new measures that liberalize trade with the US.
By contrast, the US has enacted between 80 and 100 restrictive measures against China every year, and far fewer liberalizing measures.
Working in the other direction is the fact that some of the dollar-supportive measures that observers expected Trump to adopt, such as tariffs on steel imports, are now coming, like it or not.
Some governments have reacted to recent events with political repression, information blackouts, or a combination of authoritarian measures.
These economies need measures that help to keep the poor out of poverty traps, and that give them realistic opportunities to improve their economic well-being.
Although all of the Fragile Five – identified based on their twin fiscal and current-account deficits, which make them particularly vulnerable to capital-flow volatility – have adopted some macroprudential measures since the global financial crisis, the mix of such policies, and their outcomes, has varied substantially.
The main measures to control credit growth were a gradual increase in reserve requirements, beginning in 2010; some restrictions on consumer loans; and the introduction of credit-growth caps in the second half of 2011.
Officials argued that such tools are more effective than capital-flow measures, which “are, in general, hard to implement and rather easy to circumvent.”
But domestic prudential measures could have only a limited effect on the rate of credit growth, because the growth was driven primarily by booming capital inflows.
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