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A Breakthrough Against HungerNEW YORK – Today’s world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures.
And, as the rest of the world grapples with austerity measures, such countries should be considering restoration strategies and ways to permanently wean themselves off foreign aid.
But official measures of GDP may grossly overstate growth in the economy as they don't capture the fact that business sentiment among small firms is abysmal and their output is still falling sharply.
These measures, too, are supposedly doomed because they all involve increasing governments’ liabilities, and financial markets are at a tipping point with respect to sovereign debt.
And with debt levels already high and large deficits ahead, such supply-side measures would be reckless.
Thus, government measures are the sole way to boost employment and growth when autonomous demand falls short and jobs are lost.
A third option is nuclear containment, which relies on several measures.
These fiscal-policy failures have put too much of the burden on central banks, even though growth would more likely accelerate with productivity-enhancing supply-side measures.
Furthermore, the Turkish military can increase the pressure on Iraqi Kurds with far less drastic measures.
These two measures were both timely and vital, creating a much-needed period of calm.
The problem is that subjective measures are much more difficult to study – not least because they are associated with high placebo response rates.
To ensure that nuclear facilities are operated to the highest standards of safety, measures are in place, for example, to control the release of radioactive material to the environment, to prevent the occurrence of events that might lead to a loss of control over a nuclear reactor core, and to mitigate the consequences of such events if they were to occur.
New and innovative industrial-development strategies, as well as carefully tailored measures to attract foreign direct investment, must be introduced.
It suggests support for agriculture and agribusiness development and linking them with other sectors, as well as measures to boost resilience to price shocks.
For starters, Western leaders should avoid playing into the terrorists’ hands, as Hollande is doing by calling the Paris attacks “an act of war” and implementing unprecedented measures at home.
In response to rapid and bold stimulus measures, Japan’s economy is expected to grow at a rate of around 3% this year – one of the highest rates among advanced economies – and the Nikkei index rose 80% in the six-month period ending in May of this year.
For example, if China took measures in a future crisis scenario to disrupt the buildup of American combat power in certain places and at certain times, the US would need to create alternative points of entry for its reinforcements, delaying its initial and follow-on responses.
Effective confidence-building measures are crucial to diminishing the threat of confrontation in the region.
That is the idea behind the annual Bloomberg Misery Index, which measures inflation and unemployment, on the assumption that both generate economic costs for societies.
But these measures are misleading, because they do not account for many of the things that matter to societies, such as equality, social mobility, or sustainability.
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s ability to respond to threats that do not amount to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international peacekeeping activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
The more federal eurozone would be embedded in a larger union that cooperates on defense, foreign policy, climate-change measures, and migration policy.
In many countries, current budget deficits are the result not of reckless government overspending, but of temporary measures to deal with the crisis.
What is needed is a grand bargain, with countries that lack policy credibility undertaking structural reforms without delay, in exchange for more room within the EU for growth-generating measures, even at the cost of higher short-term deficits.
By this logic, international trade should be regulated not by rules and institutions, but through unilateral protectionist measures and arm-twisting.
Sarkozy has said that he wants to focus the French EU presidency on promoting measures to deal with climate change, reviewing European migration policy, and re-energizing the ESDP, in line with France’s decision to return to NATO.
While we now have the ability to rent a car at a distant airport equipped with a Global Posting System to guide us unerringly to a hotel we have never seen, we still cannot put anywhere near the same of measure of reliance on any of our common economic measures.
More investors should be demanding that the incentives change to reflect true measures of long-term performance.
But today a surprising number of mainstream economists and centrist politicians are endorsing the idea of monetary financing of stimulus measures in different forms.
The United Kingdom’s referendum decision to leave the European Union only strengthens the case for more stimulus and unconventional measures in Europe.
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