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Over the medium term, according to Wolf, countries need to put in place regulatory measures that lower debt levels and discourage overleveraging.
Instead, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory trade measures.
As Premier Wen Jiabao recently emphasized, China must now undertake comprehensive measures to control mounting inflation, growing asset bubbles, and an overheating economy.
Trump is relying on China – one of America’s largest trade partners – to apply pressure on the North Korean regime, while US businesses have lobbied vigorously against any measures that might inhibit trade.
These measures will almost certainly provoke retaliation from China.
Though these measures are certainly positive steps, no country acting alone can ensure adequate protection of shark populations.
But frameworks are in place for the development of international conservation measures.
And yet all of the Republican candidates are proud of opposing gun-control measures; indeed, they have no problem allowing people to enter a school or a bar bearing concealed weapons.
Most French citizens are now so frightened of Islamist attacks that such measures are widely supported.
These measures have been taken to address the long-standing problems of Turkey’s non-Muslim religious minorities.
African policymakers need to implement ambitious measures not only to increase enrollment in schools and training programs, but also to improve the quality and availability of such programs, particularly in technical fields, throughout workers’ lives.
African countries should take a lesson: in building knowledge economies, they will need to support industries’ maturation, and then rescind protectionist measures, in order to mitigate complacency and spur innovation.
The implication is not that central banks should immediately halt their hyper-activism and unconventional measures.
If Trump goes down the protectionist road, however, US trade partners will retaliate, often with measures targeted directly at his base, as when the European Union recently threatened tariffs against Kentucky bourbon.
Given that threat, Trump’s economic populism will most likely manifest itself through abstinence – avoiding pro-market measures that clearly hurt the white working class.
These ongoing measures are a response to the weaponization of social-media platforms by illiberal state intelligence agencies and extremist groups seeking to divide Western societies with hate speech and disinformation.
Given the likelihood of additional trade protectionism and measures to remove immigrant workers, the increase in inflation and long-term interest rates could be quite dramatic.
A possible explanation for the government’s inaction over the past two and half years is that the measures agreed upon within the coalition that won the 2008 elections were not tailored to a country entering a major recession.
There was no leadership over economic policy defining new priorities and measures to meet the changed macroeconomic conditions.
He should start by speaking out firmly against violence, and taking proactive measures to protect immigrants and minorities, who are understandably fearful of attacks by his supporters.
Central banks have responded with a range of unconventional measures, including quantitative easing (QE) and negative interest rates.
Hollande’s plans for a growth initiative fall on fertile ground, especially in the European Parliament, which has repeatedly called for such measures.
And the austerity measures were sufficiently relaxed after two years for Osborne to be called a “closet Keynesian.”
The issue is not just the ECB’s legal authority under the Maastricht Treaty, but, more importantly, the appropriateness of alternative measures.
A renewed emphasis on stimulus must be augmented by global coordination on the timing and content of stimulus measures.
Countries now seem to think that monetary-policy measures are their only option.
Several countries are pursuing policies that emphasize prevention and treatment rather than repression – and refocusing their repressive measures on fighting the real enemy: organized crime.
Additional measures to improve vocational training or extend part-time work, for example, could prove to be invaluable.
So far, efforts to curb public debt have centered on painful austerity measures, including substantial cuts in the supply of public goods, especially health care and education.
Such measures, together with further liberalization of protected domestic sectors, will strengthen Spain’s economic-growth model considerably.
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