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Succumbing to the temptation of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus, such as that pursued in the wake of the global economic crisis, would not only fail to boost growth in a sustainable way; it would actually undermine growth and stability in the medium to long term.
His fingerprints are everywhere to be seen, not only in the summit's events, but it now appears clear that he was fully behind the policy of engagement initiated by President Clinton and the Japanese government after North Korea test-fired a medium range ballistic missile in August 1998.
Faced with the trade-off between economic growth in the short run and over the medium to long term, these central banks are opting for the latter.
The two treaties can converge in a framework that minimizes nuclear threats in the near term; reduces the number of nuclear weapons in the medium term; and aspires to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons in the long term.
At the same time, it offers an alternative store of value, and its use as a medium of exchange is steadily growing.
The decisive moment came when de Gaulle, in military uniform, went on television to demonstrate his mastery of the new medium.
Interestingly, one-third of these clusters can be found in states that have delivered low to medium economic performance, or are located close to smaller, lesser-known towns in better-performing states.
And we know how to do that: accommodative monetary policy; fiscal adjustment in all advanced economies that includes concrete and realistic plans to reduce debt over the medium term, but does not undercut short-term growth; completing the banking-sector cleanup; and reforms to boost productivity and growth potential.
Determine whether, overall, you would rather have in the medium term a federal government that spends, say, 16%, 20%, or 24% of GDP – and on what.
Why Wealth Taxes Are Not EnoughCAMBRIDGE – Should advanced countries implement wealth taxes as a means of stabilizing and reducing public debt over the medium term?
The economic benefits include job creation in the short term, “re-shoring” of some manufacturing activities in the medium term, and, lower macroeconomic vulnerability to global oil shocks in the long term.
At the 2009 G20 summit in Pittsburgh, member governments agreed to “rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.”
The bottom line is that deleveraging will ensure that growth will be modest at best in the short and medium term.
If fiscal rebalancing is accomplished in part by cutting investment, medium- and longer-term growth will suffer, resulting in fewer employment opportunities for younger labor-market entrants.
Questions, justified or not, about America's ability to retain its dominant position in Asia's security architecture in the medium to long term – together with the rise of isolationist sentiment within the US – have spurred its regional allies and partners, including stalwart friends like Australia, to hedge their strategic bets.
Price stability was defined as an annual increase in the price level of below two percent over the medium term.
The monetary analysis pillar comprises all information coming from various monetary and credit aggregates and serves to figure out the risks to price stability over the medium- to long-run .
In the medium term, however, further globalization seems unavoidable, meaning that it is the nation-state, and national politics, that must be constrained.
But, whatever reasons for optimism forecasters may have, there are also strong grounds for caution, especially in the medium and long term.
Additionally, there have been attempts to create new posts, develop labor-intensive industries and small and medium sized firms, promote the private sector, and encourage service jobs, plus offering occupational training: the government allocated an additional 4.7 billion yuan expressly for job creation in 2004.
On the upside, the US could have a “Sputnik moment”: a sense of national unity, common purpose, and shared sacrifice leads to structural reforms that focus on re-aligning balance sheets over the medium term, enhancing job creation, and improving competitiveness.
The problem is that such long-term investments bring results only in the medium and long term.
But Al Qaeda’s poetry deserves closer attention, because it is a medium of communication between members of the movement.
Thus, only three options remain in the short and medium term.
Hungary, Poland, Romania, and most other ex-communist nations have delayed privatizing medium and large enterprises until their government managers "restructured" employment, accounting practices, and the product mix.
It took only two years to privatize some fourteen thousand medium and large enterprises, so that by June 1994 more than 85 percent of Russia’s industrial labor force was working in the private sector.
American states and municipalities do face serious medium- and long-term fiscal challenges from underfunded pension and health-care systems, but citizens living in different states have a common national budget, whereas citizens of different eurozone countries face radically different central-government fiscal positions.
In the short to medium run, fiscal consolidation – whether in the form of cutting government spending or increasing revenues – results in lower output and employment, which means lower tax collection, higher deficits, and escalating debt relative to GDP.
But such reforms are occurring at suboptimal rates in both advanced and emerging economies, because all of the costs and dislocations are frontloaded, while the benefits occur over the medium and long term.
For example, psychotherapists' supposedly "unscientific" use of language and emotional attunement may actually provide the best medium for some types of neural growth and integration.
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