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It is past time for these modest changes, because the Asia/Pacific region's many fault lines affect the interests of the world's great and emerging powers in fundamental ways.
So long as spending goes to investments yielding a modest return of 6%, the long-term debt will be reduced, even as the short-term deficit increases, owing to the higher tax revenues generated by the larger output in the short run and the more rapid growth in the long run.
But in a shock-prone world, it is a fragile system, because it precludes anything but modest countercyclical policy.
Counter-cyclicality does not mean running modest deficits in the good times and huge deficits in major downturns.
This is like expecting your modest annual salary to satisfy all the appetites you developed while burning through a large inheritance.
EU leaders are hoping that a modest cyclical upturn will buy them time.
Yet, if Brazil is to enjoy growth above the modest levels of the past few years, the country badly needs to reform its labor laws, open itself more to foreign trade, and improve the quality of its primary education system.
What is now needed is a more modest debate about how to reconcile the deficiencies of the market with the demands of solidarity.
At a more modest level, hackers were able to destroy a blast furnace at a German steel mill last year.
And at a time when the economy has been growing steadily for 33 quarters and is approaching full employment, the legislation will have only a modest effect on growth.
This is obviously affordable, and is modest compared to military spending, but is far above the pittance that the G-8 actually brings to the table to solve these urgent challenges.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made a valiant effort to get the rest of Europe to honor the modest aid pledges made at the G-8 Summit in 2005, but it has been a tough fight, and one that hasn’t been won.
But the world’s scientists and engineers, as well as global technology leaders such as General Electric, are also sending a clear message: we can solve the problem at modest cost if we put our best thinking and action into real solutions.
Those incentives will come at modest cost and huge benefit, and they can be designed to protect the poor and shift the climate-change burden to those who can afford it.
The Kyoto Protocol was the first attempt at such a system, but it applied only to rich countries and set only modest objectives.
Indeed, the modest economic recovery that should benefit many countries in 2013 seems to be eluding Italy.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has lately been undertaking modest reforms to Japan’s defense posture, aimed at ensuring that in the event of some regional crisis, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces could come to the aid of our allies – in particular, the US.
But given the need to reassure the Japanese public that Abe’s reforms are truly what he says they are – that is, modest changes that will allow Japan to deepen its alliance ties – Trump’s intervention is the height of irresponsibility.
True, the defense against missiles which Bill Clinton (reluctantly) and George W. Bush (enthusiastically) are proposing – with massive support from America’s Congress – is different from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars dream of twenty years ago: NMD is supposed to catch only a modest number of warheads, not provide complete protection against enemy missiles.
Legal experts in Washington suggest that modest preparations for building missile and radar sites do not violate the ABM-Treaty and so do not yet require a US notice to quit.
Of Banks and BailoutsPALO ALTO – Early signs of a manufacturing rebound, already strong in Asia, lend hope for some modest recovery from today’s deep global recession.
The fact that America can veto even these modest IMF proposals illustrates a fundamental weakness of current international economic arrangements.
Indeed, no matter what terms the UK negotiates with the EU, it will probably have to change its growth model, probably through a modest revival of manufacturing, among other things.
But the consensus in Beijing was that the G-20 should adopt a modest proposal this year: a limited expansion of the International Monetary Fund’s current system of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
One advantage of this modest proposal is that it would not prejudice the outcomes of the working group on broader reforms, like new distribution formulas for SDRs.
In some cases, even if motives are mixed, the prospects of success are reasonable, and the misery of a population can be relieved at modest expense.
We freely admit to not knowing everything about how a helicopter flies or a printing press prints, but we are not nearly modest enough about our ignorance.
We can be appropriately modest about our knowledge of other things, but not so about our ability to explain the workings of the world.
The modest reforms we propose are the right place to start.
But private investment was modest before the uprisings of 2011, when such risks were already high.
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