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Changing negative perceptions does not mean that we must act against our interests.
Yet it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for him to prevent the upcoming election from becoming an emotional and negative referendum on his persona.
GDP growth has already slowed and may turn negative.
Thus, worries about a Putin who has “lost touch with reality” imply not only a lower (or even negative) GDP growth rate, but also – and more immediately – a weaker currency, driving up prices of imported consumer goods.
At the beginning of my premiership, I launched what observers have called “Abenomics,” because only in my country had the nominal wage level remained in negative territory for a staggering length of time.
Just days after Obama declared last October that Malaysia was a model of “diversity and tolerance,” Malaysian authorities denied non-Muslims the right to use the word “Allah” in the practice of their own faiths – a decision condemned throughout the Muslim world for its negative portrayal of Islam.
According to the latest Asia Barometer Survey, only 30% of Malaysians – the lowest share in Southeast Asia – view the US favorably, with negative sentiment most highly concentrated among young people and Muslims.
Meanwhile, given the fragility – and interconnectedness – of the global economy, tightening monetary policy in the US could have negative impacts abroad (with consequent blowback at home), especially given the instability in China and economic malaise in Europe.
In Europe, this has become particularly pronounced, because banks are unable to pass negative interest rates on to depositors.
It is unusual that a new technology has no negative side effects.
The Friedman-Simons view that businesses’ sole social responsibility is to increase profits assumes that competent, non-corrupt governments both provide the public goods necessary for a prosperous economy and contain the negative externalities, like pollution and climate change, that result from private economic activities.
But, in the actual societies in which businesses function, governments are often unable or unwilling to provide required public goods or curb negative externalities.
Given the importance of human capital for India’s future, choosing people of questionable merit to lead institutions of higher education will inevitably have negative economic consequences.
In theory, higher marginal tax rates have well known negative effects – they reduce private incentives to work, save, and invest.
A sharp contraction in jobs and labor income has many negative consequences on both the economy and financial markets.
In the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa recorded a "net transfer" (new borrowing minus debt service on past loans) of negative $11 billion.
The combination of these negative trends is affecting these countries’ fiscal as well as external balances.
By contrast, China’s working-age population has been shrinking, by more than three million annually, since 2012 – a trend that will, with a 4-6-year lag, cause labor-supply growth to decline, and even turn negative.
At times, a high investment rate can offset a high capital coefficient’s negative impact on growth.
In fact, one of the likely consequences of Adityanath’s promotion – and the negative signal it sends to India’s largest religious minority – is that economic development will suffer.
Likewise, Uttar Pradesh’s dismal social indicators – it has India’s worst infant and under-five mortality rates – will have negative externalities for the country as a whole.
With immigrants from afar, however, this negative effect disappears.
By 2013-2016, however, growth slowed in many emerging economies – particularly in Latin America, with Brazil experiencing negative growth in 2015 and 2016 – while growth in the United States picked up.
The share of conservatives with an overall negative view of government was 80%; among liberals, it was closer to 50%.
Even when we look at core inflation, real interest rates in the US are still deep in negative territory.
But the response from EU institutions, namely the European Central Bank and the European Commission, has been negative: candidate countries were told that they first must spend at least two years in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II), where Euro aspirants are expected to prove their policy mettle.
Still, there are both positive and negative aspects of the Asian approach to the challenges of global governance.
Health: Asia’s experience in dealing with SARS, bird flu, H1N1, and other diseases should be studied carefully – for both positive and negative lessons – with a view to developing a new global consensus on handling pandemics.
Most recently, some monetary authorities – including the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and several other European central banks – have taken interest rates negative.
In fact, negative policy rates may hurt bank profitability and thus banks’ willingness to extend credit.
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