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Europe and other developed economies are aging as well,
owing
to low fertility rates and increasing longevity.
More recently, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which accounts for the distribution of wealth and social and environmental costs, showed that, while China’s per capita GDP has routinely grown at an annual rate exceeding 10% in the last three decades, per capita GPI leveled off in 1998, largely
owing
to mounting environmental damage and an increasingly uneven distribution of wealth.
Having failed to pass its first budget –
owing
to the abrupt decision by the far-right Swedish Democrats (SD) to support the Alliance alternative – the government could not simply continue as if nothing had happened.
And now the number of immigrants is increasing again, reflecting chronic turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere, as well as Europe’s increasingly turbulent and dangerous neighborhood, largely
owing
to Russian revisionism and military expansion.
For Israel, fear is essential both as a source of motivation,
owing
to its position among Arab countries, and a source of protection, through its status as a clandestine nuclear power.
But let’s accept, for the sake of argument, that the United States economy is operating well within its production possibility frontier,
owing
to various tax and other inefficiencies, and that eliminating or significantly reducing such distortions could significantly boost growth.
A combination of solid growth and sustained low real interest rates was the norm in the US for much of the 1940s-1970s, when (as I have documented elsewhere) financial repression prevailed,
owing
to heavily regulated capital markets and an accommodative central bank.
Moreover, as Chinese officials and researchers have acknowledged, though China surpassed Germany in 2009 as the world’s largest exporter by volume, it has yet to develop into a truly “strong” trading country,
owing
to lackluster trade in services and low value-added production.
Europeans are completely unprepared to defend themselves,
owing
to inertia, complacency, and lassitude.
China’s War on Western ValuesCLAREMONT – The news from China these days is mostly depressing,
owing
to the government’s escalating crackdown on its critics.
A significant opportunity exists for private actors to invest in providing affordable water-related services to poor and underserved segments of developing-country populations,
owing
to enormous untapped demand.
And yet, its economy is essentially stagnant,
owing
in part to its excessive dependence on hydrocarbons.
Attempts to enlarge the SNC have been unsuccessful,
owing
to reservations expressed by some important groups, such as the Democratic Forum, about joining an organization that relies on foreign sponsors.
But such plans have not been realized,
owing
to the absence of a cooperative culture.
Indeed, the world should expect a near recession in Russia and Brazil in 2009,
owing
to low commodity prices, and a sharp slowdown in China and India that will be the equivalent of a hard landing (growth well below potential) for these countries.
It is also prone to tax evasion,
owing
to different definitions of corporate income in the member states and the vast opportunities for cheating offered by ALP (since reference market prices often do not exist), not to mention profit-shifting to low-tax jurisdictions.
Israel is most at fault for this failure,
owing
to its continued military occupation and illegal settlements.
Nowhere in the world do neighbors live together more peacefully, and people move more freely and with greater security, than in Europe,
owing
in part to a new European identity that is not bound to national citizenship.
Nine of the ten countries with the most people living in low-lying areas (who are therefore threatened by flooding, storm surges, salinity, and erosion) are in Asia,
owing
to mass migration to megacities in recent decades.
Moreover, the rich countries can expect a massive expansion in the proportion of elderly people in their populations,
owing
to increased longevity, continued low fertility, and the progression of baby-boom cohorts through the population pyramid.
Liberalizing international migration could be another response, though it would be unlikely to offer appreciable relief,
owing
to social and political opposition to increased immigration in most developed countries.
The market consensus is that Islamic finance has a bright future,
owing
to favorable demographics and rising incomes in Muslim communities.
There is good reason to fear much more serious long-term consequences of the rise in the budget deficit,
owing
to two key issues of timing – one cyclical and the other demographic.
Over the last 20 or 30 years we have begun to comprehend what is at stake,
owing
to initiatives like the World Water Forum, which held its fourth annual meeting in March.
Owners of capital control a rapidly-growing share of GDP, probably
owing
to higher economic “rents,” which reflect decreased competition and increased monopoly power in many sectors.
But they are unable to absorb them,
owing
to several factors associated with economic backwardness.
Since 2008, shadow banking has exploded,
owing
to price and regulatory factors.
The 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees recognized a right of asylum for those unable to return to their country of origin
owing
to a “well founded” fear of persecution.
Large firms face an increasingly fluid economic, technological, and political environment –
owing
to more global and competitive markets, to the greater potential of technological change to alter firms’ business environment, and to governments’ growing influence over what makes business sense.
Every year, an estimated two million people worldwide die prematurely,
owing
to the effects of breathing polluted air.
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