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The fact that those high standards are now being systematically eroded has introduced a paradox for the EU.
There is an interesting paradox here.
The Liquidity Time BombNEW YORK – A paradox has emerged in the financial markets of the advanced economies since the 2008 global financial crisis.
The private sector can spend less and save more, but this would entail an immediate cost known as Keynes’ paradox of thrift: declining economic output and rising debt as a share of GDP.
Hence the paradox that earlier waves of reforms from the left – Keynesianism, social democracy, the welfare state – both saved capitalism from itself and effectively rendered themselves superfluous.
If that does not happen, next year’s European elections may give rise to an unfortunate paradox.
Premier Wen Jiabao laid the groundwork four years ago, when he first articulated the paradox of the “Four ‘Uns’” – an economy whose strength on the surface masked a structure that was increasingly “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and ultimately unsustainable.”
The paradox here is that the open-minded reformism they espoused helped stir conservative trends among Islamic thinkers, who seized on the reformists' revival of Islamic norms to urge a return to the "purity" of the first Islamic societies.
The paradox of water is that it sustains life but can also cause death when it becomes a carrier of deadly microbes or takes the form of a tsunami, flash flood, storm, or hurricane.
The paradox is clear.
It was a tragic paradox that the political movement that so peacefully swept China in 1989 ended up arresting the process of broad-based, evolutionary reform to which Zhao consecrated his life.
The paradox is that a US in crisis now needs Latin America more than ever.
But there is a paradox here, for this “something new” is also something very old.
In this sense Falun Gong is a double paradox: a traditionalistic movement freighted with deep historical symbolism, it is also a cyber-savvy, modern Chinese protest movement.
Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking.
But, in a country that faces so many problems, the paradox of Morsi’s removal from power and the dilemmas of democracy that occasioned it are not among them.
Still, a central paradox plagues the MDGs.
The Other AsiaWASHINGTON, DC – South Asia presents a depressing paradox.
This paradox shows the post-crisis confusion and disillusionment is not yet over.
Shortages of the technical and higher-level skills demanded by new technologies are partly responsible for the paradox of booming technology and slowing productivity growth in advanced economies: skills shortages have constrained the diffusion of innovations.
The paradox is that the only party that seems to survive no matter what are the Communists.
The paradox is that this has been good for holding the line on protectionism.
Most importantly, they must comprehend the ultimate paradox that each of these principles highlights: globalization works best when it is not pushed too far.
Asia’s Dysfunctional DemocraciesThe abrupt resignation of Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is but another sign of a disturbing paradox: the more “vigorous” Asian democracy becomes, the more dysfunctional it is.
The paradox is that at Cardiff Tony Blair talked more positively about the single currency than he has ever done before; he even sounded almost wistful, as if he wished Britain could have opted to join the other 11 member states in the first wave.
A paradox, indeed, haunts Venezuela: if people abroad have such a poor view of our country, then perhaps we are going to the dogs, regardless of what we see around us.
We do not need the rise of robots to account for the growth-unemployment paradox.
The paradox here is that the crisis presents a unique opportunity for the United States and China to strike a deal that would lay the groundwork for a global climate agreement.
The paradox of Latin America’s food crisis is that, although the region is a major food producer, it sometimes needs to rely on imports to prevent sporadic shortages.
We rely on such models to explain, for example “the paradox of thrift,” whereby individual decisions to increase saving can, by depressing spending and output, result in the population as a whole saving less.
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