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In this increasingly fragmented and polarized political landscape, the process of forming national governments has become long and arduous; even Sweden is following this unfortunate new
pattern.
The evidence today suggests that this
pattern
can be repeated when the United States departs Mesopotamia and leaves Iraqis to define their own fate.
All of this structural change is part of a constantly shifting global economic landscape whose aggregate
pattern
is not perfectly predictable, in part because countries enter and engage with the global economy at different times and expand at different rates.
China accelerated to a high-growth
pattern
in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, owing to the benefits of its low-cost labor and a major change in economic policy.
The
pattern
in other Western nations is similar.
The current search for a new IMF head continues this
pattern.
But while the absolute increase in required investment is moderate, the IEA’s low-carbon scenario entails a dramatic change in the
pattern
of investment.
Gas and coal prices have followed a similar
pattern.
That boom-and-bust
pattern
may well continue.
Part of the answer is that economics is an inexact science, with exceptions to almost every
pattern
of behavior that economists take for granted.
But students of economics will no doubt remember an early encounter with “Giffen goods,” which violate the usual
pattern.
But Justin Lin, a former World Bank chief economist, has argued forcefully that investment will and should remain a key growth driver, and that domestic consumption in China’s growth
pattern
should not be pushed beyond its natural limits into a high-leverage model based on rising consumer debt.
The shift in the growth pattern, if successful, will occur over several years.
Moreover, social services and social security will need to be strengthened in order to reverse a
pattern
of rising inequality.
In early 2012, in his speech to the annual People’s Congress, Premier Wen Jiabao, explaining why the government’s indicative target for economic growth in 2012 was 7.5%, pointed out that the purpose was “to guide people in all sectors to focus their work on accelerating the transformation of the
pattern
of economic development and making economic development more sustainable and efficient.”
In fact, in order to create adequate space for changing the GDP-centered growth pattern, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan set an indicative target of 7% annual average GDP growth in 2010-2015.
America’s regional position weakened, and Iran’s strengthened, following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq;US intervention in Syria could reproduce that
pattern.
The overall
pattern
is familiar: China imports North Korean raw materials, such as coal, and exports machinery, consumer goods, and refined petroleum products.
A sharp growth slowdown is the other component of this overshooting adjustment
pattern.
Pegging their currencies to the US dollar has aggravated this pro-cyclical
pattern.
But can this apparently benign
pattern
of global growth be sustained, particularly since growth has been accompanied by ever-widening global financial imbalances?
This
pattern
also characterizes the current recovery, and recent data suggest that mismatches between the demand and supply of labor by industry are back to pre-recession levels.
If Obama’s speech turns out to mark the start of a new era of progressive politics in America, it would fit a
pattern
explored by one of America’s great historians, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who documented roughly 30-year intervals between periods of what he called “private interest” and “public purpose.”
The
pattern
begins in parliamentary deadlock.
The United States has commenced its “pivot” to Asia, and its relations with China, in particular, seem constantly to be flirting with Thucydides’s trap, the historical
pattern
that suggests that a rising power will inevitably collide with a reigning power.
Three Paths for Indebted DemocraciesCHICAGO – Democratic governments are not incentivized to take decisions that have short-term costs but produce long-term gains, the typical
pattern
for any investment.
Now is the time to reverse this
pattern.
However, the Senegalese
pattern
of state-religious relations allows the government to provide partial funding to such private religious schools.
Despite the historical
pattern
of Pakistani civilian leaders talking peace while armed men slip across the border, many in India believe that this time might be different.
This reversal is consistent with the
pattern
established elsewhere, including on the Yangtze: China temporarily suspends a controversial plan after major protests in order to buy time while public passions cool, before resurrecting the same plan.
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