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America’s light, incomplete, and fragmented
pattern
of regulation will not survive, and it will not be used as a model in other parts of the world.
Setting aside financial sustainability, the most worrying aspect of the
pattern
was distributional: very low wage growth in the middle-income range.
The financial crisis that began in 2008 caused a sudden stop to the unsustainable
pattern
on the demand side.
But that pattern, too, is clearly unsustainable.
How to Fight Secular StagnationMILAN – Much of the world, especially the advanced economies, has been mired in a
pattern
of slow and declining GDP growth in recent years, causing many to wonder whether this is becoming a semi-permanent condition – so-called “secular stagnation.”
Spurring Private Investment for DevelopmentSTRASBOURG – Successful economic development has hewed to a well-known
pattern.
An even more striking
pattern
is that Americans are overly optimistic about social mobility in parts of the country where actual mobility is low – including the southeastern states of Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Spending is temporarily reduced and taxes raised, but the long-run structural deficit remains, a
pattern
now repeated in many state capitals and the primary reason for the current political turmoil over budgets and public sector unions.
(If vacationing officials detect a
pattern
in their summer reading, all the better.)
If prices remain low, as seems likely, the next decade might well see global trade stagnate, as the trade
pattern
“rebalances” from emerging economies to the established industrial powers.
The outlines of the structural changes needed to move toward a healthier, more sustainable growth
pattern
in the coming decade are relatively clear in China.
If current trends continue, with the US economy recovering slowly but steadily, the
pattern
of convergence with China will continue.
This
pattern
is set to change.
That discriminatory
pattern
can be found everywhere in Western Europe as well.
But, at the same time, it is unlikely that Europe’s economy will follow the
pattern
of emerging-market crises and rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes.
The
pattern
of Republican deficiency holds up when the span of historical analysis is extended by using stock returns to measure economic performance.
It was not long before some Chinese economists began to categorize the growth
pattern
brought about three decades ago by Deng Xiaoping’s reforms as “extensive” – and thus problematic.
While capital has been the largest contributor to China’s GDP, the economy’s TFP performance has been impressive – something that cannot be explained by an extensive growth
pattern.
If transforming China’s growth
pattern
were simply a matter of increasing TFP’s contribution to GDP to US levels, China’s annual GDP growth would have to drop to below 5% – three percentage points lower than its potential growth rate.
The
pattern
has become familiar: construct a dispute, initiate a jurisdictional claim through periodic incursions, and then increase the frequency and duration of such intrusions, thereby establishing a military presence or pressuring a rival to cut a deal on China’s terms.
This has been the entrenched and continuing pattern, including when I was the IMF’s chief economist (from early 2007 to August 2008).
Increasing debt to sustain current consumption, whether in the household or government sector, is rightly viewed as an unsustainable element of a growth
pattern.
(Whether the results of the government’s recent decision to increase the fiscal deficit to stimulate the economy follow this long-term growth-enhancing
pattern
remains to be seen.)
The continuation of this violent
pattern
seems almost certain because the region remains unable to resolve internal conflicts on its own, or to create anything like a resilient framework for peace.
Ancien régime France developed a similar pattern, borrowing in Amsterdam or Geneva in order to fight wars against Spain in the sixteenth and seventeen centuries, and against Britain in the eighteenth.
Is the world reverting to a growth
pattern
whereby the percentage gap between income levels in the aggregate “North” and “South” does not decrease?
Thus, the
pattern
in emerging market economies that liberalized capital inflows has been lower investment in the modern sectors of the economy, and eventually slower economic growth (once the consumption boom associated with the capital inflows plays out).
Trade in organs follows a clear, geographically linked pattern: people from rich countries buy the organs, and people in poor countries sell them.
The debate that follows will largely determine whether the US shifts toward a strong, inclusive, and sustainable
pattern
of growth and employment, and how the burden of moving to such a path will be shared by Americans of various ages, educational levels, incomes, and wealth.
They arise mainly from an increasingly integrated global economy’s shifting technological landscape; but they have been exacerbated by a systematic
pattern
of public-sector underinvestment.
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