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The first change concerns China’s
pattern
of economic growth, which so far has been achieved mostly by rapidly increasing factor inputs – labor, capital, and energy.
In other words, China’s growth
pattern
is coming to resemble that of industrialized economies.
Employment remains low and is lagging GDP growth, a
pattern
that began at least three recessions ago and that has become more pronounced with each recovery.
These powerful twin forces have upset the long-run equilibrium in advanced economies’ labor markets, with too much education and too many skills invested in an outmoded growth
pattern.
Second, achieving full potential growth requires that the widespread
pattern
of public-sector underinvestment be reversed.
But the immediate issue confronting many economies is different: restoring a resilient and inclusive growth
pattern
that achieves whatever the trend in potential growth permits.
The debate about how to respond is complicated by the fact that the Cheonan’s sinking does not seem to be a stand-alone event, but was, instead, part of a change in North Korea’s general
pattern
of behavior.
I believe that this change in North Korea’s
pattern
of behavior is profoundly related to recent fundamental changes there.
A similar
pattern
can be found in the distribution of votes in the 2012 US presidential election or in French support for Marine Le Pen’s National Front in the 2015 regional elections.
This was the classic
pattern
of postwar development in the European periphery – countries like Spain and Portugal.
This
pattern
suggests that the central objective of Chinese leaders’ visits to India is not to advance cooperation on a shared agenda, but to reinforce China’s own interests, beginning with its territorial claims.
Yet the
pattern
seen in the UK is oddly familiar: in the United States, Republican voters disregarded the pundits and nominated Donald Trump as their party’s presidential candidate; in France, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front, elicits little sympathy among experts, but has strong popular support.
But its nascence follows a pattern: revolutions in science tend to come from completely unexpected places.
His eloquent resignation letter made clear that he objected not just to the Syrian blunder, but to a
pattern
of behavior: Trump’s confusion of allies and opponents; his willingness to abandon friends, such as the Kurds; and his trashing of alliances, such as NATO.
Instead, it is distributed among countries in a
pattern
that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game.
The Chinese economy’s performance has thus maintained the cyclical
pattern
familiar from the past two decades: rapid investment growth, supported by expansionary policy, drives up the economic-growth rate.
There is no reason to doubt that the Chinese economy in 2013 will follow the old growth
pattern.
This regional pattern, of population decline in Europe, Russia and Ukraine, needs to be set against the larger picture of a 3 billion increase globally, mainly in the developing world.
The G-20 is focusing on the need to “re-balance” financial flows, altering the old
pattern
of US deficits matching Chinese surpluses.
Iran’s Long Economic JourneyLONDON – The landslide re-election of Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, reflects the by now familiar
pattern
of continuity and change that has characterized Iran’s major elections over the last two decades.
Although it remains wary of international intervention by the EU, the substance and
pattern
of ESDP operations are likely to win China’s respect for several reasons.
The historian Harold James argues that the dominant
pattern
is that the nationalist right is strongest in the two EU countries that are haunted by their imperial legacies, France and the United Kingdom.
Achieving a sustainable
pattern
of growth requires choices that affect not just the level of aggregate demand, but also its composition – for example, investment versus consumption.
Assuming this
pattern
holds, what can we expect from the new crop of mostly center-right, mainstream Latin American governments?
That outcome is hardly assured, but it would fit with a historical
pattern
of overreaction to earnings changes.
Unfortunately, it confirms a
pattern
that has boon woven for some time: the growing conviction among a majority of Americans that they owe nothing to the world and that they can pursue their interests as if the outside world does not exist.
While this
pattern
of official behavior is reprehensible, the real disaster is that it destroyed Arabs’ economic productivity and initiative.
For starters, there is the changing
pattern
of consumption in the advanced economies.
The Palestinian Struggle for Mastery in PalestineIsrael's reoccupation of Palestinian cities and towns culminates a predictable
pattern.
These follow a predictable pattern, locking the two sides into an escalation that will push toward a total and final confrontation.
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