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From a historical perspective, CFT essentially amounts to a unilateral activation of the scarce-currency clause (Article 7) of the Bretton Woods Agreement, which allowed the International Monetary Fund to declare “scarce” the currency of a country running a persistent trade surplus, permitting other members to discriminate against its goods.
This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world’s developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.
Yet the plans have fueled the most persistent anti-American protests on Okinawa in decades, owing to safety concerns.
And, in view of persistent lackluster growth and deflation risk in most advanced economies, monetary policymakers will have to continue their lonely fight with a new set of “unconventional unconventional” monetary policies.
But the shared understanding that unity delivers peace, prosperity, and democracy has been weakened over time by persistent crises, and it could now be lost completely unless it is reinforced by a forward-looking message.
But now increasingly persistent unemployment and under-employment are giving new impetus to the rise in inequality, as the OECD reported to the G-20 in July.
The real strength of the US is not its military power but its soft power, which has been badly eroded not just by Trump, but also by persistent racial discrimination.
That has been the story for the last 20 years in Japan, owing to persistent deflation and near-zero interest rates on many assets.
Meanwhile, excessive income and wealth inequalities are weakening the fabric of societies; persistent joblessness in advanced countries is undermining productivity and skills; policy effectiveness and flexibility are deteriorating; and the world economy is facing increasing challenges in accommodating the development breakout phase in systemically important emerging economies.
Though policy alternates between supply-side and neo-Keynesian enthusiasm, the one persistent reality is a significant decline of investment as a share of national income in most high-income countries in recent years.
Neither neo-Keynesians nor supply-siders focus on the true remedies for this persistent drop in investment spending.
In the US, the Bush Administration is skeptical of the stimulative power of monetary policy and wants bigger fiscal deficits to reduce unemployment, hoping that the future dangers posed by persistent deficits -- low investment, slow growth, loss of confidence, uncontrolled inflation and exchange rate depreciation-- can be finessed, or will not become visible until after the Bush team leaves office.
So most economists came to view persistent unemployment as an extraordinary circumstance that arises only when things go terribly wrong, certainly not the normal state of market economies.
This was of course an affront to the gods of the market, who responded by meting out divine retribution in the form of high and persistent inflation.
But, given high unemployment in Europe and spare capacity in China, plus the persistent deflationary pressures from technology and global competition, the dangers of overheating are years away.
Of course, it is impossible to make serious inroads against poverty without generating persistent economic growth.
Of course, persistent swings from parity do not last forever.
But both the problem and its worsening reflect a toxic combination of deep-seated hostility and persistent neglect.
This new round of central-bank activism reflects persistent concerns about economic growth.
Such “inadvertent escalation” can stem from a pattern of imprudent operational behavior, for example, or from persistent strategic miscalculation.
American media and the private sector will continue to exert pressure on persistent cyber offenders like China to change their behavior by “naming and shaming” them.
Despite wide and persistent swings in actual currency markets, their so-called “rational expectations models” predict that exchange rates should not deviate from parity in any lasting way.
Above all, I believe that economic development should be viewed as a process of persistent structural change, which, if successful, supports constant technological upgrading of production and trade.
How is it that people with little or no medical explanation for a persistent pain become partially or totally disabled by it, even with extensive and resourceful treatment?
For starters, zero inflation and persistent periods of deflation – when the target is 0% and inflation is below target – may lead to debt deflation.
Everything else, including lack of a persistent economic upswing can and should be blamed on Europe's supply side.
DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which stigmatized the chemical and effectively constituted a prohibition.
A renewed commitment to macroeconomic and financial stability allows governments to rein in persistent deficits and growing debts and address their economies’ increasing volume of bad loans.
The generalized version of this proposition is that secular stagnation – the persistent underuse of potential resources – is the fate of all economies that rely on private investment to fill the gap between income and consumption.
Cultural Imperialism and the Ban on DDTThe UN Environment Program (UNEP) is embarked on a misguided campaign to ban the pesticide DDT under its Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Framework Convention.
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