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Brazil is the recent pacesetter, markedly expanding public education and systematically attacking remaining pockets of poverty through targeted transfer programs.
But the euro was not just the outcome of an idiosyncratic quest to reduce the wear on pockets stuffed with odd national coins, or to facilitate intra-European trade.
Because politicians are in the pockets of the incumbents who reap the rents.
Liberalization attempts in energy and public utilities have faltered, perhaps also because the government pockets monopoly rents through dividends from public enterprises.
It also assumes China’s annual growth rate will stabilize at 6.5-7%, thereby enabling the risks posed by pockets of excessive leverage in the shadow-banking system to be gradually defused, even as the economy’s growth engines continue to shift from exports and public capital spending toward domestic consumption and private investment.
These are bold assumptions – not least because achieving these outcomes would require considerable economic reinvention, extending far beyond rebalancing aggregate demand and eliminating pockets of excessive indebtedness.
Climate change and shifting diets have created new risk categories, while wealth inequalities and political exclusion have produced deeper pockets of vulnerability.
As governments and citizens around the world become aware of the influence that China can buy with its deep pockets, is an anti-Chinese backlash inevitable?
True, putting cash in the pockets of rich savers hardly seems as effective as giving cash to poor people who live hand to mouth.
First, while broad financial stability has been restored, and bank capital has been boosted significantly as a result of last year's “stress tests,” there are still important pockets of weakness.
But General Babangida also has deep pockets.
Incentives for executives would be adjusted, and running these companies would no longer be so much about lining their own pockets.
The question is this: how much of the money went to meritorious development projects, and how much went instead to prop up the regime and line its leaders’ pockets?
When the US and Europe threatened to withdraw financial support from Egypt in order to influence the behavior of the country’s military leadership, they soon realized that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states could be much more convincing, because they had much deeper pockets.
At the same time, with enthusiasm for privatization declining globally, governments remain significant – and, in many cases, controlling – owners of large pockets of corporate wealth.
Pockets of disease will rise and fall.
As a result, consumers – especially in the United States – pay a multiple of what payments should cost, lining the pockets of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and banks with tens of billions of dollars of “rents” – excessive profits – every year.
Governments therefore have very deep pockets with which to move markets if needed.
Pockets of institutional independence in Malta that had survived four years of populism were quashed.
From experience, they know that any money sent to Italy or Greece will probably come from them, not the top 0.1% – not to mention that it will probably end up in the pockets of vile Greek oligarchs, or of private German companies that have purchased Greek assets for next to nothing.
Poor vaccination coverage and large pockets of unvaccinated children resulted in devastating outbreaks in many parts of the world, including in countries that had high vaccination rates or had previously eliminated the disease.
Under such conditions, growth may remain positive, but it will be insufficient to accommodate the demands of other forces: pockets of excessive indebtedness, rising demand for social services, the need for better infrastructure, and deepening popular anger, political polarization, and alienation.
But while strong economic growth will be needed to ensure that these trends resume, there are pockets of people who have been left behind.
Rather than channeling the automation dividend into the pockets of a few billionaires, we should start using it to restore meaningful connections between obligatorily gregarious beings.
Otherwise, the US economy will continue to be hobbled while crooks and grifters line their pockets.
Some politicians used the company to hire friends and finance campaigns; others used it to line their own pockets.
What they knew is that a famously corrupt company was jacking up prices and sticking its filthy hand into their pockets.
Instead, they focused on getting money into people’s pockets and enabling them to continue exercising their agency.
Instead, Trump needles rather than wheedles for trade deals, and happily pockets the benefits to the US economy that result from doldrums abroad.
For countries that borrowed under democratic governments, external debts could be restructured on generous terms, and similar options could be provided to long-term creditors and those who have undertaken foreign direct investment in the emerging world (because these forms of lending are less likely to end up in autocrats’ pockets).
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