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The evidence points in a similar direction for some measures aimed at liberalizing current-account transactions (trade in goods and services).
The idealism of Bangladesh’s young demonstrators, however, points to a new development.
While some see no contradiction, the fact that many of the collaborators who killed secular and pro-democracy Bengalis in 1971 claimed to be doing so in the name of Islam points to an evident tension.
But it must navigate a difficult path, because both points of view have significant public support.
Little wonder, then, that the latest release of the closely followed minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting points to a divided body, whose members anticipate divergent paths for monetary policy, with some expecting further accommodation and others expecting a round of tightening.
As the former diplomat Thomas Christensen points out in his recent book The China Challenge, China “has major incentives to avoid unnecessary conflict.”
Since 1945, the unemployment rate fell by 0.8 percentage points under Democrats, on average, and rose by 1.1 percentage points under Republicans – a remarkable difference of 1.9 percentage points.
A recent surge has put Lula within 5 or 6 points of a first-round win.
Moreover, in countries where Google is criticized for blocking access to information, it points out the information’s absence when something is blocked – letting people know that it exists but that they can’t have access to it.
On the other hand, every time someone in China Googles something and gets an answer – a product’s good and bad points, the details about someone the government does not like – he must wonder, “Why can’t I get this kind of information about everything?”
That points to rising balance-of-payments and multilateral trade deficits, which are impossible to resolve through targeted bilateral actions against a single country.
That is why official data points to extremely low inflation rates over the next few years, despite the monetary and fiscal stimulus.
By the end of 2007, the average public debt in the eurozone was 65% of GDP, five points above the ceiling set in the Maastricht treaty for countries seeking eurozone membership.
As a result, productivity has stagnated in Europe since 2007, whereas it has improved by more than six percentage points in the US.
Then came the “taper tantrum” in the spring of 2013, when US long-term interest rates shot up by 100 basis points after then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted at an end to the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities.
Likewise, in October 2014, US Treasury yields plummeted by almost 40 basis points in minutes, which statisticians argue should occur only once in three billion years.
The latest episode came just last month, when, in the space of a few days, ten-year German bond yields went from five basis points to almost 80.
Because combating climate change entails making decisions at different points over a long period of time, a key aspect to addressing the problem is to recognize that as stocks of greenhouse gases rise, we will learn more about the distribution of possible outcomes.
A recent report points to a sobering fact: all 30 major companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange have so far employed a paltry 54 refugees.
Across the OECD, students who attend preschool for one year or more scored significantly higher (30 points) on its Programme for International Student Assessment reading tests than those who did not.
By modifying these accounts within the public-sector balance sheet, expected pensions will be unchanged, while the public debt/GDP ratio will fall by eight percentage points.
Powell himself points out that, in Zimbabwe, many women fought for the country’s independence in the Rhodesian Bush War.
These points are particularly germane for the hardest-hit economies.
Precisely because of all the offsetting factors, the US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the recent tax cuts will add just 0.08 percentage points to the average annual growth rate over the next decade, and the long-run output effects could be smaller or even negative.
He points out that people’s choices and assessments of current events are partly based on the stories they have heard about past events.
It has a nuclear first- and second-strike capability; its own satellite communications systems; increasingly sophisticated and numerous aircraft and war ships; a rapidly growing economy to sustain high levels of military investment; as well as its own political and diplomatic points of leverage at places like the UN.
What is hardest to forecast, though, are turning points – when the old relationships break down.
While there may be some factors that signal turning points – a run-up in short-term leverage and asset prices, for example, often presages a bust – they are not infallible predictors of trouble to come.
As the United States Global Change Research Program’s recently released draft report on climate change points out, some kinds of weather events have become more common, and more intense, in recent years.
The gap is not wide – six percentage points of per capita GDP – but the trend is worrying enough to call for a correction.
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