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Lower potential growth also raises the risk of populist policies, which would most likely have to be offset with higher spreads.
The first step towards implementing such policies, however, must be to re-invent and reinvigorate a pan-African identity.
Sarkozy might even tone down his attacks on the ECB, whose single-minded, inflation-fighting policies have made it one of his favorite targets.
Third, over-saving countries like China and emerging Asia, Germany, and Japan should implement policies that reduce their savings and current-account surpluses.
Such an outcome will bolster populist forces elsewhere – from Italy to France to the US – in their advocacy of isolationist policies that most experts regard as economic nonsense.
To oppose such forces and policies, mainstream political parties will have to address their failure, even with the facts on their side, to offer a narrative compelling enough to convince voters to choose economic openness.
Economic policies are usually not technocratic in this sense.
Economists call policies where no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off Pareto efficient.
If choices among policies were purely Paretian, i.e., if no one was made worse off by choosing one policy, as against another, the choices involved would indeed be purely "technical."
Instead, some policies are better for some groups, but worse for others.
Different policies benefit and hurt different groups.
Different policies might have imposed more risk on international lenders, and less on workers and domestic firms.
Technocrats can sometimes help avoid Pareto inferior policies, that is, policies that make everyone worse off.
Sometimes there are policies that can promote both growth and equality, and the job of good economists is to search for them.
The problem is that many policies advanced by technocrats as if they were Pareto efficient are in fact flawed and make many people--sometimes entire countries--worse off.
Democratic processes are likely to be more sensitive to the real consequences of policies, to the real tradeoffs involved.
Similar policies need to be adopted by a greater number of countries to enable them to address their energy challenges in a more effective way.
An integrated, continent-wide energy strategy, linked to national policies for growth would, indeed, go a long way toward addressing this important need.
After the event, Beck gave an interview, in which he criticized Obama – not for his tax policies, but for having the wrong religious beliefs.
While providing relatively fewer tangible public goods and services directly, the Chinese government will need to provide more intangible public goods and services like rules, standards, and policies.
Such policies and institutional improvements increase productivity, promote competition, facilitate specialization, enhance the efficiency of resource allocation, protect the environment, and reduce risks and uncertainties.
Finally, farmers’ rights need to be protected, the efficiency of land use must be increased, and policies for acquisition of rural land for urban use should be overhauled.
Doing so will require greater sustained attention to underserved rural areas and migrant populations, and to restructuring social policies in order to ensure secure safety nets.
The question now is whether a shift in focus from unconventional monetary policies to Keynesian demand management can save the day.
And, indeed, the new CEO shows up with big plans, spending the first six months dismantling and castigating past policies and practices, sometimes without rhyme or reason.
When world leaders meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year to craft a response to the challenges of global warming, they should put in place policies to protect tropical forests and the people who make them their home.
In 2010, growth reached an impressive 7.5% clip, as highly expansionary fiscal and monetary policies, implemented in response to the global financial crisis, lifted the economy out of harm’s way.
Today, similar policies are again doing the trick, with GDP growth picking up in the second half of 2012 and expected to reach more than 4% in 2013.
In my view, the intellectual case for activist policies – as made, for example, by Dani Rodrik and Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard – is strong.
But Rodrik and Hausmann also show that getting such policies right implies exacting requirements.
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