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These policies would affect US economic growth, the budget deficit, national saving, and hence global trade and capital flows.
Europe’s Year of IndecisionNEW YORK – The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic forces, but was largely created by the policies pursued, or not pursued, by world leaders.
Attendees were asked to sign “The Bali Declaration,” a pledge to implement specific health-care policies proven to help bring down TB and diabetes rates.
Cameron’s initial reaction to exit polls indicating that the Conservatives would be able to govern without a coalition partner was to call for a return to the “One Nation” policies – emphasizing the reduction of social and economic inequalities – that defined his party 50 years ago.
In this kind of politics, rulers are insulated from democratic accountability by a panoply of restraints that limit the range of policies they can deliver.
Bureaucratic bodies, autonomous regulators, and independent courts set policies, or they are imposed from outside by the rules of the global economy.
Despite their protests, Reinhart and Rogoff were accused of providing scholarly cover for a set of policies for which there was, in fact, limited supporting evidence.
Despite such differences, either would carry out policies closer to those of Bush’s second term than his first.
Airing the IMF’s Dirty LaundryBERKELEY – Following the International Monetary Fund’s controversial actions in the Asian financial crisis of 1998, when it conditioned liquidity assistance to distressed countries on government belt-tightening, the IMF established an Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) to undertake arm’s-length assessments of its policies and programs.
And we should challenge our political leaders to account for expensive policies that achieve much less.
Those countries that opt for reform will require not only political courage, but also well-crafted policies.
But policies to improve nutrition come closer than most.
We have choices to make about all our policies, and these choices are not morally indifferent.
Sometimes countries adopt policies that threaten their survival, conscious that they are doing so.
From anti-immigration policies in the United States to flaring geopolitical hotspots in the Middle East and East Asia, disruption, upheaval, and uncertainty seem to be the order of the day.
Formal League of Nations mandates and other instruments of hegemony were exercised to ensure British and French power over oil, ports, shipping lanes, and local leaders’ foreign policies.
One, less likely and less discussed, is that the UK leaves the EU and pursues social and economic policies – for example, concerning corporate taxes – that are deliberately intended to undercut the competitive position of Ireland and other European countries.
Although some in the British government claim that the case for exiting Europe is the need to avoid costly regulations, the truth is that the minimum wage and other social policies are national – not EU creations.
The political writer Timothy Garton Ash has described a “dysfunctional triangle” of national politics that is enduringly strong, European policies that seem remote, and global markets that are demanding and fickle.
In fact, I would venture to predict that the northern powerhouse project, which has already attracted the attention of local and foreign investors, will be one of the UK’s most important structural economic policies for many years to come.
As could be expected, Che applied Soviet policies to the Cubans: agriculture was destroyed and ghost factories dotted the landscape.
Third, it was (somewhat naively) believed that the institutions underpinning the euro would improve the overall quality of economic policy, as though Europe-wide policies would automatically be better than national ones.
Moreover, the targets mostly involved policies that do not require any supra-national coordination, such as labor policies, childcare, and pensions.
Selective migration policies and talent-friendly environments supported at the European level could significantly improve the net skill migration balance, which is currently negative or zero in all EU countries.
The so-called “blue-card” process has so far been largely unsuccessful, because there was no incentive for individual states to coordinate their policies.
How about conditioning EU support to national researchers on the adoption of selective migration policies?
There are, of course, serious downside risks to this forecast, especially if the fiscal deficit remains high or adverse tax policies depress the rise in productivity.
The government should take the weak ten-year projection as a warning and a reason to devote policies to reducing fiscal deficits and strengthening incentives for growth.
Even governments supposedly on the right, under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, pursued socialist economic policies.
But that has not stopped politicians such as US President Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen of the French National Front from proposing interventionist and protectionist policies.
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