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Moreover, it is fanciful to think that a trade deficit – which is merely a reflection of saving and investment activity both inside and outside the country – can be suppressed with protectionist policies.
Policies aimed at “solving” trade deficits will always fail.
It requires a discontinuous leap in expectations and policies, and a fundamental shift in the political and social consensus.
But I would remind them of the second lesson from developing countries’ experience: non-inclusive growth patterns undermine trust and eventually governance, in turn undercutting policymakers’ ability to sustain policies and strategies that support high growth.
As happens almost everywhere, the transition became a moment to scrutinize the outgoing government’s policies, even if the new administration does not intend to modify those policies in the short term.
Then, in a series of leaks and explicit statements, the new government pointed out the previous policies’ high legal, bureaucratic, and financial costs, and that many more crimes of all types were committed, despite sharply higher spending on law enforcement and security.
In short, the most recent emblem of the traditional, internationally imposed drug-enforcement approach, based on punitive and prohibitionist policies, is turning out to be a catastrophic failure, costing Mexico dearly while producing no results for the country, the rest of Latin America, or the US.
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently conceded in congressional testimony that some regulation of his industry is necessary, and there is now an open window of opportunity to pursue new policies for the sector.
In formulating such policies – whether through legislation, regulatory rule-setting, international agreements, or measures addressing related issues such as tax and trade – the goal should be to limit the downsides of technology without stifling innovation.
Devising sensible policies on this front will require that we first define the market, and then decide what level of concentration, and over what time frame, constitutes a threat to competition.
Policies to address distributional concerns should not suppress entrepreneurship or discourage work, saving, and investment, especially for new market entrants.
As a result, mitigation policies are necessary.
But if the government accompanied effective demand-side measures with active labor-market policies, at least the employment problem could be effectively addressed, and optimal – or at least reasonable – policies for economic restructuring could be designed.
The first line of the IPCC’s press release declared, “Close to 80% of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies.”
But the self-interest of energy companies, biofuel producers, insurance firms, lobbyists, and others in supporting “green” policies is a point that is often missed.
Business support for expensive policies such as the Kyoto Protocol – which would have done very little for climate change – indicate otherwise.
Acting together, these countries could make a massive difference with relatively modest policies.
Now they must work together to unbundle the energy sector, reform their power utilities’ governance to boost transparency and profitability, establish robust regulatory institutions, and implement longer-term policies to crowd in relevant investment.
When Bill Clinton assumed the presidency, his advisers were bent on distancing the new administration from George H.W. Bush’s policies.
But Clinton quickly warmed to Bandar, and Bandar and the royal court would become crucial to Clinton’s regional policies, ranging from Arab-Israeli peace talks to containing Iraq.
Together in RecoveryNEW YORK – The United Nations’ recently released World Economic Situation and Prospects mid-year report warns that the global economy is at risk of a severe downturn, unless world leaders’ short-term mindset gives way to a focus on medium- and long-term policies.
This, in turn, implies the need to balance coherent macroeconomic policies with structural transformation goals.
After all, for three decades prior to the crisis, developing countries were told to liberalize, and to pursue export-oriented policies, leaving them structurally dependent on advanced-country demand, which remains weak.
Since fiscal room for maneuver is severely restricted in many economies, and expansionary monetary policies have reached their limits, addressing the global crisis effectively requires global cooperation – by governments, businesses, and employees.
Indeed, without international coordination, national policies will be ineffective, and it will be impossible to tame commodity prices or stabilize exchange rates.
Projections by the UN suggest that a coordinated economic-recovery agenda centered around such policies would boost annual global output growth to an average rate of 4%, and close the jobs deficit, by 2016 – a far better outlook than that implied by the current approach.
For starters, the politics of trying to align national policies with a regional vision must change.
This new nationalism takes different economic forms: trade barriers, asset protection, reaction against foreign direct investment, policies favoring domestic workers and firms, anti-immigration measures, state capitalism, and resource nationalism.
Anemic economic recovery has provided an opening for populist parties, promoting protectionist policies, to blame foreign trade and foreign workers for the prolonged malaise.
The populist policies of the past four years have not brought economic improvement.
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