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And the rich world does have a moral obligation to move first and faster – with policies, technologies, and finance – to reduce the emissions that cause global warming.
The policies that China will adopt as part of its new five-year plan will shrink its trade and current-account surpluses.
After all, the policies that China will implement in the next few years target the country’s enormous saving rate – the cause of its large current-account surplus.
These policies are motivated by domestic considerations, as the Chinese government seeks to raise living standards more rapidly than the moderating growth rate of GDP.
But she acknowledged that the inevitable exit from ultra-easy monetary policies in the US and other developed economies could trigger financial-market instability in emerging economies, and pledged IMF support, including on a precautionary or pre-emptive basis, to assist them.
Over the long term, owing to increasing populations, expanding middle classes, and rapid productivity gains, emerging-market economies that pursue sound policies will continue to grow much faster than developed economies.
Instead of boosting infrastructure investment, governments have pursued austerity policies that are particularly harmful to low-skill workers.
The economic policies of the 1990s might have taken a different path if Bill Clinton had listened more to his labor secretary, Robert Reich, an academic and progressive policy advocate, and less to his Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, a former Goldman Sachs executive.
One team of economists has found that respondents “primed” by references to lobbyists or the Wall Street bailout display significantly lower levels of support for anti-poverty policies.
But a progressive left that is able to stand up to nativist politics will have to deliver a good story, in addition to good policies.
It embraced macroeconomic prudence, liberalized its economic policies, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), invested in education, and implemented innovative policies to combat poverty.
In the absence of productive development policies of the type used in East Asia, modern firms may have not been able to expand rapidly enough.
The beneficiaries of globalization are typically those countries that complemented it with a strategy to promote new activities, policies that favored the real economy over finance, and sequential reforms that emphasized high-productivity employment.
In the end, the effects of efficiency-minded reforms have been offset by factors – social insurance policies and market imperfections – that systematically channel too many resources to informal firms and create obstacles to formal firms.
When they do not, or when other policies perversely counter them, the results will be disappointing.
The second lesson is that countries need to pay close attention to how social insurance policies affect the behavior of firms and workers.
Rather, they require targeted, country-specific reforms that remove actual obstacles to the expansion of modern sectors, and social policies that are compatible with structural transformation.
Indeed, that is the key to understanding not only the vote count, but also Israeli public opinion, the next government, and its policies.
For the French, as for all Europeans, the EU is not a foreign entity, and its decisions are an integral part of domestic policies.
But regional neighbors find it hard to criticize one another’s policies and demand course corrections.
Delinking the CMIM from the IMF will require Asian countries to undertake hard-hitting reviews of one another’s policies and to demand difficult policy adjustments.
They could issue a Financial Stability Report that bluntly flags weak policies and financial vulnerabilities.
In short, emerging economies have been challenged by externally generated macroeconomic shifts, unconventional monetary policies, widespread volatility, and slow growth in developed markets.
As the classic sources of early comparative advantage dwindle, countries – particularly earlier-stage developing countries – will need to implement policies that feature services (including tradable services) more prominently; they will also need to adjust their investment in human capital.
His erratic foreign policies are spooking world leaders, multinational corporations, and global markets generally.
But, as the vacillation in financial markets since Trump’s inauguration indicates, the president’s inconsistent, erratic, and destructive policies will take their toll on domestic and global economic growth in the long run.
Western democracies are facing serious internal threats – most notably, populist forces espousing dangerous policies like trade protectionism – that have risen largely in response to these systems’ failure to manage problems such as income inequality, political polarization, rising debt, and failing infrastructure.
By contrast, when China’s leaders formulate and execute policies, they tend to think in terms of decades.
The US – and, indeed, the rest of the world – should also be pursuing policies that support this outcome.
For China, that probably means ratcheting up economic incentives on North Korea to change its nuclear policies.
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