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In fact, policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

On the other hand, if policymakers maintain the stimulus for too long, runaway fiscal deficits may lead to a sovereign debt crisis (markets are already punishing fiscally undisciplined countries with larger sovereign spreads).

So what should policymakers do?

Europe persistently undershoots its growth targets because European policymakers persistently underestimate fiscal multipliers, pursuing austerity instead.

Many Europeans tried to argue in recent years that monetary policy should also take asset-price developments into account, whereas American policymakers and academics largely resisted this approach.

China’s policymakers also need to introduce measures to increase labor-force participation rates, rethink wage policy, and make social-insurance programs portable nationwide.

Policymakers will need to focus on increasing the technical and cognitive skills of university graduates, and on building a few world-class research universities with strong links to industry.

The proposals contained in China 2030 could provide a framework for Chinese policymakers as they seek to achieve their goal of sustainable and harmonious growth.

But policymakers don’t like to see growth slow, and central bankers exhausted their toolkits in an attempt to stimulate economic activity despite insufficient demand.

Thanks to falling unemployment, rising home values, and record stock prices, an emerging consensus of forecasters, market participants, and policymakers has now concluded that the American consumer is finally back.

It is important to begin establishing GDP-linked debt now, along the lines described in the new book, so that the biggest risks can be managed, and policymakers can focus on maintaining economic stability.

That seems plausible; and, given how important shale oil and gas has become to America’s economic recovery, it also seems like something that US policymakers would be eager to avoid.

It is crucial that we understand each, because their implications for policymakers – and thus for the future health and stability of the global economy – could not be greater.

In this sense, the crisis should have served as a wake-up call, spurring the financial sector, policymakers, and multilateral organizations to take action to enhance systemic stability.

Whether policymakers succeed will depend on whether they can navigate the challenges stemming from an increasingly divided dual-track economy.

In the long run, policymakers will have to explain to their people that they cannot have economic prosperity, a high level of social security, and a population in which pensioners place a growing burden on the economically active.

Instead, policymakers must find ways to strengthen the incentives for parents to send their daughters to school.

Policymakers should continue to facilitate the rollout of microfinance programs.

Funders and policymakers who keep up with the relevant research are slowly beginning to introduce more talking therapies (such as cognitive therapy and trauma-focused counseling), more alternatives to hospitalization, more culturally appropriate services, more family-focused therapy and, most importantly, more genuine consultation with service users about what actually works.

So, before the blowback begins, policymakers would do well to heed the strong precedent for excluding sovereign debt from a US investment treaty.

For US policymakers, the decision to add an annex excluding sovereign debt is a tough choice.

But it hasn’t, and, at the start of a new decade, it is time for policymakers to take religion seriously.

With the IMF in bailout frenzy, and Brazilian policymakers in denial, don't count on either for a successful program.

To gain the needed motivation, monetary policymakers should recall the “traveler’s dilemma,” a game theory parable that highlights the pitfalls of individual rationality.

But, as we have seen recently, capital flows are fickle, and if Sub-Saharan Africa is to take full advantage of the current global economic upswing, policymakers must tackle public-debt vulnerabilities head-on while they can.

While fears of meltdown have dissipated, these policies have been maintained or extended, with policymakers citing the fragility of the ongoing economic recovery and the absence of other, equally strong policy levers – such as fiscal policy or structural reforms – that could replace monetary policy quickly enough.

The resulting complacency, among policymakers and economists alike, contributed to the world economy becoming more vulnerable to a series of small shocks that, in 2008, culminated in a crisis that pushed the world to the brink of a devastating multi-year economic depression.

Meanwhile, policymakers overlooked the economic, political, and social consequences of rising inequality – not just of income and wealth, but also of opportunity – thereby allowing the middle class gradually to be hollowed out, a trend that was exacerbated by both technological and non-technological developments.

In the meantime, both economists and policymakers have an important role to play in improving the existing situation.

But policymakers have been largely oblivious to the shift – a failing that has undermined their ability to develop effective global solutions.

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