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In contrast to other mavericks, Macron’s campaign will be positive.
As President-elect Donald Trump moves toward taking office, he seems eager to make plenty of changes – some more positive than others.
Even low positive interest rates, if maintained for a prolonged period, could backfire, fueling asset bubbles and enabling household and corporate debt to grow to unsustainable levels.
Historical evidence, not to mention Japan’s experience with a falling yen, suggests that it takes several quarters, or even years, before the positive impact of currency depreciation on net exports is felt.
The subsequent two years of neutral fiscal policy has made a positive difference for economic performance.
It is time for India’s leaders to recognize the positive role that IP can play in fostering growth and improving citizens’ wellbeing.
Personally, I think the greater risk is that the pace of technological progress will accelerate too much for societies to adapt, though the experience so far has basically been positive.
At the same time, Libya’s leaders must recognize and build upon the few positive aspects of Qaddafism.
The most important positive component of Qaddafi’s legacy, however, was the partial emancipation of women.
Everyone, indeed, knows that food can have a positive or negative impact on health.
For starters, it is more difficult to rally support for a positive agenda than it is to build solidarity through opposition to presumed enemies.
Instead of employing the dyspeptic condemnations of “relativism,” “secularism,” “nihilism,” and other “-isms” that John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI used to rally their base, Francis has formulated a positive agenda focused on social justice.
To meet these challenges successfully, there is no viable alternative to a positive, continuous, and frank engagement between China and the rest of the world.
But that May and June, ministers like me flew to Beijing for what seemed to us all to be a positive and truly historic occasion.
Our simulations indicate that a non-discriminatory trade regime would magnify the potential positive impact of depreciation in the real exchange rate (as a result of the reduction in wages) on Palestinian GDP.
Likewise, Iraq could return to center stage if the positive momentum of recent months were suddenly reversed, perhaps following a new outbreak of violence between the country’s Sunnis and Shia.
Those seeking the positive will find in the statistics concerning increased median income, reduced poverty, and record low unemployment; those in search of the bleak will find it in the 12% of America’s population that remains poor and in the country’s increasing concentration of wealth at the top.
But, overall, Africa is positioned for a positive year.
The government of a country hit by a positive shock could attain a target even without having done anything to achieve it.
This translated into series of positive initiatives towards the aspiring newcomers: the PHARE programme, the EBRD, the association agreements leading to a slow but steady strengthening of the EU's ties with candidate countries.
These are actually overstated, while the long-term positive effects of enlargement are generally underestimated.
It would also send a positive European signal for the post-war reconstruction in the Balkans.
The rise of GDP over the next ten years will reflect the very positive effect of the eventual recovery from the current deep downturn, combined with a below-trend rise in the economy’s potential output at full employment.
Moreover, even assuming that the impact of a permanent cut in public expenditure on demand and output is also permanent, the GDP reduction remains a one-off phenomenon, whereas the lower deficit continues to have a positive impact on the debt level year after year.
Prospective buyers of Italian ten-year bonds should look at the longer-term impact of deficit cutting on the debt level, which is pretty certain to be positive.
In the 1930s, in the midst of economic depression and sharp deflation, US Treasury bills sometimes traded at negative yields (and real returns were still positive).
To be sure, in addition to the negative storage effect, there might be a positive effect on the world climate insofar as bio-fuels may replace fossil fuels for combustion processes.
If they don’t, the positive effect will vanish.
For a change, they are mostly positive.
Has the quake given birth to some new, positive political force that will accelerate reform?
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