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But, whereas America’s problem in the world today is that domestic pressures sometimes lead to an excess of fortitude, China’s problem is that similarly constraining pressures produce foreign-policy weakness.
To be sure, more incidents of global terrorism associated with Pakistan, such as July’s London bombings, will bring new pressures.
If we review debates about Japan since 1988 we recognize the international pressures felt by Japan’s politicians and policymakers.
But a reduction in emissions of soot (and other short-lived climate pollutants) could alleviate the pressures on the climate in the coming decades.
He will need to stimulate the economy and avoid protectionist pressures at home, while also taking the lead in restructuring the global financial system.
France would be off the reform hook, of course, but at the expense of Germany, which would face unwanted inflationary pressures.
Greece’s experience during the euro crisis showed that cutting benefits can force retirees to reduce their consumption, causing recessionary pressures.
Moreover, the US and China – indeed, the entire global economy – are suffering from weak aggregate demand, which is creating deflationary pressures.
As central banks attempt to combat these pressures by lowering interest rates, they are inadvertently causing releveraging (an unsustainable growth pattern), elevated asset prices (with some risk of a downward correction, given slow growth), and devaluations (which merely move demand around the global economy, without increasing it).
The former blew up from the internal pressures of poverty, inequity, and anger, and the latter was swept away in an avalanche of rejection and resentment, the tail end of which Egypt is still experiencing.
But if inflationary pressures do indeed materialize, current growth might last significantly longer than forecasters and markets believe.
The primary goals are now economic, reflecting growing pressures and priorities inside Iran as well as the shifting measure of power worldwide.
Although it is difficult to say how contemporary pressures will eventually manifest themselves, Tiananmen Square-style protests are unlikely.
If emerging conflicts and competitive pressures lead to, say, economic sanctions or the obstruction of key trade routes, the resulting balkanization of global trade would diminish globalization’s benefits substantially.
That way, immigration will improve the quality of supply in the labor market and boost firms’ competitiveness, without generating cultural pressures.
And those pressures are powerful, as demonstrated by the tragic situation in the Mediterranean Sea, where more than a thousand refugees on the treacherous route from Africa to Europe died in the first four months of this year.
If these pressures are allowed to persist, many migrants will ultimately make it to the developed world, one way or another.
And while immigration liberals are right that migrants will help to ease demographic pressures in recipient countries, the prohibitionists are right that the newcomers will place considerable cultural stress on their new communities, particularly in Europe.
Population growth pressures are falling, providing a powerful long-term boost to Brazil's economic development.
“Market pressures …appear poised to stabilize and over the longer run possibly to decrease the US current-account deficit and its attendant financing requirements,” he said.
In fact, it is far from certain that Iran will be able to withstand current sanctions-related pressures indefinitely.
The distorted pricing cause by regulatory pressures is amplified by a kind of conditioned response among bond investors.
Although the Nuffield Report does not explicitly recommend relaxing the UK regulatory system, it does not adequately address the pressures toward consumer choice, deregulation, and commercialization.
Moreover, capital inflows to the EU candidates are likely to accelerate as accession draws near, adding to inflationary pressures.
But even if Ahmadinejad’s overzealous attempt to deliver “the oil money to peoples’ dinner tables” added to inflationary pressures, it also seems to have reduced poverty and inequality significantly.
Where are the competitive pressures for innovative thinking in government?
From immigration to trade liberalization, economic pressures on a beleaguered middle class contradict the core promises of globalization.
The design of more enlightened policies must account for the powerful pressures now bearing down on a much broader array of workers.
On the economy, the climate debate and security, the immediate pressures pretty much run one way: increase the role of government in the economy; put the climate deal off to more congenial financial times; and get out of substantial military commitment to fighting global terrorism.
Likewise, in respect of the environment and energy, whatever the financial pressures, if we think that the earth’s climate is probably changing as a result of human activity, we need to set the global economy on a low carbon path to the future.
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