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The prevailing belief in a reliable tendency to return to some normal degree of inclusion has little ground to stand on.
Instead of reassessing the prevailing economic-policy approach, international development institutions took aim at the easy targets: developing-country governments.
On the eve of the Great Recession of 2008-2009, exports had soared to a record 44% of combined GDP for Asia’s emerging markets – fully ten percentage points higher than the export share prevailing during Asia’s own crisis in 1997-1998.
The prevailing explanation for health inequalities is rooted in the social determinants of health – that is, the environments in which people work and live.
For example, interventions aimed at changing individual behavior are far less challenging to prevailing power structures than those that demand extensive social investment or revitalization of the entire system.
This will require strengthening the rule of law and ending the prevailing culture of impunity.
Given the prevailing low level of interest rates, moreover, it is all but certain, come another crisis, that unconventional policies will be back.
Unlike the mood at Davos a few years ago, when many participants mistook an economic recession for long-term American decline, the prevailing view this year was that the US economy has regained much of its underlying strength.
What makes these economies function is not a policeman protecting every shop window, but rather people’s trust, fairness, and fellow-feeling to honor promises and obey the prevailing rules.
The prevailing economic ideology is also shifting, from a redistributive, regulatory corporatism to something like the old interventionist corporatism.
Moreover, these new financing mechanisms “have not been crisis tested,” according to the report, “are subject to conditions prevailing in providing countries,” and “do not cover several systemically significant” economies.
The poor international environment hit Brazil’s economy mainly via foreign trade, aggressive competition in the Brazilian market, and echoes of the negative expectations prevailing in advanced countries.
Only through such sustained growth can per capita income approach the levels prevailing in the developed world.
They then decide what to buy or how much to save, given prevailing prices, interest rates, and their own income.
This leads to a second problem with the prevailing paradigm, which is that it puts abstract economic indicators before actual people.
For Poles, the prevailing narrative of the Holocaust is exceedingly frustrating.
Many politicians try to stay as close to prevailing majority views as possible.
This failure of government was abetted by the complicit myopia prevailing at the extremes of the political spectrum.
But the other signs of disconnection also create a highly unstable condition in which one can never tell how representative the prevailing views are.
The government has already issued a statement that Obama’s visit will not yield progress on the TPP, indicative of the prevailing lack of confidence in the measure.
The OECD purchasing-power statistics paint a similar picture, with Greece needing to depreciate by 39% and Portugal by 32% just to reach the price level prevailing in Turkey.
If the prevailing sentiment wasn’t clear to the president before the July 16 plebiscite, it was after: more than seven million people participated, with an astonishing 98% rejecting the proposal – a clear repudiation of Maduro’s government.
Rather, they are important because they provide more political choices for citizens, especially those frustrated with prevailing duopolies – political systems dominated by two long-established parties offering nearly identical policy prescriptions.
Therefore, the currently prevailing wage-replacement benefit system, which is applied when recipients do not work, should be replaced with a system offering wage supplements and community work.
The chaos now prevailing on the US political scene reflects this.
But this time it is the prevailing economic model that must be transformed.
China recognizes that America is in great difficulty (indeed, it recognizes this more clearly than the US itself), and that, given the poisonous political atmosphere prevailing in Washington, there will be no easy return to good government, economic stability, and strong growth.
The ability to convert money into goods at prevailing prices is fundamental for any reserve currency, which is why other types of money, like the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights, are not likely to displace the dollar.
In Donilon’s words, “by elevating this dynamic region to one of our top strategic priorities, Obama is showing his determination not to let our ship of state be pushed off course by prevailing crises.”
While not everyone agrees on exactly what the new growth model should look like, proposals do not differ drastically, given the prevailing consensus that the current model rests on an unsustainable foundation.
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