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Contrary to the prevailing wisdom nowadays, some degree of Keynesian demand management in the transition to a more sustainable growth pattern is not in conflict with restoring fiscal balance over a sensible time period.
How could it have been otherwise when IMF policies led to interest rates of 10%, 20% or higher – rates at which job creation would be stymied under the best of business environments, let alone those prevailing in developing countries.
No longer can we assume – as prevailing economic thinking has – that resources are endless.
Smooth convergence of risk premiums for inflation, exchange rates, and, perhaps most importantly, debt default with those prevailing in the eurozone are crucial for alleviating possible shocks to the financial system.
On purely technical grounds, euroization will push the inflation risk premium--the difference between the average short-term interest rate and the inflation rate--to the level prevailing in the eurozone, implying lower real interest rates.
To help finance such programs, the multilateral development banks – such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the African Development Bank – should raise vastly more long-term debt from the capital markets at the prevailing low interest rates.
By renouncing simplicity, it also repudiates today’s prevailing confusion of information with literature, of facts with creativity, and best-selling products with true works of art.
The prevailing view when the euro was established was that all that was required was fiscal discipline – no country’s fiscal deficit or public debt, relative to GDP, should be too large.
The social-insurance systems in Europe, as in the United States, Japan, and elsewhere, were designed under vastly different economic and demographic circumstances – more rapid economic growth, rising populations, and lower life expectancy – from those prevailing today.
With several years to adjust, we would expect a powerful supply-side response to higher commodity prices now prevailing all over the world.
But the extent of intervention they condone differs, reflecting their different views concerning how dysfunctional the prevailing approach to supervision and prudential regulation is.
A new Nature Climate Change study shows that the prevailing climate models produced estimates that overshot the temperature rise over the last 15 years by more than 300%.
There is a conceptual barrier to understanding the problems that officials might face in regulating crowdfunding, owing to the failure of prevailing economic models to account for the manipulative and devious aspects of human behavior.
Instead, consolidation of authoritarian regimes appears to be the prevailing trend.
Yet reform is precisely what is needed to address these trends, which reflect fundamental problems with today’s prevailing growth patterns.
Specifically, world leaders must reassess prevailing food-production processes, which often put considerable stress on natural resources by exhausting freshwater supplies, encroaching on forests, degrading soils, depleting wild fish stocks, and reducing biodiversity.
The prevailing consensus is not to regard China as a threat.
The question is, can the French map out a way forward, dispel the prevailing gloom, and rebuild prosperity?
In soccer, that does seem to be the prevailing ethic.
"We must keep this sensitive subject out of the campaign" seemed to be the prevailing attitude, as if the period of heightened political awareness that elections provide should not be used to debate serious controversies.
In the US, board membership for workers’ representatives, strong unions, and government regulation of private-sector training are not part of the prevailing institutional formula.
In an era in which transparency and disclosure are the prevailing norm in most aspects of European governance, the politics of fiscal policy still look like conference diplomacy, circa 1815.
Abe knows that he must challenge today’s prevailing narrative that Asia’s economic future belongs to China.
So the future in Asia now appears to belong to China, whose economic growth supports that of neighboring countries – and whose mercantilism is prevailing in the region.
This was almost completely unexpected, as the prevailing view was that financial markets are self-correcting.
These initiatives have been presented as complements to the prevailing Bretton Woods system, but it is easy to see how they could also form the foundation for an alternative global-governance framework at some point in the future.
As a result, Glimcher is skeptical of prevailing economic theory, and is seeking a physical basis for it in the brain.
But the problem with the metaphor is that it implies a degree of American control that is unrealistic, and reinforces the prevailing strong temptations towards unilateralism in both the US Congress and parts of the Bush administration.
Nobody should be misled by the relative calm now prevailing in Kosovo.
Both men are likely to support the prevailing global double standard, which allows rich countries to use fiscal expansion in the face of recession, while forcing poor countries into greater austerity.
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