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The contribution that inflation targeting makes to macroeconomic stability is difficult to discern for a simple reason: it is impossible to know what would happen if a country’s central bank pursued the opposite course.
But central banks have pursued multiple objectives simultaneously, without bringing about bad outcomes or destroying their own credibility.
Historically, few governments have pursued this type of sequencing, much less with such fervor; indeed, most governments have hesitated, especially when it comes to full currency liberalization.
Economic expansion was interrupted in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but the cause was the macroeconomic crises triggered by the success of the OPEC cartel and the ensuing deflationary policies pursued by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
The chasm separating these groups from the agenda pursued by American and EU policymakers is growing, destabilizing the world economy.
It has also pursued economic modernization through massive infrastructure investment, including bridges, airports, roads, energy, and telecoms.
Since then, China has aggressively pursued a fast-growth, export, and investment heavy model of economic development.
The EU has never pursued a common energy policy with the vigor that it requires; yet its impact would be transformative.
Equally interesting, China is attempting to move away from the export-led growth strategy that it and other East Asian countries have pursued.
The vested interests that the Alliance members – Austria, Prussia, and Russia – had in the survival of their domestic institutions led each to seek to avoid conflicts that, in the past, they would have pursued as a matter of course.
But deflation is painful and cannot realistically be pursued for political reasons.
Unfortunately, the WHO’s leadership, like much of the West, has not pursued this course of action, because it has been distracted by an ideological obsession with drug prices.
But when America’s Fed pursued tight money between 1980-85, dollar nominal interest rates averaged 11.7% and export-price inflation was a negative 7.0%, resulting in a 17.9% positive real interest rate.
The Western powers in Germany, on the other hand, pursued, after a short period of non-fraternisation, a policy of controlled empowerment.
The country’s belligerent eastern neighbor has annexed Crimea, sponsored rebels in eastern Ukraine, pursued a trade war, intermittently cut off its supply of natural gas, and is threatening financial attack.
Finally, every legal avenue to holding Russia to account must be pursued.
The party pursued a scientific approach to elections, relied on expensive polling by foreign experts, and offered a clear agenda and strong leadership.
This would be unnecessary if Hong Kong adopted a monetary policy aimed at stabilizing a broad price index like the kind of policy pursued in the US, the euro zone, and most of the world.
But the benefits of markets can and should be pursued by other means.
Achieving this goal requires reforms with a different focus from those pursued so far.
While other countries which pursued radical reform, such as Poland, are now advancing smartly in their political transition, reform of Russia’s political system has barely nudged forward.
This remarkable economic transformation has been presented as proof of successful pro-growth policies pursued in previous decades.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has pursued extreme and morally unconscionable anti-immigration policies, such as the recently reversed policy of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border with Mexico.
Similarly, public-sector wage cuts and caps – currently being pursued by 75 developing countries – threaten to undermine service delivery to citizens, particularly at the local level in poor rural areas, where a single teacher or nurse can determine whether a child receives an education or health care.
Too often in politically connected cases, suspicions and charges of wrongdoing are not pursued to an unambiguous conclusion.
A similar effort is needed for Ukraine today, and that effort should not be set aside for reasons of political expedience, or, for that matter, pursued for reasons of simple economic self-interest.
Countries in this region have pursued substantial reforms that have boosted economic growth and laid the foundations for strong financial returns in the longer term.
Both administrations have pursued some pragmatic policies.
The danger is that 70 years was just long enough for Europeans to begin to forget why they pursued integration in the first place.
Instead, the US has pursued a neutral course, which it hopes will enable it to avoid being dragged into a military confrontation over countries’ conflicting territorial claims.
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