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Long Live China’s BoomBEIJING – After three decades of 9.8% average annual GDP growth, China’s economic expansion has been slowing for 13 consecutive
quarters
– the first such extended period of deceleration since the “reform and opening up” policy was launched in 1979.
But can a couple of
quarters
of economic growth support claims of recovery?
After 70 years, the Bretton Woods institutions – the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank –appear creaky, with their very legitimacy being questioned in many
quarters.
Bankers can, of course, ignore their critics and the public, and use their money to lobby in the right
quarters
to maintain their privileges.
With a return to output growth, the recession – defined as two consecutive
quarters
of economic contraction – is officially over.
In fact, the US has not experienced three consecutive
quarters
of 3% growth in a decade.
The conservatives were lapsing into "the crusading spirit, aimed at the liberation of Eastern Europe, which prevailed in conservative
quarters
in the West during the Cold War," he said in 1983--a moment of heightened tension between the West and the USSR.
Gradually the Bank came to be perceived, at least in many quarters, as a partner in the joint quest for growth and poverty reduction, not an adversary attempting to promote a Western economic agenda or ideology.
The inventory adjustment that drove most of the GDP growth for a few
quarters
is complete, and tax policies that stole demand from the future (“cash for clunkers” all over Europe, etc.) have expired.
The pace of real GDP growth fell from 2.4% in 2010 to 2% in the next four quarters, and then to 1.7% in 2012.
They involved a minimum of five species, in perilous alignment: the bacterium itself, the reservoir host such as marmots or gerbils, the flea vector, the rodent species in close
quarters
with humans, and the human victims.
The Bank of Japan’s Moment of TruthTOKYO – The Japanese economy has enjoyed seven consecutive
quarters
of positive growth, with the average annual rate reaching 1.9%.
On defense and security matters, the EU's security doctrine provides a great opportunity to build on our common worries: terrorism and non-proliferation, but also the need to ensure sustainable development in all
quarters
of the world.
So it looks increasingly difficult for the UK’s central bank to promote economic growth, which has been stagnant for the two last
quarters.
The economy contracted by 6.8% year on year in 2014, and output has plunged by 15% in each of the two last
quarters.
Furthermore, the view that higher inflation targets (perhaps 4%) may be desirable (because they would provide central banks with more space to lower interest rates in the advent of a future recession) has gained ground in some academic and policy
quarters.
Just two months ago, in mid-June, when the Syrian crisis was the focus of international attention and the subject of heated policy debate, such a statement by a senior administration official would have drawn strong reactions from several
quarters.
But it is also striking that despite the weak economy – growth will barely average 1.5% during Rousseff’s first term, and the economy is now in a technical recession, having contracted in two consecutive
quarters
– Dilma and the PT managed to retain the support of Brazil’s tens of millions of poor and excluded citizens.
Although Islamic fundamentalism has support in certain quarters, most Asians believe that it is containable through dialogue, despite the radicalizing effects on the fringe of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other unfortunate US foreign-policy decisions in the region.
Hopes for continued recovery have now given way to two consecutive
quarters
of negative growth.
Instead, two successive
quarters
of negative growth have had a dispiriting psychological impact.
Some major shocks could come from unexpected
quarters.
Inventory adjustments, which boosted growth for a few quarters, will run their course.
At least two thirds, if not three quarters, of the inhabitants of this planet hope for peace, security, and sustainable development - and because of that for a negotiated solution to our global conflicts.
The reform proposals came from diverse quarters: the governor of the People’s Bank of China; a commission convened by the United Nations General Assembly on reform of the international monetary and financial system, headed by the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz; and the French Palais Royal Initiative, led by former IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus.
Fourth, private consumption growth in the last few
quarters
does not reflect growth in real wages (which are actually falling).
Finally, in 2016, Chinese economic growth began to stabilize again, with the annual rate reaching 6.7% for three
quarters
in a row.
In the first three
quarters
of 2017, fixed-asset investment grew at an average rate of just 2.19% year on year.
In the first three
quarters
of 2017, private consumption grew by 5.9% in real (inflation-adjusted) terms – down 0.5 percentage points from 2016.
Incoming orders in manufacturing, the most important indicator in the official statistics, fell more sharply in the first two
quarters
of 2008 than at any time since the beginning of 1993.
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