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Indeed, in the United States, lessons from the Katrina experience appear to have strengthened response capacity, as shown by the rapid and effective intervention following Hurricane Sandy.
Even rapid response is more effective if key networks and systems – particularly the electricity grid – are resilient.
Given the rising risk of conflict in Asia – owing to a toxic combination of rapid GDP growth, an arms race, historical resentments, rampant chauvinism, territorial disputes, and a lack of effective institutional arrangements for conflict resolution – Europe should welcome a stronger US presence in the region.
In particular, we understood that the rapid run-up of house prices, coupled with the extension of leverage, posed macroeconomic dangers.
Those who said that there would be no downturn, or that recovery would be rapid, or that the economy’s real problems were structural, or that supporting the economy would produce inflation (or high short-term interest rates), or that immediate fiscal austerity would be expansionary were wrong.
For these sectors, rapid investment-driven growth in the past decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector’s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real-estate speculation.
But the political reality is that China’s government favors rapid growth in the short run over the structural reforms needed to sustain long-term economic performance.
In economic terms, China has no choice: it must remove the structural obstacles that stand in the way of rapid growth over the next decade or two.
This conflict between the need for rapid response and the requirement for deliberation explains why the EU’s much-discussed “battlegroups” are unlikely ever to be deployed.
With low interest rates, price stability, a more competitive exchange rate, a lower tax burden, plentiful resources for investment, and the reduction of electricity tariffs, Brazil is strengthening its potential for more rapid expansion.
But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil-fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.
At a time when sluggish global growth and falling commodity prices demand rapid productivity growth, Latin America’s economies cannot afford to be hobbled in this way.
India was long known in the world for its rapid population growth, high fertility, high infant mortality, and risk of famine.
Mass illiteracy and high rates of infant mortality contribute to rapid population growth, by inducing families to have huge numbers of children to “beat the odds” in order to ensure that some children survive to adulthood.
Yar’Adua and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are struggling to stamp their authority on an unwieldy and restive country of 140 million people, and the government views rapid growth as a means to achieving that aim.
The most desirable outcome – rapid resolution that places the source of contagion on a sustainable growth path – appears improbable in Italy’s case.
They foresee a short war, the rapid collapse of the Baathist regime, and a new beginning for Iraq's people.
Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.
For example, when rapid investment growth in 2004 led to overheating, world markets were booming.
In 2004-2007, I considered that I might be wrong about a relatively rapid resolution to the world’s economic distress: as the late Rudi Dornbusch put it, unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances can sustain themselves longer than economists (with their touching faith in rational human decision making) believe is possible.
Finally, China’s extraordinarily rapid rise pushed the employment share of manufacturing down to 8.7%;NAFTA took it to 8.6%.
The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision-making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.
They will not, in the foreseeable future, operate on a scale that can foster a rapid transition away from fossil fuels or provide energy services to billions of new consumers.
Trump, Syria, and the Threat of Region-Wide WarBEIRUT – The die, it seems, is cast for a rapid end to the United States mission in Syria – and, with it, the chances of a peaceful and sustainable resolution to that country’s brutal seven-year civil war.
Is there something in their DNA that makes them prefer the status quo so much that, more often than not, they are taken aback by rapid changes, neither foreseeing them nor knowing how to respond once they begin?
Who saw that sudden and rapid transformation coming?
As long as this combination of factors lasts, the governments of Latin America can maintain fiscal discipline, despite higher spending, as rapid growth translates into greater revenues.
Aside from slowing growth, that reality includes severe environmental damage, one result of decades of rapid, coal-fueled industrialization.
The rise in inequality today is largely due to technological change, such as rapid advances in robotics and digital technology, and it has been aggravated by heightened awareness on the part of the poor.
China has chosen a high-risk path – ignoring human rights and violating UN sanctions – to secure the energy and other resources needed to sustain its economy’s rapid growth.
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