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A Tale of Two CountriesSANTIAGO – Barely two years ago, Brazil’s rapid economic growth and expanding middle class made it the darling of financial markets, whereas Mexico was better known for drug gangs and violence.
As a recent HSBC report points out, the reasons for China’s rapid accumulation of debt, which is concentrated in the corporate and local-government sectors, suggest that the situation is not nearly as dangerous as many are making it out to be.
Furthermore, after more than three decades of rapid income growth, China has accumulated wealth (or net assets) in almost all sectors.
The human capital for rapid economic growth is there (roughly 2,000 Palestinians graduate every year with technical skills, yet only 30% of them find a way to use such skills in a paying job), as is the will and the investment capital; but the necessary infrastructure is lacking.
Burma’s TurnYANGON – Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half-century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within.
The region needs to find its way back not only to rapid growth, but also to safer, more sustainable growth.
Diversification of production took a back seat in policy decisions as commodity prices continued to fuel rapid growth.
Indeed, a substantial portion of the region’s population – in which ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples are often disproportionately represented – remains marginalized and excluded from the benefits of Asia’s rapid economic growth.
Since the debt restructuring and currency devaluation, Argentina has had years of extraordinarily rapid GDP growth, with the annual rate averaging nearly 9% from 2003 to 2007.
In the decade since, the distribution of opioid drugs has expanded substantially, driving a rapid increase in addiction and death rates.
More recently, human activity has undergone what is being called the Great Acceleration: the rapid intensification of resource consumption and ecological degradation.
As we overdraw on our planet’s accounts, it is starting to levy penalties on the global economy, in the form of extreme weather events, accelerated melting of ice sheets, rapid biodiversity loss, and the vast bleaching of coral reefs.
With rapid growth in the local market, China could become a leading source of global demand, a hub of high-level factors of production, and a strategic center, with the Shanghai free-trade zone at its core.
At this level, China would finally have the domestic value chain that it needs to sustain competitiveness and rapid economic growth.
When credit expansion is rapid, it may be appropriate to increase banks’ capital requirements as a hedge against the heightened risk of a subsequent contraction.
In each country, rapid reform was seen as detrimental to national interests.
The ruling Law and Justice Party’s (PiS) rapid defanging of its own “memory law” comes as no surprise.
If history is any guide, tightening monetary policy in the near term will only lead to further economic turbulence, followed by a rapid retreat to low interest rates.
Rapid output growth without equally rapid capital-stock or employment growth must have reflected rapid productivity growth.
But, even if rapid productivity growth is possible under current circumstances, it cannot be taken for granted.
ISIS’s leaders would not be happy with the comparison, but their group’s rapid emergence on the map has drawn some lessons from Israel.
That is why, for example, so many keep assuming that a normal rapid recovery is just around the corner.
An economy running hot enough to create jobs at a rapid rate – what some, most recently Fed Chair Janet Yellen, have called a “high-pressure economy” – will eventually lead to higher real wages and incomes for workers.
The Fed and other central banks are balancing rapid growth not against equality, but against the dangers of future overheating and financial instability.
Much like Trump’s threats, this policy is intended to deter North Korea, but it is more likely to fuel a rapid escalation of conflict.
Nonetheless, economic insecurity – owing to the rapid pace and, at times, destructiveness of the global economy – evidently is driving much of the public's nostalgia for British sovereignty.
While rapid growth in developing countries has been an important factor in the rising commodity prices, much of this is beyond their control.
With more than ample domestic demand, considerably boosted by rapid expansion in government and health care, the US economy sustained growth and employment in the face of large increases in the labor force (27 million new workers since 1990), notwithstanding the substantial headwinds created by new labor-saving information technology.
And, of course, rapid growth in the advanced countries generally fueled an increase in world trade volumes to record highs.
But igniting and sustaining rapid growth requires something more: production-oriented policies that stimulate ongoing structural change and foster employment in new economic activities.
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