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To ease the constraints on household income, China needs more
rapid
exchange-rate appreciation, liberalization of interest rates, and a much sharper increase in wage growth.
The legitimacy of their autocratic systems is almost entirely dependent on their success in delivering
rapid
economic growth.
In 2005, growth is estimated to have been about 4.3%, and a similar rate can be expected in 2006, marking a period of sustained
rapid
global growth unseen since the 1970’s.
The
rapid
Shiite rise has already turned into a sectarian civil war in Iraq and recently has threatened to generate the same outcome in Lebanon.
Add to that sluggish productivity growth, weak demand, and
rapid
population aging, and Japan’s situation was dire.
Despite these efforts – not to mention the boost provided by
rapid
GDP growth in China, Japan’s economy expanded by just 0.75% annually, on average, for the entire decade.
Naive extrapolation of
rapid
growth led many people to imagine an ever-brighter future for these economies – and, thanks to them, for the rest of the world as well.
But, for the BRICS, continued
rapid
progress may become more difficult.
Hence the wariness in Ukraine towards
rapid
NATO expansion.
There is every reason to believe that a nationalist reaction by the Russian electorate against a perceived humiliation would be the net effect of
rapid
expansion of NATO.
But London and Frankfurt would be reckless to bank on
rapid
growth in their renminbi transactions.
Where adaptation to ruthless international competition and
rapid
technological change calls for flexibility and individual responsibility, the dominant culture in France continues to be one of assistance and entitlement.
Riesman’s framework has particular resonance in the Arab world today, where rising literacy rates and
rapid
advances in communication technology have stirred a maelstrom of competing cultural narratives, with his three types competing to define the region’s future.
By contrast, India’s most important national security concerns – the unsettled border between the two countries, and Beijing’s ties with Pakistan, which often operates as a Chinese surrogate – are closely connected to China: Both factors are directly linked to China’s perceived threat to India’s Himalayan territory and its
rapid
development of strategic infrastructure in that region.
Uganda seems to be an example of a country that receives a significant amount of aid, and at the same time, contrary to the hypothesis that aids creates dependence, is making
rapid
economic progress.
Some poor countries -- those that adopt good economic policies and institutions -- enjoy more rapid, catch-up growth: because they are short of their potential, their per capita incomes can increase not only because of genuine innovations, but also because they utilize their economic potential better.
As oil prices rose from 2000 to 2008, Putin presided over a period of
rapid
GDP growth that put Russia on track to become the world’s fifth-largest economy.
And despite much talk about “Make in India,” one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s catchphrases, the country shows little indication of
rapid
industrialization.
Second,
rapid
structural change in these countries has come at the expense of mostly negative labor productivity growth within non-agricultural sectors.
This is not to downplay the significance of
rapid
productivity growth in agriculture, the archetypal traditional sector.
The contribution that the structural-change component can make is necessarily self-limiting if the modern sector does not experience
rapid
productivity growth on its own.
But the evidence suggests that the growth rates brought about recently by
rapid
structural change are exceptional and may not last.
Letting some of the air out of this housing bubble, before too much pressure builds up, will require improved management of China’s
rapid
urbanization – and not just in the four first-tier cities.
A longer-term solution will require the authorities to address the fact that demand for a limited supply of residential property is high and rising, owing to the
rapid
flow of often-young Chinese talent to cities that offer access to economic opportunities, not to mention better public infrastructure.
Foshan’s
rapid
GDP growth – among the fastest in China – was driven by the private sector, with appropriate local-government support, and therefore depended largely on self-financing, not debt.
I looked not just at how these countries had achieved
rapid
growth – including the central role played by an open global economy – but also at the opportunities and challenges this process of convergence would bring.
If consumption can be successfully and sustainably boosted, I believe that China’s development will enter a new era, one in which economic growth continues at a
rapid
pace, generates higher employment, increases social welfare, places less demand on natural resources, and, ultimately, is of a much higher quality thereby underpinning more balanced global growth.
Now, with the
rapid
spread of broadband, once-isolated villages benefit from online banking, transport services, and ICT-enabled agribusiness and health and education programs.
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 disrupted, but did not derail, this
rapid
growth, and emerging economies enjoyed an unusually crisis-free decade until early 2013.
This endogenous response to
rapid
productivity growth was a key factor contributing to the savings glut.
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