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Industrialization was the driving force of rapid growth in southern Europe during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and in East and Southeast Asia since the 1960’s.
Moreover labor shortages began to appear, and Chinese workers began to win rapid wage increases.
Populations that must rebuild from scratch after each new catastrophe miss out on opportunities for rapid development.
One reason for the rapid rise in benefits stems from how they are adjusted for inflation.
Moves by Brazil and South Africa in this direction are promising, while China is on the verge of rapid financial-market development, which could make the difference.
China is attempting to follow Japan and South Korea’s path of rapid economic catch-up.
And maintaining an only partly liberalized financial sector, which channels savings to investment at below-market rates, has made it easier to maintain the high investment essential to sustained rapid growth.
But they cease working well when sustaining growth requires behavioral and structural adaptation to rapid changes in comparative advantage and the value of various types of human capital.
Insecure land tenure acts as a disincentive for smallholder farmers to commit to productivity-enhancing investments; water extraction rates are depleting aquifers as a result of permissive policies; and food security remains out of reach for millions of people, despite rapid economic growth in urban areas.
Foreign capital can play a role in supporting rapid growth, but international experience shows that domestic savings is key to sustaining high investment rates.
The rapid aging of China’s population exacerbates the challenge.
But China’s rapid growth has been driven mostly by technology catch-up and investment.
The Japanese public may prefer to maintain its current lifestyle and cultural homogeneity, even though doing so is preventing more rapid economic growth.
On an international scale, it facilitated the rise of the Asian tigers and the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), produced rapid growth across Africa, and facilitated the boom in developed countries through 2007.
So far, just 40% of the $448 million that will be needed in the first two years for investments in early warning, rapid response, water, sanitation, and vaccines has been mobilized, and only 10% of the total has been pledged.
Harnessing Disruption for SustainabilityGENEVA – After decades of reluctance on the part of world leaders, a rapid, smooth, and purposeful transition toward sustainable development seems unlikely.
Moreover, with continuing rapid growth in developing countries, the global economy’s structure is far from static, and it seems clear that the pace of market adjustment is lagging that of structural change.
In some cases, this took the form of rapid growth in government; in others, like the US, a pattern of excessive, debt-fueled consumption underpinned a large shift in employment to (non-tradable) services and construction.
The region’s small countries understood that openness was the key to rapid economic growth and prosperity.
If policymakers go slow on raising rates to encourage faster economic recovery, they risk causing the mother of all asset bubbles, eventually leading to a bust, another massive financial crisis, and a rapid slide into recession.
Lin argues that China can achieve 8% annual growth for another two decades, owing to its enduring “latecomer advantage,” which, among other things, entails rapid productivity gains brought about by technological catch-up with the United States.
Most people believed that rapid growth would quickly be restored once again.
While many of the key building blocks of China’s transitional framework have fallen into place – especially rapid growth in services and accelerated urbanization – there can be no mistaking a new and important twist: China now appears to be changing from an adapter to a driver of globalization.
More rapid turnover might work for other companies, he conceded; but, again, his company was somehow exceptional.
The political right calls for more rapid deficit reduction by cutting spending.
A legal tradition vastly different from the West, and decades of Maoist rule before the Deng era, make rapid change in Chinese legal institutions impossible.
With low interest rates and a slow recovery in the developed countries, accompanied by high interest rates and rapid growth in emerging markets, the world’s investors flocked from the former to the latter – Brazil, Chile, South Korea, Taiwan, and others.
After all, the US economy has yet to regain its full strength, is too structurally impaired to sustain any rapid forward movement, and has not yet started to overcome the many distortive side effects of the extreme medicine that it received.
The new relationship with Russia needs careful management, and rapid extension of membership to former Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia could prove difficult.
When workers move from a poor to a rich economy, there is rapid adaptation to the economic mores of the new society.
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