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Multi-polarity promises capital mobility and exchange-rate flexibility between the poles, as well as the development of a liquid market for benchmark bonds in each
region.
These questions are important, because “fatalism” has become a major obstacle that must be overcome by anyone seriously interested in bringing peace to the
region.
According to the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), every dollar that flows into the
region
generates an outflow of $1.06.
Most of this hemorrhage is debt-fueled: approximately 80 cents on every dollar that flows into the
region
from foreign loans flows out again in the same year.
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are flooded with capital as a result of billions of dollars poured back into the
region
in the past two years by domestic investors.
The Saudi stock market index is up by 78% since the start of the year, hugely out-performing the main US and European indices - and this in a
region
plagued by conflict, nuclear tensions, terrorism, and acute political challenges.
These are the essential conditions for launching sustainable economic growth in the
region.
This threat, together with terrorist attacks in Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Morocco, has prompted the Bush administration to install military bases in the
region.
Obama’s Middle EastJERUSALEM – President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for the Middle East, the
region
where his predecessor’s policies shattered America’s standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from President Bush’s grand design to redress the region’s ills through “constructive chaos.”
The entire
region
is going through a dangerous process of “Somaliazation,” with an expanding chain of non-state agents, mostly radical Islamist groups, challenging the idea of the state almost everywhere.
The specter of a Middle East nuclear arms race, with Iran’s Sunni rivals in the
region
– Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others – redoubling their efforts to attain nuclear status, cannot be ruled out.
During his visit to the
region
last July, Obama vowed to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “starting from the minute I’m sworn into office.”
The possible negative environmental consequences of that pipeline are of serious concern to all the citizens of the Baltic
region
and should be given due attention.
Consider a recent candid statement by Israeli Major General Herzi Halevy (quoted to me by a journalist who attended the speech where Halevy made it): “Israel does not want to see the situation in Syria end with [ISIS] defeated, the superpowers gone from the region, and [Israel] left with a Hezbollah and Iran that have greater capabilities.”
In 1991, Wolfowitz told US General Wesley Clark:“But one thing we did learn [from the Persian Gulf War] is that we can use our military in the
region
– in the Middle East – and the Soviets won’t stop us.
Syria is part of the extensive proxy war between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia that plays out in the battlefields of Syria and Yemen and in bitter Shia-Sunni confrontations in Bahrain and other divided countries in the
region
(including Saudi Arabia itself).
The rest of Asia might be content to sit back and watch the spectacle of Japan’s myopic politics if Japan’s inability to work to help stabilize the
region
did not matter so much.
Asia is suffering from an acute financial panic, in which the once-euphoric international investors who poured money into Asia are now fleeing the
region
at a dramatic pace.
Since Asia’s banks borrowed short-term funds from abroad for long-term domestic investments, there are not enough short-term assets around to allow all investors to get their money out of Asia if all of the investors simultaneously decide to flee the region, as is now happening.
The Japanese Government, as the largest economy and major creditor in the region, can play a leadership role in fostering confidence and providing credit to the
region
so that the current panic does not turn into a collapse of economic activity.
Clearly, the financial markets hunger for more Japanese leadership in the
region
and less IMF-induced austerity.
Of course, this pattern could be disrupted, if, say, a war or major conflict in an oil-exporting
region
constrained supply enough to cause prices to spike beyond the shale shelf.
Despite escalating geopolitical tensions, most countries in the
region
have maintained their economic momentum.
In past decades, the
region
reaped a demographic dividend from its young, expanding workforce and strong growth policies.
For starters, although Asia is not the most aged
region
in the world today, it is aging remarkably fast.
In most other countries in the region, this transition took – or will take – less than 15 years.
This demographic trend has far-reaching implications for the
region.
We want to show that good governance and growth will help to eradicate poverty and the instability that has characterized our
region
for so long.
Whether other parent banks active in the
region
stand by their subsidiaries depends on how severe the crisis in Western Europe becomes.
While most parent banks in the
region
are likely to benefit from these measures, this does not necessarily translate into support for their foreign subsidiaries.
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