Relaxation
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The rapidly rising costs of environmental damage are restricting economic growth, making the
relaxation
of environmental protections a false economy.
Indeed, in its 2006 annual review of the US economy, the IMF was extraordinarily benign in its assessment of the risks posed by the
relaxation
of lending standards in the US mortgage market.
Its recently enacted 13th Five-Year Plan aims to dampen fear-driven precautionary saving through interest-rate liberalization, the introduction of deposit insurance, the loosening of the hukou residential permit system (which would improve benefit portability), and
relaxation
of the one-child family planning policy.
The removal by the US of some noneconomic sanctions designed to restrict official bilateral interaction is welcome, and an even greater
relaxation
in communications, through both official and unofficial channels, should be implemented.
In particular, the private sector – especially small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which are most often driven to the shadow banking sector – would benefit more from credit
relaxation
than from a cut in official interest rates.
That is, an increase in the willingness to lend tends to increase the value of the collateral, and also improves the borrowers’ performance, thereby encouraging a
relaxation
of credit criteria.
Europe has a real chance to conclude a bargain: member countries implement fiscal and structural reforms in exchange for short-run
relaxation
of fiscal constraints – not to increase liabilities, but to focus on growth-oriented investments to jump-start sustained recovery.
Eurobonds, viable in the longer term, are thus premature, because they imply a
relaxation
of conditionality, thereby weakening incentives to implement reforms.
Whatever form it takes, the message should be direct and transparent, and it should also target US corporations taking advantage of any
relaxation
of domestic environmental and emission standards.
Indeed, the influence of the US investment-banking industry’s lobbying efforts on the
relaxation
of prudential standards in financial regulation is widely recognized as a factor leading to the current crisis.
Today, China is the world’s largest economy (based on purchasing power parity) and the largest participant in world trade, and its government has been actively promoting renminbi internationalization, such as through the
relaxation
of foreign-exchange regulations.
But a combination of factors, including slowing economic growth and a gradual
relaxation
of restrictions on investing abroad, has unleashed a torrent of capital outflows.
Though the systematic screening and treatment of millions of people dramatically reduced disease transmission in the 1930’s, the
relaxation
of such efforts allowed HAT to reemerge in the 1950’s and 1960’s, reaching epidemic levels by early 1990’s.
The Germans, along with smaller creditor countries, are dead-set against any
relaxation
of austerity and are adamant that “structural reform" must remain a condition of further financing.
The only clearly positive effect of TV watching is that people feel relaxed while doing it, and many people are willing to exchange that
relaxation
for the more enjoyable and useful things they might be doing instead.
The rise of passive investors, such as Vanguard Asset Management, is facilitated by the same regulators who are encouraging the
relaxation
of listing standards for SOEs, as they seek to ensure lower management fees in the asset-management industry.
The European Commission’s recent proposals amount to a
relaxation
of its earlier hard-line stance, providing a catalogue of ways in which the fiscal rules can be made more flexible.
They will not get to discuss the protection of citizen's rights,
relaxation
of harsh media controls, the rights of peasants to migrate or take up jobs in the cities, or whether to tolerate workers who organize independent unions.
China’s recent
relaxation
of macroeconomic policy, despite ongoing market volatility, is an important step toward breaking unnecessary barriers to implementing the reforms needed to mitigate systemic risks.
The staff “saw” the
relaxation
of lending standards in the US mortgage market, but noted that “borrowers at risk of significant mortgage payment increases remained a small minority, concentrated mostly among higher-income households that were aware of the attendant risks.”
The European Council might also recommend that any
relaxation
of employment protection be accompanied by the establishment of a minimum wage – determined as an agreed proportion of the statutory wage for regular long-term employment.
In China, for example, the
relaxation
of migration controls in the 1980’s and the opening of the economy led to the spectacular growth of the country’s eastern cities.
Ironically, what the civilized protests of mainstream parties in peripheral Europe failed to achieve – a
relaxation
of the dogma of austerity – might come about as a result of the politics of brinkmanship proposed by the Greek radical left.
For Bolsonaro, the way forward is not only a
relaxation
of gun laws, but also the introduction of military-like moral codes and a purge of “leftist ideas” from schools.
In the end, while the Republican-controlled House of Representatives wanted a broad repeal, the Senate could be persuaded only to support relatively minor
relaxation
of the rules for small and medium-size banks.
More broadly, it should continue to reduce barriers to trade and investment by foreign firms in China, including by following through on the announced
relaxation
of restrictions on foreign financial firms operating in the country.
But this has proved difficult, with
relaxation
of tiao tiao often leading not just to rapid regional growth and improvements in local public services, but also to widening imbalances and a heightened risk of overheating, owing to pro-cyclical herding behavior, such as excessive fixed-asset investment.
Much of the backlash that followed the Trump administration’s proposed
relaxation
of vehicle emissions standards has centered on two aspects of the 500-page report on which it is based.
In many ways, this is not surprising: once politicians no longer face annual EU progress reports - and the threat of exclusion - fiscal
relaxation
becomes much less costly.
More recently, the
relaxation
of state aid rules, which favor Germany, has been particularly unfair to Italy, which was already the sick man of Europe and then the hardest hit by COVID-19.
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