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Urbanization will be critical to facilitate this shift, not least by enabling economies of scale.
As a result of this policy shift – and the recent killing of a South Korean tourist in North Korea’s Kumgang Mountains – official dialogue between North and South has stopped for the past several months.
That absence of accountability, in turn, has contributed to the vertiginous rise in senior executives’ compensation and, in financial firms, to a shift away from shareholder returns and towards large payouts to insiders.
The factors underlying this shift merit attention, for many of them are likely to bring the two countries even closer.
Perhaps this steepening of the location gradient could be delayed for a decade if we were willing to shift to denser residential patterns.
This shift will require a big increase in local purchasing power – and, therefore, an enormous transfer of wealth from large domestic companies to Chinese households.
China’s ideological incompatibility with the US thus is making the shift in their relative power difficult to achieve peacefully.
Because they occur very often, winning coalitions shift over time and from issue to issue, which means that no single vote leaves deep cleavages in the electorate.
Accelerating this shift is the replacement of interstate war by armed conflict involving non-state actors such as insurgent groups, terrorist networks, militias, and criminal organizations.
In France, for example, Macron’s party could absorb the center-right Les Republicains, or it could shift further to the left, with a social solidarity program to accompany the liberal market measures it has already taken.
In this context, the authorities’ effort to accelerate the shift of China’s growth model to one that is more innovative, inclusive, efficient, and sustainable represents the only feasible way forward.
This shift will naturally bring about a decline in demand for energy-intensive raw materials like iron, steel, and cement; at the same time, it will better equip China for the next stages of its development.
If the EU does not shift its approach, it risks becoming a non-consensual community in which only some members are happy – and others want out.
Moreover, the economy is undergoing an ongoing technological shift stemming from digitization and globalization.
Central bankers, I believe, are underestimating the impact of this structural shift.
Developed countries should invest in affordable child care, early childhood education, and parental leave; shift from family to individual taxes; and provide more generous tax credits, benefits, and protections for low-wage and part-time workers.
But, beyond personalities and political calculus, what we are witnessing is a fundamental shift in the international system.
It is a shift that raises a major question: if those who are willing to act prove incapable of doing so “successfully,” what happens to global stability unless those who are capable are also willing to step in?
A major power shift in favor of “society” has taken place.
This shift in focus could radically change monetary policy, but for better or worse?
But times have changed, and monetary policy will, of course, shift accordingly.
The Fed’s chairman at the time, Ben Bernanke, reasoned that unconventional monetary policy would drive down long-term rates, inducing investors to shift from high-quality bonds to equities and other risky securities.
Of course, a government can also close a budget gap by raising taxes, but any sudden shift can significantly magnify the distortions that taxes cause.
It still has one of the lowest rates of public and private investment among OECD countries, and will be hit harder than most by a dramatic demographic shift over the next decade.
It was a small step from there to assuming that extending capitalism to the post-Soviet world would continue to shift the balance of power in the West’s direction.
As US security interests shift to the Pacific, Americans now rely on increasingly vulnerable forward land bases and carrier fleets with tactical aircraft that have a combat radius of 300-500 miles (482-805 kilometers).
The House Republicans and the Trump administration have both proposed halving that rate, which would cause capital to shift to corporate investment from real estate, unincorporated businesses, and foreign holdings.
What happens when companies shift from borrowing to finance an equipment purchase to leasing that equipment?
That is a huge shift, happening at an unprecedented speed.
China’s progress has been mixed, but the endgame is no longer in doubt, underscored by a shift from surplus saving to saving absorption.
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