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Meanwhile, oil majors are keen to remind us that we will need to burn fossil fuels for many more years as we gradually shift to a new energy economy.
To be sure, such a shift would take time – time that, depending on how long Trump remains in office, parties may not have.
If successful, the Shanghai market could trigger a shift of payments for other traded commodities as well – all at the dollar’s expense.
John Bowen’s recent book Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves documents this shift.
Liberal democracies are not likely to shift entirely to such a political system.
A second-term shift toward institutional multilateralism would embrace such action.
For starters, the same forces that led to an upward shift in the global savings curve will soon enough begin operating in the other direction.
So we must redouble our efforts to shift our economies to a post-carbon world, while still allowing the billions of people without adequate food, water, and education to improve their lives.
This shift may make sense politically, but it is abysmal economics.
An article in The Far Eastern Economic Review proclaims that “Wall Street’s crack-up presages a global tectonic shift: the beginning of the decline of American power.”
But there are steps that can and must be taken to help bring about the needed shift.
The second step would be to shift the corporate tax base from profits reported to have been earned in a country to sales made and wages paid in that country.
As Zucman points out, a corporation can move its legal headquarters and use mechanisms like transfer pricing to shift its tax burden, but moving its employees across national borders is more difficult, and it cannot move its customers.
And that will require a fundamental shift in mindset, from one of competition to one that emphasizes cooperation.
Shell's Corrupt Shell Game in NigeriaUnder fire from shareholders, and facing investigations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands for misrepresenting its oil reserves, Royal Dutch/Shell is trying to shift the blame to Nigeria.
The orthodox agriculture-led growth strategy of the 1960’s, the favored antidote to five decades of a “happy peasant” aid doctrine, must be replaced with an agribusiness development strategy whereby policymakers, donors, and entrepreneurs target the entire value chain to support a shift from bulk products to value-added, agro-industrial manufactured products.
By 2030, more than 50% of Africa’s 1.4 billion inhabitants are expected to live in cities.Urbanization brings with it opportunity, as consumer demand will most likely shift towards higher-value processed foods, including fruit, vegetables, vegetable oils, fish, and dairy products.
It is vitally important that existing projects, as well as new ones, benefit from any policy shift.
A sure sign of a shift in mentality is the growing recognition by financial institutions that loans and investments may be overexposed to the risks of climate change.
But I am hoping that widespread frustration will leverage the group’s ability to to encourage a genuine shift towards a new approach.
That provides a further reason for American investors to shift part of their portfolios from dollars to other currencies that are not likely to experience rising inflation.
Trump’s suspicion of multilateral institutions – and his unwillingness to absorb the costs of persuasion, side payments, and organization that centralized leadership demands – makes that shift all the more pressing.
And American voters, by a wide margin, favor a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
There is more: state and local budget-cutting has slowed America’s pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country’s long-term growth trajectory.
Even if successful in the short run, the huge shift toward government spending will almost certainly lead to significantly slower growth rates a few years down the road.
So a shift to greater domestic consumption was inevitable anyway.
Unfortunately, the response to populist gains so far has been similar to the beggar-thy-neighbor response to protectionism in the 1930s, with each country trying to shift the problem on to others until it comes back to bite everyone.
It is perhaps especially in Obama’s domestic policy – the shift to a more social-democratic tax system and universal health care – that one can best see the new president’s ideological drive.
Accelerating the shift towards large-scale, highly mechanized forms of agriculture will not solve the problem.
Against this background of rising tax rates and a shift in the tax burden to those with the highest income levels, it would not be surprising if Congress reduced the top tax rates and broadened the tax base in a revenue-neutral way.
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