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There are several important items missing from the policy mix that cast a shadow over the realization of both full-scale productivity growth and a shift to more inclusive growth patterns.
The central bankers justify their concern about low inflation by arguing that a negative demand shock could shift their economies into a period of prolonged deflation, in which the overall price level declines year after year.
Libya’s newfound engagement with the US and the EU represents not only a major shift in its international policies and diplomatic posture, but also a major internal reorientation, because the country now wants to develop an economy that is not exclusively based on oil.
A shift in focus to economic development will save a vast number of lives and convert the unthinkably large economic costs of war into economic benefits through development.
But this will require a shift in the ECB’s attitude.
But the bad news is that the transition now being asked of China – to shift toward services without experiencing a significant decline in economy-wide productivity growth – is unprecedented in Asia.
Whereas Wen’s supporters remain adamant that he fundamentally supported a shift toward democracy and a market economy for China, his critics lambast him for failing to fulfill his promises of political and economic reform.
At the same time, the global financial crisis triggered a shift in the relative price of assets worldwide.
It will not be long before China undergoes an historic shift from net merchandise exporter to net capital exporter.
Parallel to this shift away from psychoanalysis, the diagnosis of schizophrenia has shrunk dramatically, and standard psychiatric practice in the US now incorporates a narrower definition of schizophrenia than is used in Europe.
A study of diagnoses from 1949-1969 at the London psychiatric hospital where I work suggests why: a major shift from diagnoses of anxiety to diagnoses of depression coincided with the introduction of the first antidepressant pill.
Third, the perhaps irrational but widely documented search for yield implies that many investors will shift their portfolios toward riskier assets, exposing the economy to greater financial instability.
But the current rulers, if reelected, may shift policies.
One already sees a shift in public opinion toward euro adoption in Denmark and Sweden.
China’s systemic importance with respect to emerging-market growth, its relative stability, and other emerging countries’ domestic policy responses suggest that the main effect of the Fed’s coming policy shift will be a new equilibrium with less distorted asset prices.
Now Obama wants to shift responsibility to an independent commission composed of Democrats and Republicans.
A seismic shift demands that we adapt to a new landscape, and a seismic economic shift is exactly what Japan has undergone in recent decades, driven by the forces of globalization and digitization.
For starters, national health-care spending across the OECD must shift from its almost exclusive focus on medical care and embrace new entrants that can deliver health improvements.
This new approach stressed three major components: a shift to services to boost job creation; accelerated urbanization to raise real wages; and a more robust social safety net to provide Chinese families with the security needed to channel their newfound income from fear-driven precautionary saving into discretionary consumption.
Notwithstanding the unfinished business of consumer-led rebalancing, China now appears to be embracing yet another shift in its core economic strategy – driven by a broad array of “supply-side initiatives” that range from capacity reduction and deleveraging to innovation and productivity.
But this shift in emphasis – in the 13th Five-Year Plan as well as in the debate and messaging at this year’s China Development Forum – appears to be an important signal.
I worry that it could indicate a premature shift away from the consumer-led model back to China’s comfort zone of a producer model that has long been more amenable to the industrial engineering of central planning.
But de-emphasizing that strategic commitment could call into question a crucial shift now required of China’s core economic identity.
This shift has so far gone largely unnoticed by governments, a reflection of just how disconnected they are from their own people.
In particular, Saudi Arabia has been forced to initiate a shift toward an economic model that emphasizes investment and productivity as the main drivers of economic growth.
But it did not shift the center of gravity of Russian civilization, which remained collective and slavophile, not individualistic and Western.
David Victor, an energy expert at the University of California, San Diego, estimates that the shift from coal to natural gas has reduced US emissions by 400-500 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 per year.
Most journalists, like national electorates, have little understanding of the significant shift in Europe’s political decision-making over the last 20 years.
While the rise in healthy life expectancy is a positive development, this demographic shift poses a serious threat to many economies, which are already losing vitality.
Such differences – and the FMLC Council lists many more – reflect a dangerous shift in the world’s approach to regulation.
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