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But CPI targeting instead tells the central bank to tighten policy in response to an increase in the world price of imported commodities – exactly the opposite of accommodating the adverse shift in the terms of trade.
Presently, diminishing Uyghur activism and decreasing political protests suggest a shift toward withdrawal.
The mix of Chinese policy tightening, however, needs to shift much more decisively toward higher interest rates.
The choice to save the banks from the financial consequences of their own errors indicates a shift in values away from belief in the wisdom of the market.
But will the downturn also produce a deeper shift in the values of consumers?
But our latest nuclear fears have broader implications, especially for energy supply and our desire to shift away from reliance on fossil fuels.
A New Blueprint for US-China RelationsNEW YORK – In the coming decades, nothing will matter more for global peace, prosperity, and governance than how the United States and China handle the ongoing shift in their relative power.
Instead, governments can – and should – shift subsidies to encourage the production of more climate-neutral, protein-rich crops, like pulses and other legumes.
Upon the shift in 2015 to a permit-trading scheme, a price ceiling will be set at A$20 above market price.
The first is the growing shift in the Middle East, and elsewhere, from rejection of Israel’s legitimacy to rejection of Zionism’s legitimacy.
To understand what is happening, consider Evergreen Solar, the third-largest maker of solar panels in the US, which announced in January that it would close its main American factory, lay off its 800 workers there within two months, and shift production to China.
The important thing is to shift norms and expectations.
We conjectured that even though random discoveries, weather events, and technologies might dramatically shift relative values for certain periods, the resulting price differentials would create incentives for innovators to concentrate more attention on goods whose prices had risen dramatically.
The shift might take many decades, but it also might come much faster as artificial intelligence fuels the next wave of innovation.
This shift is not unprecedented.
As a result, they will limit or delay purchases and shift at least some of their consumption to foreign-made products that the tariffs have now made relatively cheaper.
In Western countries, meanwhile, interpretations of human rights have evolved alongside a larger cultural shift toward individualism and secularism, prompting opposition to a broad set of religious practices.
Banning circumcision would represent a marked shift away from that tradition in the West.
I have called this shift towards the milder end of the NCD spectrum the “severity effect.”
Only when the importance of the task warrants the effort do we shift gear and deploy the System-II heavy artillery.
They should be working actively to engineer a just and smart shift to a future free of fossil fuels, not making that future harder and more expensive to achieve.
That agenda must include two issues of global monetary reform that remain unaddressed: coordinated global regulation of capital flows in the short term, and a long-term shift toward a new international monetary system based on a true global reserve currency (possibly based on the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights).
A sign of the shift in public opinion has been a campaign, supported by more than four million people so far, to petition Parliament to hold a second referendum.
The increasingly close relationship between China and the Maldives represents a significant shift from the past, when India was the country’s primary regional partner.
There are also concerns over excessive debt and related fears of a fragile banking system; worries about the ever-present property bubble collapsing; and, most important, the presumed lack of meaningful progress on economic rebalancing – the long-awaited shift from a lopsided export- and investment-led growth model to one driven by internal private consumption.
While that is not showing up in the composition of final demand (at least not yet), the shift from manufacturing and construction toward services is a far more meaningful indicator at this stage in the transformation.
Meanwhile, increased fiscal expenditure on social welfare could help reduce high household savings rates, supporting the necessary shift to a more consumption-driven economy.
If the Doha Round fails, trade liberalization would shift from the WTO to preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which are already spreading like an epidemic.
It is time to shift the cultural conversation about data sharing from what researchers might “lose” to what they stand to gain – beginning with credit.
Yet, to make the most of data sharing, donors should also shift their mindset and invest more in quality data collection and management during project implementation, and sustain funding for curation and continued analysis of datasets.
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