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The 2008 financial crisis, which destroyed the mystique of Western economic prowess, led to a marked a shift in China’s global strategy.
For example, whereas the Islamists had essentially focused on political themes, highlighting participation, inclusiveness, and democratic reforms, the recent election campaigns witnessed a rhetorical shift to economic aspirations.
While the US economy is more resilient and agile than its developed counterparts, it is not yet robust enough to be able to adjust smoothly to a significant shift in external demand to other countries.
There is also the risk that, given the role of the ECB and the Bank of Japan in shaping their currencies’ performance, such a shift could be characterized as a “currency war” in the US Congress, prompting a retaliatory policy response.
To be sure, this risk was more acute when a larger number of emerging-economy currencies were pegged to the US dollar, which meant that a significant shift in the dollar’s value would weaken other countries’ balance-of-payments position and erode their international reserves, thereby undermining their creditworthiness.
Instead, it will shift demand towards US producers, much as direct foreign-exchange intervention would.
India’s recent torpor has underpinned a remarkable shift in global opinion.
Given all of the president’s efforts to attach his name to the current economy, it will not be easy for him to shift the blame to the Fed, Democrats, or anyone else.
For example, helping the world’s poorest people shift away from traditional fuels such as firewood, charcoal, and animal dung would go a long way toward reducing deaths and illnesses from air pollution, especially among women and children.
Gradually, effective military cooperation between the US and Europe will shift from being unnecessary and unwelcome, to being impossible.
But, to implement this shift, governments must ensure that all people have guaranteed access to land and potable water, and they need to create political frameworks to promote ecologically and socially just agricultural models – which, by definition, excludes industrial agriculture.
History suggests that a shift in global currency dominance is likely to occur gradually.
Today, the world needs a similar paradigm shift.
In order to shift firms’ emphasis from minimizing initial costs to maximizing total value, while ensuring the protection of people’s health and well-being, governments should change their tendering processes by implementing requirements for circularity, thereby helping to drive demand for new solutions.
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one.
So employment protection reform should involve a shift from a payroll tax to a layoff tax, accompanied by a reduction in the role of judges.
How complicated would it be to shift from a payroll tax to a layoff tax?
This shift in skill demand is fueling frustration.
Although the future geopolitical behavior of the rising new powers – Brazil, China, and India – remains uncertain, this shift may nonetheless provide an opportunity for the Mediterranean.
Any threat to the canal’s normal operations would shift the Far East-Europe route to the southern tip of Africa, marginalizing the Mediterranean (and sending costs soaring).
There has also been another significant shift in Asian attitudes.
This would squarely shift most of the adjustment burden onto structural funds, a sure harbinger of bitter rows between old recipients and new entrants.
Once “presumed innocent,” we are now, in the sinister words of former UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd, “unconvicted persons” – people who have not been found guilty of a crime, yet.This shift has not gone unchallenged.
This shift has not gone unchallenged.
China’s market-oriented shift will be reinforced by the commitments that its leaders made to the International Monetary Fund when the renminbi was added to the basket of currencies that determine the value of the Fund’s unit of account, Special Drawing Rights.
An eight-hour shift becomes an 11-hour shift for which net pay is only six hours.
The very name – the first machine age was the Industrial Revolution – suggests an epochal shift.
Monetary policy should never have been expected to shift economies to a sustainably higher growth trajectory by itself.
The shift to a high sovereign-debt-yield equilibrium would make it impossible to achieve fiscal balance.
This reflects several factors, including rapid urbanization, sustained investment in skills and infrastructure, and a shift from agriculture to industries such as automotive components, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, financial, and IT-enabled services.
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