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Westerners used to pluralistic democracy may find it hard to understand what a potentially huge shift this will be in a country accustomed to military rule for over 50 years.
The US will continue to provide a large open market, even as China’s role in serving it will shift upward in value added and in global supply chains.
In particular, the shift of income from those who save less to those who save more implies uncertainty about the restoration of aggregate demand.
And yet this shift will be accompanied by very substantial global economic challenges and uncertainties, underscoring the importance of Sino-US cooperation.
Notably, the business sector is asked to take a more active role to reduce its carbon footprint, commit to 100% renewable energy and zero emissions, shift investments into renewable energy, adopt more sustainable business models, and assist in the divestment from fossil fuels.
This deficit is entirely of Bush’s own creation, having enacted – and now seeking to extend – tax cuts that are not cuts at all, because they merely shift the burden of fiscal consolidation onto future generations.
What is needed is a multifaceted approach that combines a sense of history with careful analysis of current forces such as the shift in the balance of global growth toward the emerging world.
Such forecasting also requires an understanding of how advanced economies are coming to grips with that shift, and how the international monetary system will adjust as a result.
The power to rally political support around specific issues might shift from UN organizations to technical bodies linked to various expert communities.
Chinese Cities’ Four ModernizationsWASHINGTON, DC – Among the most significant developments driving China’s economic growth and rising living standards is the shift from a rural, agricultural society to a modern, urban one.
And this shift resulted not so much because GM moved its plants, but because it lost market share to Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz.
The catalyst of Golden Dawn’s sudden rise is not Greece’s large population of illegal immigrants – their presence predates the rightward shift by many years – but rather the massive rise in poverty and unemployment over the last three years and, above all, growing popular anger with the political class as a whole.
Trichet somehow garbled the Council’s message in his press conference, making it sound as if the ECB wanted to shift to an easing bias instead of “wait and see” neutrality.
Economic relations with the West would not be diluted by this shift.
To deal with the refugee crisis, while putting the EU’s largely unused AAA borrowing capacity to better use, requires a paradigm shift.
These realities represent a power shift of a kind that we have not experienced in our lifetimes.
But a new grand coalition between Merkel and the Social Democrats could be sufficient to make this shift possible.
The exit of one or two of these “undisciplined” countries could be a requirement for the German public to agree to such a policy shift.
He and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) represent a tectonic shift in Turkish politics, one with parallels in other Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East.
This competitive dynamic, which surfaced only recently, represents a shift from a long history of working in tandem to export Islamist extremism.
That means a decisive shift from carbon-emitting energy sources like coal, oil, and gas, toward wind, solar, nuclear, and hydroelectric power, as well as the adoption of carbon capture and storage technologies when fossil fuels continue to be used.
Brazil's recent stabilization was based on its ingenious shift to a new currency.
Attitudes about male caregiving are beginning to shift in the US.
These initiatives are just part of a broader shift.
Obama’s Pacific PivotCAMBRIDGE – Asia’s return to the center of world affairs is the great power shift of the twenty-first century.
The shift away from a “Europe without borders,” instigated by images of refugees walking across internal frontiers, was fortified by the news that most of those who carried out last month’s Paris attacks came from Belgium, and that some may have entered the EU via the Balkans, posing as refugees.
After all, even if security threats remain concentrated in the same broad area, the most urgent challenges can shift considerably over time.
On the demand side, many economists endorse a shift from investment-led to consumption-driven growth.
Even more popular is the supply-side recommendation of a shift from extensive to intensive growth – that is, from a model based on capital accumulation to one propelled by gains in efficiency, measured by total factor productivity (TFP).
A consensus has gradually emerged around this idea, with calls for a shift toward intensive, efficiency-driven growth intensifying since China’s GDP growth began to slow in 2011.
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