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Policymakers now must figure out how to achieve this goal – no easy feat, especially given that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, steadily rising costs for conventional energy cannot be counted on to propel the necessary shift toward a low-carbon future.
But to do so requires a shift in focus from reducing inequality to delivering growth that benefits the poor and middle class as well.
Furthermore, investment in developing countries’ natural-resource base must be scaled up, buttressing a shift toward more environmentally sustainable output and economic growth.
Perhaps the focus on the disruptions caused by the global financial crisis is obscuring a natural shift in developed economies to a lower gear following years of pumped-up growth.
Placing emphasis on governance also has the apparent virtue of helping to shift the focus of reform toward inherently desirable objectives.
On the contrary, by discouraging trading in securities, it would encourage investors to shift their funds into bank accounts and certificates of deposit.
And, since companies cannot make executives pay out of their pockets for bad performance, the shift in focus ended up justifying an increase in pay.
The fact that inflation has increased in many Western countries, despite the severe recessions of recent years, could mean that financial markets have begun to account for this fundamental shift.
In recent decades, rising incomes have catalyzed a major shift in people’s eating habits, with meat, in particular, becoming an increasingly important feature of people’s diets.
But, in large parts of Asia, a similar shift has occurred in just one generation.
But even a partial shift in meat-consumption habits – with consumers choosing options like chicken and seafood, instead of beef – could have a far-reaching impact.
A shift of relative strategic influence and strength is discernible, especially given the rise of India and China.
Trump, with his clownish looks and showbiz resume, is probably the ultimate example of this shift.
China’s reforms will either support the economic shift, boosting sentiment and lifting growth forecasts, or they will fall short and disappoint, with attention most likely to be focused on the size and nature of state intervention in markets.
At some point, the political agenda will either shift toward real reform, or sentiment will shift substantially against the euro.
In mid-1960’s Great Britain, Nicholas Kaldor, the world-class Cambridge economist and an influential adviser to the Labour Party, raised an alarm over “deindustrialization.”His argument was that an ongoing shift of value added from manufacturing to services was harmful, because manufactures were technologically progressive, whereas services were not.
The case for a shift to manufacturing remains unproven, because it cannot be proved.
Trump’s Recipe for Middle East ChaosBERLIN – US President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this month to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement, and to shift toward a policy of renewed sanctions and confrontation, will make the future of the Middle East even more uncertain.
What is overlooked is the shift in fundamental energies and joys.
Yes, Europe needs a shift in economic policies to boost growth and wages now.
Some contend that Egypt will not be able to undertake this shift.
The NATO Global HubWASHINGTON, DC – What should an alliance do when its leading member and dominant pillar decides to shift its focus to the other side of the world?
They are finding themselves forced to shift their own rhetoric and attitude in order to dampen their defense of policies viewed as pro-American or US-inspired, and to stiffen their resistance to Washington's demands and desires.
At this year’s conference, the one big idea was European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s call to shift authority over foreign and defense policymaking in the European Union from the member states to the Commission.
Both are part of a broader effort to shift power from the European Council to the Commission – an effort that Juncker buttressed by recently appointing his Svengali, Martin Selmayr, as the Commission’s secretary-general, the body’s top civil-service job.
There is still time for a substantial shift in federal spending toward high-employment (but in all likelihood low-value) projects to reduce unemployment before the end of 2010 – if Congress acts quickly.
The recognition by governments and external donors of the need for more – and more efficient – funding, particularly to national statistical systems, will be integral to such a shift.
That move marks a shift in the character of the global financial crisis, away from concern with banking problems and toward a focus on the world’s dysfunctional exchange-rate system – or, rather, its current lack of one.
Second, there must be serious doubts about whether Asian and Middle Eastern governments will in fact want to shift more reserves into dollars, especially if this means converting the euros they have acquired since 2003 at a loss and far below their purchasing power parity.
With the US increasingly prone to using its currency as an instrument of diplomacy, even of warfare – a process known in Washington as “weaponizing the dollar" – China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, for example, may well be reluctant to shift even more of their wealth into US Treasury bonds.
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