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Since the price spikes of the 1970’s, US oil consumption per dollar of GDP has fallen by half, which also reflects the general economic shift away from industrial manufacturing to less energy-intensive production.
Taken together, these appointments demonstrate the new Chinese leadership’s emphasis on pro-market reforms and a shift from heavy industry to greater reliance on consumption and services.
That shift is likely to mean a slower rate of GDP growth than the annual rate of nearly 10% that China achieved during the last three decades.
The new leadership will, of course, face serious obstacles as it tries to shift policy in these market-friendly directions.
China’s state-owned enterprises are powerful forces in the economy, with substantial political influence; they will resist the shift from heavy industry to services.
Qaddafi’s seizure of power in a coup d’etat 1969 marked a shift to an anti-Western stance.
This shift has spurred the Kingdom to announce a “crackdown” on individuals and groups that fund terror.
But if a shift across America’s racial divide is not truly revolutionary, then what is?
In their wake, a notable shift has emerged, with a new generation of politicians claiming to herald a fresh approach and profound changes in French policy towards Africa.
However, much work remains to be done to consolidate that shift.
The broad shift to bond financing is a welcome development.
Beyond the near-term bumps in the road, the shift to bond financing by companies is a positive development.
The average tenure of a G20 political leader has fallen to a record low of 3.7 years, compared to six years in 1946 – a shift that, no doubt, is contributing to a rise in short-term thinking by governments.
By contrast, his rivals, most notably Yulia Tymoshenko, emphasized a rapid shift toward NATO and the European Union.
But if the US has been unable to involve Pakistan in resolving the Afghanistan conflict, that failure simply reflects America’s refusal to give the Pakistanis what they wanted: a shift in the regional balance of power at the expense of India.
Returning the process to national capitals would shift the balance of power to domestic legislatures and national stakeholders.
But this shift does not only reflect the slowdown in trade growth.
Simply put, one cannot sustain current levels of consumption and entitlements without crowding out public-sector investment, unless one believes that the state’s borrowing power is unlimited, and that the intergenerational burden shift is unimportant.
One cause for this shift toward authoritarianism is that many countries no longer view the United States as a beacon of democracy and a model of stability and prosperity to be emulated.
But a simple shift of responsibility to the advanced countries by exempting developing countries from the mitigation process will not work.
Across the West, a general feeling of decline has taken hold, owing to the shift in global wealth and power toward Asia.
Worldwide, there is growing discontent with globalization, digitization, and free trade, accompanied by a slow shift toward protectionism.
This shift has been reflected in policy.
Its booming exports in the mid-2000s led US officials to threaten trade retaliation unless the Chinese authorities took steps to restrict exports, cause the renminbi to appreciate, and shift to “consumption-led growth.”
But a shift is occurring: global markets already are more important than national markets for small and medium-size countries, and they are approaching that status for large economies.
Western countries, and particularly the United States, had been waiting for decades to see such a shift in the Kingdom’s politics.
At a time of deepening inequality, the primary challenge France faces is to shift its focus from damage control to damage prevention.
First, the world has, for the moment at least, reached its resource limits, and we are seeing a big shift in relative prices as the global economy responds appropriately by making labor and capital cheap and oil and other resources expensive.
The result of this relative price shift is headline inflation.
At a time when multilateralism is under increasing strain, it is useful to understand the underlying shift in key weights and try to judge how much of what we are experiencing reflects structural shifts in these weights and how much is simply due to independent policy changes.
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