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China also managed to convince three nations to shift loyalty away from Taipei's meager diplomatic corps during President Chen's three years in office.
Because their preferences and circumstances don’t in fact shift from day to day, and because they do try to get the best bargain when they shop around, their behavior will exhibit a high degree of regularity.
According to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, this shift is so profound that it amounts to the beginning of a new epoch: the Anthropocene.
Otherwise, we will see the shift toward an unruly world, one shaped by passion and power grabs, gain momentum.
The current shift toward green finance in developing countries can have a significant international impact.
It turns out there that is extensive evidence that a sustained shift in share prices is followed by a gradual change in unemployment.
If my thesis is right – the root cause of big booms in capitalist economies over recent decades (as well as during the pre-WWI decades) is a structural shift in expected future profitability – what does it mean for the choice of an economic system and for economic stabilisation?
Now a cultural shift appears underway in several of those economies, with more possibly to come.
Thanks to the globalization of capital and knowledge, countries were able to shift resources to more productive and higher-paying sectors.
As Hobsbawm predicted, skyrocketing income inequality has emerged as a major cause of rising nationalism, anti-globalization sentiment, and even the shift toward authoritarianism.
If, however, the slightest doubt about the OMT’s effectiveness arises, the expectation game will shift into reverse, and both countries’ bonds will quickly come under attack.
Perhaps America, with its Asian allies, could make some modest shift in their approach to China’s illegal pursuit of territorial claims in the South and East China Seas.
Fortunately, they were not beaten or buried alive for not showing up for their shift, as has happened to others.
So, what are the prospects for such a shift?
Not too long ago, many pundits doubted that China could make the shift from an economy dominated by labor-intensive manufacturing, exports, infrastructure investment, and heavy industry to a service economy underpinned by domestic demand.
The final reason for Keynesianism’s fall from grace was the rightward ideological shift that began with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan.
The shift was due less to rejection of Keynesian policy than to hostility toward the enlarged state that emerged after World War II.
But the shift in national mood in Britain and France is undeniable, and it will play an increasingly important role in defining the politics of Europe.
But the shift of global power is more complicated than the decline of the North Atlantic (EU and US) and the rise of the emerging economies, especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
The shift to such a multipolar world has the advantage that no single country or small bloc can dominate the others.
So far, the biggest winners from this shift have been educated and skilled professionals in the advanced economies.
While the debate about China’s near-term outlook should hardly be trivialized, the far bigger story is its economy’s solid progress on the road to rebalancing – namely, a structural shift away from manufacturing and construction activity toward services.
So, despite all the handwringing over a Chinese crash, the rapid shift toward a services-based economy is tempering downside pressures in the old manufacturing-based economy.
Caught in the transition from China’s tightly controlled, state-directed model, the government seems to be waffling – for example, by stressing a decisive shift to markets, only to intervene aggressively when equity prices plummet.
But a shift toward policies to promote growth, supported by the easing of deficit targets and the issuance of Eurobonds, is essential to bring Europe back from the brink of sustained recession, to stabilize Europe’s financial markets, and to prevent another significant disruption to global capital markets.
The cycle will continue, though other factors – such as the steadily declining costs of renewable energy and the shift toward less energy-intensive production processes – mean that it will probably spin within a lower range.
An agreement would enable Colombia – an important regional ally of the United States – to shift its attention and resources to economic and social development.
By repeating the altered comments, it was hoped, mass opinion would shift in favor of the war.
When this optimistic shift goes too far, asset valuations rise exponentially and the bull market reaches a dangerous climax.
This shift undoubtedly carries risks, but ultimately they are worth taking in the course of adapting governance for continued economic development.
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