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I have argued for several years that India should emphasize investment spending, so I welcome this shift.
They have also clearly understood the folly of violent resistance, and have made a dramatic shift to nonviolent action – with the acceptance (and possibly encouragement) of the international community – in order to maintain pressure on the occupiers.
The PLO’s main faction, Fatah, made this shift at their sixth congress, held in Bethlehem last winter after a 20-year hiatus.
In France, the most recent example of this shift toward greater transparency relates to Brigitte Macron.
The shift reflects the mandate that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sought and gained.
Yet the notion has taken root that Macron’s win shows a fundamental shift in French politics.
The “harmonious society” concept, which can be traced to Confucius, has become a hallmark of Hu Jintao’s socioeconomic vision, which calls for a fundamental shift in China’s policy focus from economic growth to social fairness and environmental protection.
Politicians clearly do not like this shift in power toward the judiciary.
They include a shift in economic power from the West to the East, the weakening of formal institutions, and widespread disaffection in Western democracies.
Looking ahead, the Bank will have to shift from lending to governments towards financing the provision of global public goods.
Today, indicators of this global slowdown are to be found everywhere – from underwhelming retail and trade data to unanticipated policy responses, including China’s surprise currency devaluation (which coincides with its leaders’ commitment to a long-term shift toward a more market-based exchange-rate regime).
When members of society who believed they were on the winning side of history come to fear that they are among the losers, the result is a radical shift in politics.
But, until new narratives replace the old ones, the epochal shift in politics will simply bring forth other leaders who play on the same anger and fears.
This structural shift has enormous practical significance.
We also need strategies to decrease urban heat stress, including a shift toward polycentric urban configurations, with economies and societies built around multiple regional hubs, rather than concentrated around a single city, and natural assets maintained through eco-corridors and connected green spaces.
Politically, reduced reliance on foreign oil may allow the US to concentrate on its foreign-policy shift toward Asia.
Uganda’s importers, seeing the shift, have invested in new mills in the country, expanding employment and creating competition for farmers’ output, improving prices.
Large deficits shift the bill for today’s consumption to future generations and can crowd out private investment, thereby slowing the improvement of living standards.
Likewise, the emphasis on markets’ “decisive role” in upgrading China’s industrial structure and eliminating excess capacity is compatible with the Third Plenum’s goal of achieving a market-based shift to a consumer society.
For me, this shift could not hit closer to home.
But this shift is proving difficult, as structural factors cause China’s long-term potential growth rate to fall; the economy now seems set to fall below even that lower rate this year.
Specifically, it should shift the intermediate target of monetary policy from expanding the money supply to lowering the benchmark interest rate.
The good news is that both the private and public sectors – motivated by soaring demand for food, especially in Africa’s rapidly growing cities, and rising global food prices – seem ready to propel this shift.
As a professional economist, maybe twice a decade I form a view that some major market is out of line…my response is to write about it, but to shift only about 5% of my portfolio.
These policies encourage corporations to shift output to developing countries, which gain modern production capacity.
The shale-energy revolution in the US is perhaps the best-known example of this shift, but it is not the only one.
That represents a genuinely remarkable shift.
Though lower-value-added jobs in sectors like manufacturing shift to China, where labor costs are lower, jobs in higher-value-added sectors – such as technology, finance, media, and retail – flourish.
When events shift, it becomes obsolete.
Despite its strong scientific tradition, figures for Central Europe are even worse, and the cost of EU integration is likely to further shift priorities away from science and education.
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