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Above all, liabilities have simply been shifted around the global economy, which cannot continue indefinitely.
It means, in economics-speak, that the parameters have shifted.
As governments improve their capacity for supervision, coordination, and regulation of the TVET system, actual skills training should be shifted to the private sector, thereby transforming the current supply-driven system to one that responds effectively to changing market demand.
Hezbollah has refused to disarm in the face of what it has called the Israeli threat, although its definition of this threat has shifted frequently enough to cast doubt on whether it would ever be willing to surrender its weapons.
And Americans have shifted greatly toward political philosophies – on the right and on the left – that regard public debt merely as a distraction.
The dynamics of income distribution have shifted adversely in recent decades, impeding consensus on economic policy.
And in other sectors, it has shifted to more digital, capital-intensive forms of production, rendering labor-cost disadvantages insignificant.
The US has shifted rapidly from global leadership to that kind of free riding, seeming to bypass the stage of global cooperation.
The reason is simple: as the 2006 elections approach, reforms have been shifted off the political agenda.
With one of those goals now ostensibly achieved, Kim has shifted his focus to securing new economic opportunities for North Korea’s sanction-battered economy.
Public support should be shifted from protecting large established corporations to encouraging the growth of newer enterprises.
The tide has turned in part because voters in recent elections seem to have shifted from the center left to the center right, or at least re-confirmed their more conservative convictions.
Failure to design an effective fiscal stimulus shifted the burden to monetary policy.
By doing so, Roosevelt and those who followed in his footsteps shifted the consensus.
As a result, the CDO market did not so much spread risk as it shifted and hid it.
The United States, in particular, shifted its stance significantly since its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, even accepting that the United Nations will have to organize the future negotiations.
And in his written work on this topic, he has seamlessly shifted between a definition of secular stagnation that involves permanently lower growth rates as a result of low investment and permanently lower employment as a result of deficient aggregate demand.
But, with China’s rise having shifted Asia’s balance of power, Indian and Japanese leaders have been seeking new security assurances, and the visit by the Emperor and Empress was the clearest signal Japan could send concerning the value it places on this emerging alliance.
When the government’s mea culpa and promise of reform failed to quell an Islamist rebellion in 1980, it shifted tack, portraying its opponents as the fruit of an Iraqi-Jordanian conspiracy.
What debt relief really means is that repayment will be shifted from 2022-2035 to 2035-2060, with interest added.
Bush's objective, however, was not to maintain the strength of the economy; it was to push forward a tax agenda that shifted the burden away from those who could best afford to bear it.
But emphasis seems to have shifted to encourage coordinated development between urban and rural areas.
The refugee crisis has shaken Europe to its core, because, rather than taking collective responsibility for managing the flood of migrants and refugees into Europe, we have mostly shifted the burden to frontline countries.
And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.
The ECB shifted its refinancing credit and money creation – to the tune of €900 billion – toward southern Europe and Ireland, as measured by the Eurosystem’s Target balances.
Fortunately, the economics of energy has shifted significantly in recent years.
The forecasters have now shifted their predictions of 3%-plus growth to 2011.
Though Bush shifted his policy toward bilateral negotiations with the North a few months later, the Kim regime had become much more obstinate.
In December, as Europeans shifted towards fiscal rigor, the US Congress extended for two years the tax cuts initiated by George W. Bush – which almost everyone interpreted as yet another effort to boost the US economy.
But, overall, the eurozone and Great Britain have clearly shifted towards austerity, which the US is still very reluctant to consider.
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