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But it ignores the fact that there still is a huge reservoir of urban labor in the informal sector that, upon shifting to the formal sector, would provide an additional boost to productivity.

Part of the answer lies in free market reforms undertaken in America, Britain and parts Europe, that made them more competitive by shifting the balance of power from labour and consumption to capital and investment.

For some, particularly in southern Europe, it is seen as a means of shifting the burden of supporting their indigent banks to those with deeper pockets.

Power is shifting from West to East.

So rebalancing requires shifting toward the tradable sector and external demand.

It moves economic growth away from a dangerous over reliance on external demand, while shifting support to untapped internal demand.

Shifting environmental factors shape human decision-making by activating motivational systems related to threat, achievement, and power motivation, as well as to care for others and social affiliation.

Second, countries with large accumulations of dollar reserves will be shifting substantial fractions of those reserves into euros.

So it is plausible that the solar-driven ocean warming between 1900 and 1950 started things off by shifting the equilibrium toward higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, accelerating global warming since then.

Compounding the problem: donors have also been shifting their focus from AIDS to other diseases, because there is a sense that more lives can be saved more cheaply.

But, in order to save the planet we know, and to preserve the world’s food supply and the well-being of future generations, there is no alternative to shifting to a new, low-carbon energy system.

It needs to phase out the internal combustion engine for almost all new passenger vehicles by around 2030, shifting to vehicles powered by electricity.

In an article published on Christmas Day in the Wall Street Journal, the usually wise economist Martin Feldstein makes the case for a set of policies designed to stimulate demand, including increasing investment tax credits and shifting the corporate-tax burden to firms that do not spend very much.

By shifting its monetary-policy regime to target 4% annual inflation – or 6% annual nominal GDP growth – the US would set in motion rapid rebalancing in the eurozone.

The ECB’s shifting of refinancing credit via the Target system has therefore already hit the limit, three years earlier than the trend of the past three years would have suggested.

All of these hidden costs make the price of nuclear energy higher than the price of shifting to renewable energies and improving energy efficiency.

The “Volcker shock” created a triple whammy: the US entered a deep recession; commodity prices plummeted; and Latin America’s capital inflows abruptly reversed, shifting toward US dollar-denominated instruments that offered better yields.

More broadly, Asia’s power dynamics are likely to remain fluid, with new or shifting alliances and strengthened military capabilities continuing to challenge regional stability.

Syria’s Balance of TerrorLONDON – As the civil war in Syria nears the six-year mark, the mounting death toll and constantly shifting military landscape is making a mockery of the diplomatic track.

In a war with endlessly shifting priorities, conflicting aims, few credible commitments, and plenty of foreign meddling, any ceasefire today is just as likely to be broken by violence tomorrow.

Encouraged by a religiously influenced administration, school systems are shifting their focus from science to “values.”

But Abe’s government also recognizes that the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, and that many in the US are tempted by the siren song of isolationism.

So the intifada produced the first big change in the balance of Palestinian political power since the peace process began a decade ago, with more and more people shifting loyalty from the nationalists to the Islamists.

Overall productivity doubles, and can double again, as both agriculture and manufacturing become still more productive, with some workers then shifting to restaurants or health-care services.

New social and political movements and structures are emerging, power is shifting, and there is hope that democratic processes will strengthen and spread across the Arab world in 2012.

To realize this goal, governments must work together more closely to prevent sophisticated and flexible criminal networks from shifting their operations to more hospitable territories.

But it is doing the same at home by shifting its focus from dam-saturated internal rivers to the international rivers that originate in the Tibetan plateau, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Manchuria.

While he has publicly regretted the errors in British intelligence about Saddam Hussein, that is merely a way of shifting the blame from the government to the intelligence services.

Without strict conditionality, she would risk shifting the domestic consensus in favor of Germany’s emerging Euro-skeptic mood.

Global supply chains – constantly in flux, owing to rising developing-country incomes and shifting comparative advantage – locate productive activities where human and other resources make those activities competitive.

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