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That the US remains dependent on China to buy billions of dollars worth of Treasury bonds every week to finance its yawning budget deficit is a sign of shifting global financial power – which China is sure to use for political gain in the years ahead.
Further complicating matters is the shifting nature of transatlantic security arrangements.
But there, too, attitudes have been shifting, especially after an Australian couple refused to take responsibility for a baby born through surrogacy who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome.
By contrast, the Modi government plans to pursue a pro-growth agenda that includes reducing bureaucratic delays, increasing infrastructure investment, stimulating manufacturing activity, and shifting to a simpler unified tax system.
When the last eurozone crisis began, large capital flows into the periphery were generating inflationary pressures; resources were shifting away from exports; and government revenues appeared to be strong.
And India, China, and South Korea are rapidly shifting their investments away from coal, and toward renewable-energy sources.
The burden needs to go somewhere, and shifting it back to its creators makes sense.
For China’s 270 million migrant workers, benefit portability could be decisive in shifting the balance from fear and precautionary saving to security and discretionary spending.
As climate change reshapes our planet, these threats are growing and shifting, compounding the challenge further.
Rebalancing the economy by shifting toward domestic consumption and avoiding over-investment will require major fiscal and monetary reforms, as well as structural reforms to delineate land-use rights more clearly.
But they have also introduced memory laws with essentially the opposite aim: to whitewash national narratives by shifting the responsibility for historical atrocities entirely onto others, whether Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union.
China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.
This is because most investors overreact to past returns, shifting their money around in a largely futile effort to channel it to managers who can beat the market.
Instead of focusing on how best to position itself in this shifting landscape, Poland – and Europe – is consumed with one politician’s delusional obsession.
Emerging economies’ scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.
If the entrepreneur is focused on a small but needy market, the venture capitalist will suggest shifting focus, whereas the philanthropist will help him figure out how to serve that market effectively.
It means governing together: shifting from coordination to common decision-making, and from rules to institutions.
If a ceasefire is achieved at this stage, it will reflect the rapidly shifting nature of today’s geopolitical environment.
To appease the Americans, discussions are taking place about shifting state religious oversight to marginal tasks such as operating schools for memorization of the Koran and regulating tourism.
But the health needs of low- and middle-income countries are now shifting.
A risk-sharing facility could limit the decline in actual growth after a crisis, while prompt EU-financed investment would prevent a country from shifting to a lower growth path.
Ambiguity is thus a political strategy that encourages the spread of implicit, informal rules of behavior, thereby shifting accountability onto the lowest ranking, least powerful, and most expendable soldiers.
Only by shifting the burden of responsibility back onto private lenders can debtor countries escape this quagmire.
The party’s approach is perhaps understandable: after all, shifting demographics have put the Republicans at an electoral disadvantage.
As co-chairs of the CPLC, we believe that one of the best ways to do that is by shifting the social and economic costs of heat-trapping gases from the public to the polluter.
Under Seehofer’s leadership, the CSU is shifting its focus from economic to cultural disputes.
And the shifting of macroprudential regulation from the national level to the European Union may reinforce this outcome by further helping to harmonize bank-lending behavior.
Amid shifting global power dynamics, diminished political legitimacy, and disruptive technological change, it is more difficult than ever to devise promising solutions.
When advanced economies implemented unprecedented monetary stimulus, Chinese leaders deepened their commitment to shifting from an export-led to a domestic-consumption-driven growth model, even if it meant enduring a difficult period of structural adjustment, which explains the country’s slowing growth over the past five years.
Yes, the ECB’s market-calming gimmick of shifting default risk from clever investors to trusting taxpayers worked.
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