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In assessing how far it is from meeting its mandate, the Fed may be better served by shifting from unemployment to employment thresholds (for example, the employment/population ratio).
But political culture is shifting to the right, without any kind of proper democratic authorization by citizens.
A similar revolt took place in the UK’s Conservative Party, with globalization’s losers coalescing around the party’s “Leave” campaign or shifting allegiance to the populist anti-EU UK Independence Party.
Taxing intermediate inputs will hurt efficiency, while shifting resources away from dynamic high-tech sectors in favor of old-line manufacturing will depress productivity growth, with further negative implications for investment.
But consumers’ preferences were already shifting toward touch-screen smartphones.
So, while US multinationals may not have been shifting jobs to their foreign subsidiaries, they, like other US companies, were probably outsourcing more of their production to foreign contractors in which they held no equity stake.
The G20 and the OECD have already outlined measures to counter tax-avoidance methods such as base erosion and profit shifting.
Even more significant, shifting income from state-owned enterprises to middle-class workers and increasing consumer spending will reduce China’s enormous saving rate.
This challenge is particularly difficult, because economic policy has not focused primarily on the adverse distributional trends arising from shifting global market outcomes.
The flaw in the politics of redistribution is that it emphasizes shifting wealth rather than creating it.
A good place to start is the public sector: procurement by governments and local authorities can play an important role in shifting economies towards cleaner forms of energy.
The details differ, but the idea is the same: creditors are shifting the entire burden of adjustment onto debtors, while the “center” avoids its own responsibility for the imbalances.
We need to use energy far more wisely while shifting from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources.
Even better, by shifting to electric vehicles, we would be able to use cutting-edge information technology to make them smart – even smart enough to drive themselves using advanced data-processing and positioning systems.
The Assad regime reacted with a shifting mix of violent repression (shooting at demonstrators) and offers of reform.
They arise mainly from an increasingly integrated global economy’s shifting technological landscape; but they have been exacerbated by a systematic pattern of public-sector underinvestment.
What Macron is trying to do is update France’s economic operating system, shifting from the reparative approach of the past to a preparatory model that can better address the challenges generated by digital technology, globalization, and rapid innovation.
The End of German HegemonyBRUSSELS – Without anyone quite noticing, Europe’s internal balance of power has been shifting.
But emerging-economy growth is now slowing considerably, including in China, where demand is shifting from investment toward consumption.
Early adopters, such as Amazon and Tesco, which quickly built up the requisite talent bases and experience, are now shifting gears to maximize the impact of analytics on their organizations (that is, exploring disruptive opportunities).
This re-balancing between the large and small member states is shifting some old assumptions in a number of paradoxical ways.
After several years of disappointing performance, the authorities are shifting to policies aimed at boosting the annual growth rate closer to the roughly 9% level that India achieved from 2004 to 2008.
Central to this is the worry that shifting production abroad will lead to more job losses in Western Europe, above all in labor-intensive sectors.
Even if America were to reverse its current policies and reduce its domestic agricultural subsidies--just one reason that Latin Americans view the FTAA as rank hypocrisy--a focus on export-oriented agriculture in Ecuador tends to favor large landowners over small farmers, shifting income from the poor to the rich.
But, increasingly, innovative startups operating in a mobile, globalized world will find that they can circumvent constraints in one location by shifting some or all of their assets or operations to another.
In such situations, QE “works,” if at all, primarily by altering exchange rates and shifting demand between countries.
Salman has since been shifting governmental responsibility to Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud.
The dilemma for China’s leaders is that meeting the need for more in pollution control and infrastructure makes it more difficult to achieve their goal of shifting the country’s economic-growth model from one based on investment and exports to one based on consumption.
The US, eager to boost its economy’s longer-term prospects by engaging new trade partners in the world’s fastest-growing region, is shifting resources to Asia – though US (and European) policymakers would be wise to move forward with a transatlantic free-trade agreement as well.
A post-modern neglect or disdain for reality generated the sense that the whole world was constantly shifting and malleable, and might be as transient and meaningless as stock quotations.
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