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The forecast errors have three potential sources: failure to recognize the time needed for economic recovery after a financial crisis; underestimation of the “fiscal multipliers” (the size of output loss owing to fiscal austerity); and neglect of the “world-trade multiplier” (the tendency for countries to drag each other down as their economies contract).
German energy policy now depends once more on the future deployment of renewable energy
sources.
The Renewable Energy
Sources
Act, for instance, introduced in 2000 by a Social Democrat-Green government, has enabled the country to exceed all growth expectations in the alternative-energy sector, which now accounts for 20% of Germany’s total electricity consumption.
Shifting to renewable-energy
sources
will require enormous effort and major infrastructure investment.
In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).
But, as trade liberalization has lowered tariffs and duties, the share of trade taxes has declined, while other
sources
have not compensated for falling trade revenue.
Not all
sources
of wealth – and by extension not all types of inequality – are the same.
Because the economic benefits from these
sources
of wealth are more questionable, the argument that these fortunes should be protected from redistribution is far less compelling.
Consumer deleveraging is likely to persist for years to come, leaving the US increasingly desperate for new
sources
of growth.
And when the usual
sources
of these resources are disrupted, women are forced to travel farther and spend more time working for less return.
In Asia, the figures were 30% for Afghanistan and 38% for Tajikistan, while in Europe Moldova received 31% of its GDP from external
sources.
And India, China, and South Korea are rapidly shifting their investments away from coal, and toward renewable-energy
sources.
These are just the latest
sources
of concern in a turbulent period that began two years ago when food shortages hit many countries in Africa and Asia due to a worldwide spike in prices.
Alternative energy
sources
such as solar and wind create significantly more expensive fuel and electricity than traditional energy
sources.
Deploying less efficient, more expensive alternative-energy
sources
will hurt businesses and consumers, not help them.
We can expect to hear all kinds of misleading excuses from EU
sources
for excluding the IMF: “the Fund is too American,” “Europe must resolve its own problems,” and “the IMF is not appropriate to our circumstances.”
The
sources
of those tensions are clear: North Korea’s shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island and its flaunting of a modern, previously unknown, nuclear plant; the US-led armada now cruising through the South China and Yellow Sea; and China’s claim that the South China Sea is an area of vital national interest akin to Tibet.
That is a convenient international ploy, but it leaves the
sources
of bilateral discord unattended.
To be sure, taxes are needed to finance social spending, but revenue
sources
other than taxes on labor income could do the job.
For example, today there is no global price on carbon to shift energy investment from fossil fuels to renewable sources; but we know that, in order to keep global warming below the 2º limit, such a price is coming soon.
As stewards of long-term capital, today's investors cannot ignore the coming carbon price and the shift toward low-carbon energy
sources.
Finally, policymakers should encourage further capital-market integration, which would reinforce the euro, improve cross-border risk taking, diversify funding sources, and expand access to finance.
Today, government budget allocations are among the leading
sources
of media revenue.
And the emerging and developing economies should support domestic
sources
of growth.
This is critically important for inspiring confidence in Asian countries, which might be persuaded to favor domestic, as opposed to external,
sources
of demand.
Its investment plans are overextended outside of Russia – part of the imperial policy – while domestic exploration for new
sources
is declining, as foreign companies have been forced to surrender stakes in projects such as the huge gas development on Sakhalin Island.
Similarly, while the world today searches for ways to confront dependence on fossil fuels and seeks other, cleaner energy sources, Russia continues to live off its oil and gas, which only encourages it to delay the economic and political restructuring that it will need to succeed in the long term.
Indeed, from 2000 to 2004, the increase in net government expenditures accounted for 150% of income growth, as other
sources
of income shriveled up.
Once upon a time, global foreign direct investment flowed from only a few sources: the traditionally wealthy states of Europe, North America, and Japan.
As the two largest
sources
and destinations for foreign investment, accounting for a combined 56% of global FDI outflows and 42% of inflows, the US and EU have a particular interest in ensuring a well-functioning international investment regime.
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