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Both now
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his rule.
Lastly, improving the quantity and quality of education and healthcare through partnerships with the private and non-profit sector and researchers is essential to
sustain
growth beyond the next five years.
And make no mistake: despite the tremendous gains of the last couple of decades, much work remains to be done to
sustain
progress on health and development.
But the political reality is that China’s government favors rapid growth in the short run over the structural reforms needed to
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long-term economic performance.
In decades to come, China can no longer
sustain
the cost advantages that defined its initial period of export success.
And while Russia is beefing up its armed forces and introducing new battle tanks from an old rusting base, it does not have the economic and industrial might to
sustain
any long-term war effort – and its leaders know this.
As it happens, Russia’s position today is even less secure than it was in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union’s weakening economy could no longer
sustain
control of an Eastern European buffer and satellites elsewhere.
In 2004-2007, I considered that I might be wrong about a relatively rapid resolution to the world’s economic distress: as the late Rudi Dornbusch put it, unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances can
sustain
themselves longer than economists (with their touching faith in rational human decision making) believe is possible.
This is partly because, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which all of these countries have ratified, these outcroppings’ sovereign owners can claim a full 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (enabling sole exploitation of fisheries and oil resources) if they can
sustain
an economic life of their own.
That contract in Arab countries started to erode at the turn of the century, when governments with inflated budgets and bloated bureaucracies could no longer provide an adequate supply of basic services such as health care and education, create a sufficient number of jobs, or
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food and fuel subsidies.
Arab governments were able to
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inefficient economies for decades because they were propped up by oil revenues.
China has chosen a high-risk path – ignoring human rights and violating UN sanctions – to secure the energy and other resources needed to
sustain
its economy’s rapid growth.
For starters, China has a very high saving rate – above 45% over the last decade, much higher than in the advanced economies – which enables it to
sustain
higher debt levels.
In addition to its air-strike deficiencies, Europe demonstrated serious shortfalls across all of the areas required to
sustain
any air campaign.
Some countries, like Hungary, have managed to
sustain
the quality of education, critical for long-term competitiveness.
First, fiscal and external-account balances are to be kept in check in order to ensure financial stability and
sustain
the common currency.
This was my point five years ago in renewing the idea of secular stagnation – to suggest that the economy as it was in 2013 required some combination of fiscal expansion and structural change to
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full employment.
It is the only state of the planet of which we know that can
sustain
prosperous lives for ten billion people.
It draws on the best science to identify the key planetary processes regulating the earth’s ability to
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Holocene-like conditions.
At this level, China would finally have the domestic value chain that it needs to
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competitiveness and rapid economic growth.
The wage surprise draws its inspiration from the Netherlands, where a consensus emerged in the early 1980’s that in order to
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employment, the burden of taming rampant inflation should be shared by employers and the employed.
Crisis management is no way to
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relationships that are economically close but riddled by rival claims and bitterly contested historical narratives.
The low-interest-rate environment has also caused lenders to take extra risks in order to
sustain
profits.
A too-rapid inflow of immigrants weakens bonds of solidarity, and, in the long run, erodes the affective ties required to
sustain
the welfare state.
All that is required is that growth in housing supply eventually outstrips investors’ faith in capitalism to
sustain
faster growth in demand.
The big issue is not how to deal with a downturn, but rather how to
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today’s global boom and the capital flows that go with it.
The needed acceleration in productivity growth – by 80% to
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overall GDP growth and by 22% to
sustain
per capita income growth at the rates of the last half-century – is daunting.
Even if gains in female labor-force participation and resource-efficient productivity growth
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high rates of economic growth, one key challenge remains: income inequality.
With global problems like food insecurity and climate change threatening livelihoods around the world, nomadic and pastoral lifestyles have the potential to protect and
sustain
millions of people.
Using land that cannot support conventional agriculture, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists produce meat, milk, and livestock products that
sustain
millions.
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