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As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited from Saddam Hussein's regime, voices ranging from the charity Oxfam-International to US defence guru Richard Perle are calling for debt repudiation on the grounds that the debts Iraq now bears were contracted to
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a corrupt, oppressive regime.
The international community can help the Arab governments to launch and
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such initiatives in several ways.
Though she hasn’t confronted a crisis, she did help to
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the US economy’s steady recovery from the 2007-09 recession.
Another casualty is the quality of public policy: evidence-based policies that change according to circumstances on the ground, or pragmatic approaches that retain policies that work and discard those that don’t, cannot
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a group’s clear identity if the policies the group advocates are shifting all the time.
Countries across the continent are racing to construct the roads, ports, power stations, schools, and hospitals they will need to
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their growth and meet the needs of their fast-growing and urbanizing populations.
By resisting protectionist barriers at home and abroad, by continuing to recruit and welcome the world’s best students, by sending more students overseas, by fostering cross-national research collaboration, and by strengthening its own research universities, the US can
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its well-established academic excellence while continuing to expand the sum total of global knowledge and prosperity.
For its part, Russia is working to
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the insurgency because it wants sufficient leverage to ensure Ukrainian neutrality in the inevitable peace talks.
To
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progress in the fight against climate change and corruption, environmental and anti-corruption movements will have to work together, and play to their respective strengths.
When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer
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livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues.
But the world, too, must be generous and steady in assisting Nepal to
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the still fragile success of a remarkable peace process.
Moreover, having built the needed physical infrastructure in the last decade (perhaps to excess), China is now emphasizing the software infrastructure needed to
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the growth of its burgeoning services sector.
Advocates of a more open policy argue that populations are aging and workforces are diminishing, so greater immigration is needed to
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high living standards.
After all, such views undermine many other important principles – namely, those needed to create and
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an inclusive, tolerant, and peaceful society.
Otherwise, they would need to
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for much longer their unconventional monetary policies, including quantitative easing and negative policy rates – an approach with which most central banks (with the possible exception of the Bank of Japan) are not comfortable.
No economic recovery can
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itself without rising wages and higher consumer spending power.
In short, the key challenges facing Asia today are to
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economic growth – at lower, but still enviable, rates – and to improve its quality.
And it paid tribute to the ability of US markets and financial firms to create innovative instruments to “attract and
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high levels of capital inflows.”
And, without a comprehensive development agenda that addresses green energy, food security, and climate change, it will be impossible to create economies that can
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economic and social advancement.
Until the financial crisis, the easy availability of credit, especially against home equity, enabled the middle class to
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higher consumption despite stagnant incomes.
Both instruments could be subject to conditions designed to ensure that the funds do not
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rampant corruption, but flow instead to where they are needed most.
Increasing debt to
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current consumption, whether in the household or government sector, is rightly viewed as an unsustainable element of a growth pattern.
That dynamic unmasks the Achilles’ heel of Trumponomics: a blatant protectionist bias that collides head-on with America’s inescapable reliance on foreign saving and trade deficits to
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economic growth.
Most notably, Jorma Ollila, who had led Nokia’s transition from an industrial conglomerate to a technology giant, was too enamored with the company’s previous success to recognize the change that was needed to
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its competitiveness.
It may be instructive to recall that in other protracted post-crisis episodes, including the Great Depression of the 1930s, economic recovery without resolution of the fundamental problems of excessive leverage and weak banks usually proved shallow and difficult to
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The framework of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects is designed to generate and
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the political will necessary to get the project done.
Earlier reforms are now bearing fruit, and this has helped to
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economic growth.
These are not mineral-rich or bountiful agricultural nations: some coffee and bananas here, a little sugar and beef there, but nothing with which to
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a boom.
If almost everyone agrees that more investment is needed to elevate and
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growth, but most believe that someone else should pay for it, investment will fall victim to a burden-sharing impasse – reflected in the political process, electoral choices, and the formulation of fiscal-stabilization measures.
Simply put, one cannot
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current levels of consumption and entitlements without crowding out public-sector investment, unless one believes that the state’s borrowing power is unlimited, and that the intergenerational burden shift is unimportant.
The desire to avoid substantial tax increases (and to
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consumption levels) will almost surely be reflected in a continuing shortfall of public-sector investment, in turn undermining long-term growth.
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