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The European Investment Bank, the World Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have agreed on a new Joint Action Plan, including investment totaling €30 billion ($39 billion) over the next two years, as well as policy advice, to support economic recovery and sustained growth in the region.
ECB President Mario Draghi claims that “a sustained recovery is taking hold,” while policymakers in Berlin and Brussels latch onto signs of life in Spain and Ireland as proof that their bitter prescription of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms worked as advertised.
And it is likely to be a temporary bounce, not the start of a sustained recovery.
In Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil and Colombia, voracious Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials and food boosted foreign reserves, enabled heavy government spending, and sustained high levels of imports.
Under the assumption of labor scarcity and diminishing returns to capital, economic growth cannot be sustained unless total factor productivity (TFP) increases significantly.
These three writers implicitly recognize that liberalism's weakness is revealed at those moments when even "thin" loyalty is impossible, when there is no chance for institutional compromise, and when a modus vivendi cannot be sustained.
The major risk to the sustained role of the dollar is the large and growing US national debt.
Although China is not the only country to enjoy such long-term growth (post-WWII Japan and South Korea are other cases), it is something of a miracle that a once-poor country with one-fifth of the world’s population could achieve such sustained development.
Against the pressure of Asia’s rapid urbanization and industrial development, this will take sustained effort, involving complex policy decisions and painful economic trade-offs.
It will require a sustained effort and enormous patience, but could be hugely beneficial to US strategic interests.
The huge rise in government spending from 2006 to the 2009-2013 period did produce employment gains, but they were not sustained.
The authorities promise to allow the market to determine the exchange rate, and that there is no reason for a sustained decline.
To chart a way forward, a sustained dialogue between the EU and Turkey is urgently needed.
After all, while globalization and technology lead to job displacement, sufficient growth can ensure that overall employment is sustained.
A stimulus package of less-than-prudent fixed-asset investment, adopted in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, sustained 9% GDP growth for two years.
Without the additional money that GIPS central banks created in excess of their countries’ requirements for internal circulation, trade deficits could not have been sustained, and the GIPS’ commercial banks would have been unable to prop up asset prices (which all too often were those of government bonds).
So, with policymakers and pundits railing against sustained oversized trade imbalances, we need to recognize that the real problems are rooted in excessive concentrations of debt.
My colleagues in government are expected to demonstrate this by means of sustained reforms that foster meritocracy, transparency, and accountability.
The organization that emerged, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has undergirded the longest period of sustained peace and prosperity in the West’s modern history.
With structural reforms having proved inadequate to deliver sustained growth, a change in the external environment is needed.
Sustained support for institutions like the Global Fund and Gavi, for the empowerment of women and girls, and for innovation is crucial to accelerating progress for the world’s poorest people.
After all, economic development and sustained growth are the result of continual industrial and technological change, a process that requires collaboration between the public and private sectors.
Accelerating wage growth implies that the economy is now at a point at which increases in demand created by easier monetary policy or expansionary fiscal policy would not achieve a sustained rise in output and employment.
But, for the Fed, it is, in the sense that excessively easy monetary policy can no longer achieve a sustained increase in employment.
This strategy will pay off only if a sustained economic recovery does not require a significant reallocation of labor.
With risks to the current global expansion increasing, this is the wrong time to let an obvious and sustained source of growth slip away.
During the first half of the 2000’s, US policymakers chose not to worry about sustained current-account deficits, which peaked at above 6% of GDP.
Later, academic researchers identified more plausible reasons why the US might be able to run large deficits without great risk, as long as investors’ desire for diversification, safety, and liquidity sustained global demand for US assets.
But policymakers should have recognized that even these better rationales had limits, and that massive sustained current-account deficits are often a blinking red signal of deeper problems – in this case, over-borrowing by households to finance home purchases.
The bottom line is that large sustained external imbalances are something that global policymakers do need to monitor closely, because, as the US housing bust showed, they can be an indicator of problems that need to be investigated more deeply.
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