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For Germans, austerity, in the form of sustained wage and income restraint, was an important part of the growth-oriented reforms that their country completed in 2006.
Panics no longer occurred, which stabilized the financial system and contributed to sustained post-war economic growth.
But today, America is moving away from the convictions which sustained its international involvement over the past five decades.
The absence of sustained military momentum by any side has led to a dizzying mix of new security realities and strategic demands (from the implementation of Sharia law in opposition-held areas to predictions of regional secession).
The ceasefire between these two coalitions, sustained by the balance of terror, by no means signals the end of the infighting.
But what about conditions like a heart attack or injuries sustained in an automobile accident?
For decades, China’s economy sustained double-digit GDP growth, seemingly impervious to business cycles.
In emerging economies, sustained medium or high GDP growth is the key to advancing development and raising incomes.
While some countries have achieved sustained medium or high growth, they have relied on high levels of public and private investment, financed mainly by domestic savings.
Moreover, the return on foreign-reserve assets is usually quite low, because the local currency will appreciate (even if it remains undervalued) if the economy is growing – a pattern that can be sustained for an extended period.
If external financial conditions are favorable, this pattern can be sustained for some time.
In fact, it is hard to find any example of a country that has achieved sustained growth with such an approach.
While this is rational for investors, it does not support policymakers’ interest in sustained growth.
The state’s continued dependence on resource revenues has entrenched corruption, sustained autocracy, and encouraged foreign-policy adventurism as a substitute for broad-based material prosperity.
Japan’s economy, they point out, achieved more than 20 years of sustained rapid growth; but, in the 40 years since 1973, annual growth has exceeded 5% only a handful of times, and output has stagnated for the last two decades.
But can a system that has sustained 30 years of hyper-growth really be worse than those systems adopted in Japan and the Four Tigers?
Implementing (and funding) such initiatives will require sustained political will.
This has precluded sustained productivity growth, without which it is impossible to sustain an increase in overall living standards.
True, sustained economic convergence eventually requires high-quality institutions.
For much of modern history, export-driven industrialization and natural-resource wealth were viewed as the only mechanisms for sustained growth in the developing world.
As such, they are unlikely to see any sustained pickup in productivity growth without radical changes in innovation policy.
After all, most plans for emerging from the financial crisis assume that technological progress will provide a strong foundation of productivity growth that will eventually underpin sustained recovery.
Argentina’s high levels of social exclusion and poverty remain unsolved problems that must be addressed if long-term growth is to be sustained.
In my December 2008 column, I argued that the only practical way to shorten the coming period of painful deleveraging and slow growth would be a sustained burst of moderate inflation, say, 4-6% for several years.
Africa’s reforms to date have already started to produce results, though not yet sufficient to guarantee sustained and rapid economic growth.
But South Africa’s aspiration to play a dynamic role beyond its borders is proving increasingly difficult, primarily because the regional environment – indeed, the continental environment – is not hospitable, defying the best efforts of Mbeki’s government to produce meaningful and sustained political and economic change.
Ending cholera as a health threat by 2030, as global partners and the WHO recently pledged, will require sustained collaboration and commitment from cholera-affected countries, technical partners, and international donors.
Market participants, knowing this, would realize that inflation would not be sustained.
The peg did lower inflation; but it did not promote sustained growth.
Although great technologies are worth the investment from a societal point of view, it is not so easy for a company to achieve sustained profitability.
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