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In general, there is a tendency to overestimate the economic benefits of big infrastructure projects in countries riddled by poor governance and corruption, and to underestimate the long-run social costs of having to repay loans whether or not promised revenues materialize.
Indeed, until the mid-1990s, the government’s lack of macroeconomic discipline and its tendency to succumb to populist demands and vested interests accounted for much of the country’s economic weakness.
Indeed, working daily with Chinese TV creators, I noticed a subtle, almost instinctive tendency to avoid any content or format that is unusual, novel, or unorthodox, never mind subversive.
Given the tendency of central banks to change interest rates gradually, any change of direction likely means more changes in the same direction later.
But the problem with military rule is a tendency toward incomplete understanding of the implications of political decisions – a problem that will be aggravated further by collective leadership.
But one little noticed, yet likely, aspirant has been sneaking up on the world economy: the growing tendency to limit the free circulation of people, to “fence in” the rich world.
We see the menace of this tendency constantly nowadays, but we perceive it in such a seemingly unthreatening way that we may well become accustomed to it rather than arresting it.
But, while the tendency in current trade negotiations to allow developing countries to open their markets less than others helps to achieve more balance, it may undermine the original goals of enhancing efficiency and boosting growth.
His work, the editors lamented, was emblematic of a “dangerous tendency among democratic economists to play the Nazis’ game.”
If the finance minister gets his sums right, the national debt remains the same over the cycle, with no tendency to grow or contract.
Investing fund surpluses in foreign securities would counteract the tendency for the exchange rate to rise.
While China cannot be blamed, perhaps not even implicated, in the growing tendency of India’s South Asian neighbors to play the “China card,” India cannot remain oblivious to this trend.
And the recent experience of other countries, particularly the United States, certainly cautions against the Western tendency to conflate succession and leadership quality.
In times of profound uncertainty, the tendency is to cling to the domain of the familiar and avoid innovative thinking.
But small countries’ economic growth is often more volatile – a tendency that younger states must learn to contain if they are to prosper in the long term.
But that has not altered Americans’ tendency to generalize invidiously about peoples and countries.
The fact that Jews were long a minority subject to discrimination is sometimes given as a reason for their tendency to devote themselves to commerce, finance, and the professions.
That reflects a recurring tendency in official policy debates, particularly in the eurozone, to concentrate on fixable problems to the exclusion of more difficult issues.
For some people, this will mean expensive genetic testing and designer diets, but for most, it will mean realistic advice based on visibly demonstrable phenotypes – a tendency to gain weight, for example, or an intolerance or allergic response to certain food types.
Liberal democracy is also being undermined by a tendency to emphasize “liberal” at the expense of “democracy.”
The European Union perhaps represents the apogee of this tendency.
Thus, liberal democracy has a tendency to deteriorate into one or the other of its perversions – illiberal democracy or undemocratic liberalism.
Journalists, politicians, and the general public have a tendency to attribute greater authority and precision to what economists say than economists should really feel comfortable with.
This reflected a tendency, conscious or not, to think that Europe was different.
Since 2010, I have been emphasizing the key role played by policy in keeping rates low in a post-crisis era characterized by large overhangs of public and private debt in the advanced economies and a tendency toward deflation.
Today’s tendency to view Muslim grievances in one-dimensional terms reduces political discourse to a very simplistic level.
Given national supervisors’ predictable tendency not to recognize problems at home, it seemed natural that the cost of cleaning up insolvent banks should also be borne at the national level.
His tendency to view Africa through an American lens is thus both understandable and inevitable.
Indeed, the breadth of the opposition to Morsi reflects a major global tendency toward the empowerment of the educated and connected middle classes, whose members tend to be suspicious of political parties and demand more direct political participation.
It must be distributed to the needy rather than favoring the elite - a tendency established in the past.
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