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If the Obama administration does not succeed in stopping Iran by peaceful means from crossing the threshold to becoming a nuclear power, a hot confrontation is lurking.
Such an explanation is needed to decide whether crossing a particular threshold really is the determining factor in an economic slowdown.
Given that it is the behavioral change, not the debt/GDP ratio itself, that causes the economy to slow, a “universal debt threshold” simply does not exist – not even in theory.
Even if one disregards how borrowed money is spent, the threshold does not apply.
When a country’s annual per capita income rises above a certain threshold – currently $1,580 – it becomes ineligible for Gavi support.
In business, the debt/income ratio is a well-known threshold, one that can move in step with exchange rates.
Given the importance of threshold effects, how can a system’s resilience be maintained?
The IPCC has concluded that if a single global carbon price is not established soon, it will be virtually impossible to prevent global warming from surpassing 2ºC above preindustrial levels – the threshold beyond which the most devastating effects of climate change would become unavoidable.
The decisions to appoint, rather than elect, regional governors, to introduce party-list voting, to raise the electoral threshold for parties to enter the Duma, and to repeal the minimum-turnout requirement – all accompanied by rampant manipulation of elections and the mass media – created a political system closed to feedback from society.
Although still electorally dominant, the party’s parliamentary representation has dropped below the two-thirds threshold required to change the constitution.
But while the government in Madrid could have managed the Catalan conflict more wisely by addressing it politically, not just legally, the dispute comes nowhere near the threshold of justifying independence.
Given that development strategies typically begin to fail when economies reach middle-income status – a threshold that China is rapidly approaching – China cannot afford to allow mounting cyclical risks to undermine its structural transformation.
Extending this idea to sovereign debt, government bond covenants could stipulate that if a sovereign’s debt/GDP ratio exceeds a specified threshold, principal and interest payments to bondholders would be automatically reduced.
Politically, however, most of them have crossed the threshold that has long limited their access to the kitchen of international decision-making.
In Europe, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, and Sweden have been meeting the UN threshold for a while, and Germany recently joined their ranks.
One proposal calls for the European Stability Mechanism to adopt a system similar to that of the International Monetary Fund, in order to prevent lending to insolvent countries and force reprofiling or restructuring after a certain debt threshold is crossed.
We are standing on the threshold of an exciting new era in which technological progress allows us to use a range of conventional and unconventional energy options (excluding nuclear energy).
A handful of countries – including Kenya, Rwanda, and Senegal – are working hard to reach this funding threshold.
Sixteen cities have already crossed the World Bank’s threshold for high-income status, with annual per capita incomes of more than $12,616, and four – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen – have global reach.
To avoid blowing past the 2º threshold, all parties to the Paris agreement will need to raise the level of ambition of their current commitments by 2020.
We are now on the threshold of another – the age of green economics.
In 1962, Friedman proposed a “negative income tax,” whereby people earning below a certain threshold would receive supplemental income from the government, rather than paying taxes to it.
This threshold exists in most constitutions in continental Europe.
These funds would operate on market principles and have to provide periodic accounting to political authorities (especially when their overall rate of return falls below a specified threshold), but would be otherwise autonomous.
In addition to reforestation and new carbon-capture technologies, carbon pricing has an essential role to play in reaching the IPCC’s threshold target.
Purchasing managers’ indices are now threatening the “50” threshold, which has long been associated with the break-even point between expansion and contraction.
Inflation is always a serious risk in China – especially with headline increases in the country’s Consumer Price Index surging through the 6% threshold this summer.
And, of course, the reactions of the nuclear powers to the disaster at Fukushima will be watched and analyzed closely by the so-called “clandestine threshold countries.”
Any decision to continue as before would send an unambiguous message to the clandestine threshold countries that are secretly pursuing nuclear weapons: despite lofty rhetoric and wordy documents, the nuclear powers lack the political will to change course.
Of course, India will seek to keep the war conventional, and so will try to pose its threat to Pakistan at well below the nuclear threshold as Islamabad defines it.
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