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China Going ForwardBEIJING – China’s per capita income, at $3,800, has now surpassed the
threshold
for a middle-income country.
Now, if nuclear proliferation increases, the
threshold
for using nuclear weapons will likely fall.
An obvious starting point for a Hamiltonian Europe would be to set some standard limit for federalized national debt – perhaps the tarnished
threshold
of 60% of GDP that was mandated (without adequate enforcement) by the Maastricht convergence criteria, or perhaps a lower limit.
Correcting for variations in the cost of living across countries, the paper concludes that $10,750 of purchasing power in the year 1990 is the
threshold
for per capita income beyond which a country is high income, while $7,250 makes it upper-middle income.
Indeed, most Latin American countries far exceed the
threshold
of 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants that the World Health Organization uses to define an “epidemic” level of violence.
With another general election due next year, civil-society groups preferred that priority be given to lowering the 10% electoral
threshold
for parties to enter parliament, thus broadening political participation.
Trends in the region’s two giants are especially worrisome, with inflation having pierced the 5%
threshold
in China and running in excess of 8% in India.
State elections this spring will show whether the FDP maneuver lifts the party above the 5% electoral
threshold
needed to remain in parliament, or whether fear of certain death led them to political suicide.
If the recent real depreciation achieves that threshold, no further change in the exchange rate should be expected.
These groups claim, for example, that raising the income
threshold
for the top marginal tax rate will help middle-income voters, even though the top marginal tax rate is now levied on just 7% of German employees.
In the United States, for example, an annual handout of $10,000 to every adult – less than the official poverty
threshold
for a single person – would exhaust almost all federal tax revenue, under the current system.
In fact, a basic income may very well be fiscally feasible – not to mention socially desirable – in places where the poverty
threshold
is low and existing social safety nets are both threadbare and expensive to administer.
The result represents a sea change for Turkish politics, for it marks the first time that a primarily Kurdish party has cleared the 10% electoral
threshold
to enter the parliament.
If a sufficient number of Arabs reached that
threshold
at the right time, the long-docile Arab street would explode in anger, with each group of new protesters encouraging more to join in, giving people elsewhere in the Arab world the courage to initiate protests of their own.
Understanding this history is vital, because Europe’s Union once again stands at a threshold: should it keep its promise to start membership talks with Turkey?
The strategic shift is also a deliberate effort by Chinese policymakers to avoid the dreaded “middle-income trap” – a mid-stage slowdown that has ensnared most emerging economies when per capita income nears the $17,000
threshold
(in constant international prices).
Developing economies that maintain their old growth models for too long fall into it, and China probably will hit the
threshold
in 3-5 years.
Yet we made this historic compromise because we believed that doing so would bring us to the
threshold
of liberty.
The ECB would thus cross the
threshold
from monetary policy to fiscal policy.
Despite glimmers of hope, the eurozone and Japan are struggling to cross the 1%
threshold
for annual economic growth.
To avoid problems, a kind of debt-management agency should be established as well – possibly also under the auspices of the ESM – with a mandate to buy back member states’ debt above a certain
threshold.
For these countries, it matters whether history suggests that there is a strong
threshold
effect once public debt exceeds 90% of GDP.
Similarly, a higher electoral
threshold
for winning seats should counter vote buying by candidates.
Despite its name, which means “Together,” it refuses to enter into any kind of alliance with the mainstream parties, including SLD, even though both parties failed to meet the electoral
threshold
in the last parliamentary election.
Although one could quibble whether the countries with which negotiations were opened in 1998 (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia) had really jumped these hurdles, the
threshold
was set high.
Appropriately, at the end of the article in The Lancet , the authors discuss issues that may have resulted in a sample that in fact did not meet the “random”
threshold.
Economic growth in most emerging economies has slowed below 7%, the
threshold
needed to double per capita income in a single generation.
But, above a certain per capita income threshold, that trend reverses itself: at high income levels, economic growth correlates with environmental improvement, leading to the dubious conclusion that it might be possible to achieve sustainable growth without deviating from “business as usual” (maintaining current emissions levels).
We stand on the
threshold
of a new information society, one which will overwhelmingly be driven by information and images.
Global leaders seemed to recognize this when they agreed five years ago to limit global warming during this century to 2º Celsius above pre-industrial levels – the
threshold
beyond which we risk triggering more devastating consequences of climate change.
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