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Debt overhang traps countries in a vicious circle.
In general, neither pure austerity nor crude Keynesian stimulus can help countries escape high-debt traps.
Both have been used more widely – indeed, taken to extreme levels – to supplement the unconventional expansion of balance sheets in the context of liquidity traps.
He warned that if the international community did not come together, “vicious cycles” of deflation, liquidity traps, and increasingly pessimistic expectations could take hold.
In such an economically insecure global environment, riddled with protectionist booby traps, a free-trade pact between the world’s two largest trading blocs, accounting for roughly 40% of global GDP, has never been more important.
Policymakers will have to worry about a strange beast called “stag-deflation” (a combination of economic stagnation/recession and deflation); about liquidity traps (when official interest rates become so close to zero that traditional monetary policy loses effectiveness); and about debt deflation (the rise in the real value of nominal debts, increasing the risk of bankruptcy for distressed households, firms, financial institutions, and governments).
Meanwhile, Yushchenko was forced to accept a poorly designed political reform full of traps.
Both led their countries into traps with which their successors must deal.
In new EU member states, the EIB has supported mostly high-carbon energy, which traps these countries in unsustainable energy systems.
Internet communication in modern China is filled with baits and traps: user-friendly Web page designs, easy-to-click icons and symbolized facial expressions, beautiful female stars in online ads and constantly updated international news induce users to participate and express their own ideas.
The data reveal that the US is riddled with so-called inequality traps: Those born at the bottom are likely to remain there.
If we are to eliminate these inequality traps, we first have to know that they exist, and then ascertain what creates and sustains them.
European countries should thus be focusing on resolving these real problems, rather than laying new debt traps.
Every day, I work to help end the extreme poverty that traps nearly a billion of the world’s people.
Despite the traps into which it has sometimes fallen and become entangled, internationalism has nourished the best of what “the West” has represented.
Once countries become ensnared in China’s debt traps, they can end up being forced into even worse deals to compensate their creditor for lack of repayment.
And as countries worry about China bending them to its will by luring them into debt traps, it is no longer smooth sailing for the BRI.
But the United States has mostly avoided these traps, owing largely to term limits and a reliable system of checks and balances.
The Fund is a rare example of public-private cooperation that, despite long odds, is succeeding in its quest to help break the nexus of poverty and educational deprivation that traps too many Roma.
This can be achieved through traps and targets (insecticide-soaked screens), which attract the flies to a device that collects and/or kills them.
Researchers also pursued a deeper understanding of the genes involved in sensing colors, in order to help determine which shade of blue – the color that has long been known to attract tsetse flies – would work best for traps.
Future research on the molecular aspects of olfaction and vision can guide the development of more effective mechanisms for luring flies to the traps or repellants that could be applied to animals to protect against tsetse bites.
Rhetorical traps of this type can catch us with our guard down, above all when the person who resorts to them is a leader who is known for serving his ideas raw.
All of this speaks to the impotence of central banks to jump-start aggregate demand in balance-sheet-constrained economies that have fallen into 1930s-style “liquidity traps.”
But four major traps lie ahead.
Avoiding these four traps will be extremely difficult.
As China confronts the four traps, its ability to develop and retain human talent will be vital to success.
Tyndall’s measurements 150 years ago showed that carbon dioxide traps heat and causes warming.
The fact that obstacles to short-term employment contracts lead to long-term unemployment traps is often forgotten.
The economy in Europe and the United States, Krugman argued, had fallen from glory and returned to a pre-World War II pattern of “depression economics,” in which its dominant features were shortages of aggregate demand, risks of deflation, financial crises, and liquidity traps.
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