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Instead of a two part split between left and right, there was thus a triple division, between anti-globalization conservatives, pro-globalization liberals, and re-distributionist leftists.
The old triple polarization only returned with the new wave of globalization.
Does anyone really believe the French would have voted No had France’s economic growth rates been double or triple their current levels?
Americans estimated that the US foreign-born population stood at 37.8% – triple the actual proportion, 12.5%.
Meanwhile, innovations in health care have already brought the world close to wiping out polio, and we expect to see dramatic results from a new triple drug therapy that could eradicate elephantiasis, which affects 120 million people.
The manufacturing sector could, according to the MGI report, employ 7.6 million people and generate nearly $70 billion of GDP by 2030 – more than triple the potential size of the agriculture sector, which currently is Myanmar’s largest.
Better a 50 basis point increase now that allows the economic recovery to continue by keeping inflation in check, than triple or quadruple that figure down the road -- which could stop the recovery cold in its tracks.
Given fiscal drag and private deleveraging, lack of sufficient monetary easing in recent years would have led to double and triple dip recession (as occurred, for example, in the eurozone).
Indeed, by 2020, Chinese emissions could be more than triple those of Europe and even surpass those of the US and Europe combined.
Japan’s Rubble EconomyTOKYO – On March 11, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident.
The “Volcker shock” created a triple whammy: the US entered a deep recession; commodity prices plummeted; and Latin America’s capital inflows abruptly reversed, shifting toward US dollar-denominated instruments that offered better yields.
The Congressional Budget Office has cautioned that the US government deficit is on course to triple over the next 30 years, from 2.9% of GDP in 2017 to 9.8% in 2047.
Indeed, the cost of a single month of western military spending in Iraq or Afghanistan would be enough to triple total aid for education in the Middle East.
Investments in soil nutrients and water harvesting could help African farmers double or triple their food yields.
Similarly, intelligent transportation systems for roads can double or triple the use of an asset – typically at a fraction of the cost of adding the equivalent in physical capacity.
A recent World Bank study estimated that the damage from the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis) in March might ultimately cost Japan $235 billion (excluding the value of lives tragically lost).
Worse yet, even this triple disaster often did not fit the definition of the seismic event defined by the bond indentures.
Of course, compared to Japan’s two “lost decades” since 1990, even this year’s triple disaster pales in significance.
For example, India will need to triple its annual per capita energy consumption – currently about 30 gigajoules – to achieve the standard of living of today’s developed world.
In the meantime, the number of people older than 60 is expected to double by 2050 and more than triple by the end of the century.
Indeed, it appears that the world is witnessing a triple conflict.
The number of Syrians is thus essentially triple that of the next highest group, a proportion that holds true among European asylum-seekers as well.
If Russia’s power resources seem to be declining, Brazil’s appear to be more impressive, given it has a territory nearly three times the size of India’s, a 90% literacy rate, and triple the per capita income of India (and nearly twice that of China).
The salaries of Italy’s military chiefs of staff and chief of police are almost triple those of their American counterparts.
Sixteen years after the crisis, the unemployment rate was 6.2% – more than triple the rate in 1990.
Global GDP, which currently stands at about $60 trillion, will at least triple in the next 30 years.
Better a 50-basis-point increase now – thereby allowing the economic recovery to continue by keeping inflation in check – than triple or quadruple that figure down the road.
One possibility is to triple mobile broadband penetration in developing countries.
But if central banks don’t find a clear exit strategy from policies that double or triple the monetary base, eventually either goods-price inflation or another dangerous asset and credit bubble (or both) will ensue.
Removing this constraint might endanger the Bank's triple A rating, but will make it more effective.
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