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So it is puzzling that some observers have saluted the IMF’s involvement as a virtuous effort by the international community to bring the listing European ship to port.
Two years into the euro's life, the Stability Pact that underpins the currency serves only the purpose of beating up on small countries (remember what happened to Ireland, which has as virtuous a budget balance as any country in Europe but which dared lower taxes against the Stability Pact's rules?).
As in sports, so in economic life: government commitment can start a virtuous circle of success, while government neglect can trigger a vicious circle of decline.
Only then can one hope for full implementation of reforms and the virtuous circle of improved expectations and economic performance that should have been set in motion by the European Council’s Lisbon summit seven years ago.
Apparently doing something virtuous – like turning off the lights– makes us feel entitled to act badly afterwards.
Switching off our lights and promising to cut carbon emissions may make us feel momentarily virtuous, but that’s all it does.
Just imagine: a more virtuous Europe encountering a more “decadent” China, whose venal elites are starting to turn on each other?
In the past decade, it became fashionable to extol the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon model, with its supposed virtuous circle of diffuse ownership and strong protection for distant shareholders.
Some degree of investment will add to demand, which may persuade others to invest – a virtuous circle.
It is time for global leaders to turn the current blight of unemployment, food insecurity, and austerity shocks into a virtuous cycle that promotes development and prosperity for all people.
Virtuous VictualsCAMBRIDGE, MA – The maxim “you are what you eat” has defined dietary thinking for hundreds of years.
Addressing this question, were it to gain traction, would involve a focus on an ecosystem of SDR use, with the composite currency – which last year added the Chinese renminbi to the British pound, euro, Japanese yen, and US dollar – potentially benefiting from a virtuous cycle.
This vast transformation has not only generated a virtuous circle that strengthened institutional stability and social capital.
Indeed, atheists and agnostics do not behave less morally than religious believers, even if their virtuous acts rest on different principles.
Moreover, this creates a virtuous circle, because today’s entrepreneurs can identify the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, and furnish them with the capital they need to change lives in the future.
Grameen vs. BangladeshHONG KONG – The feud in Bangladesh between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is being portrayed as a modern-day replay of the famous battle between the wicked Kauravas and the virtuous Pandavas in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity: capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.
It creates a virtuous circle.
Export promotion might appear to be a virtuous exercise, regardless of whom it supports.
This sort of leadership arrangement creates a virtuous circle.
Meanwhile, heightened international competition kept the lid on inflation, and interest rates remained low, giving a further boost to consumer spending and completing what looked like a virtuous growth circle.
Through a more comprehensive policy approach, we could turn a vicious cycle of economic stagnation, social immobility, and market volatility into a virtuous cycle of inclusive growth, genuine financial stability, and greater political coherence.
This could boost consumption across Southeast Asia, leading to a virtuous circle of growth.
The increased use of Eurobonds already seems to be spurring a virtuous cycle.
It means turning a vicious cycle into a virtuous one.
For the first time since 2011, all major developed economies are expected to align themselves on the same upward trajectory, possibly triggering a virtuous cycle that lifts the entire global economy.
This effort culminated in the Single European Act of 1986, which laid the foundation for the virtuous circle of strong growth and lower unemployment in the 1990’s.
Its practitioners are no more innately virtuous than anyone else, and their work is no less vulnerable to error and misuse.
This activated a virtuous circle; by strengthening the social movements rallying around the right to food, the Supreme Court’s decision enabled them to ratchet up pressure on state governments to build an effective food-security apparatus.
To allow any unelected group, however virtuous and idealistic, to substitute its will for that of parliament, is an assault on the foundations of democracy.
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