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The IMF should stop forecasting renewed growth and issue a warning that the global economy will remain
weak
and vulnerable unless world leaders act energetically to spur innovation and growth.
In short, private investment growth has been
weak
primarily because the pace of recovery has been anemic.
Under conditions of
weak
aggregate demand, stronger public investment encourages more private business investment.
If the dollar is strong, then the euro or the yen is
weak.
Should they simply agree to the strong dollar policy, even though it implies a
weak
yen or euro policy?
It must also contend with significant fiscal drag, ongoing deleveraging in the household sector (amid
weak
job creation, stagnant incomes, and persistent downward pressure on real estate and financial wealth), rising inequality, and political gridlock.
In Japan, the post-earthquake recovery will fizzle out as
weak
governments fail to implement structural reforms.
And, politically, the promise of the G-20 has given way to the reality of the G-0:
weak
governments find it increasingly difficult to implement international policy coordination, as the worldviews, goals, and interests of advanced economies and emerging markets come into conflict.
Likewise, addressing
weak
competitiveness and current-account imbalances requires currency adjustments that may eventually lead some members to exit the eurozone.
These effects will be particularly destabilizing in already-volatile situations, exacerbating challenges like
weak
governance, economic inequality, and social tensions – and producing truly toxic conflicts.
In a world of
weak
multilateral institutions – including a G20 beset by substantial differences of opinion on basic questions – it is more important than ever that euro-zone governments bolster their collective clout in an uncertain, unprecedented, and competitive global environment.
China’s producer price index has been falling for 32 months, reflecting excess capacity and
weak
external demand, while the consumer price index has declined from 3.2% to 1.6% over the last 12 months.
Distrust of politicians is mounting, manifested in
weak
electoral turnout (except for the last presidential election), protest votes for extremist parties, and the state’s inability to reform itself.
US consumption, the single biggest driver of global growth, is surely headed to a lower level, on the back of
weak
housing prices, rising unemployment, and falling pension wealth.
And it has deployed a variety of methods – including
weak
intellectual property (IP) protections, technology transfers as a condition for joint ventures with Chinese partners, evasion of export controls, and regulatory harassment – to acquire such technologies from the US and other trading partners.
But, if global growth remains
weak
and the dollar becomes too strong, even the Fed may decide to raise interest rates later and more slowly to avoid excessive dollar appreciation.
In a world where private aggregate demand is
weak
and unconventional monetary policy eventually becomes like pushing on a string, the case for slower fiscal consolidation and productive public infrastructure spending is compelling.
Looking at the combined effect of the new law, plus the
weak
additional capital requirements agreed under Basel III and the hands-off approach already signaled by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (which Mr. Geithner chairs), it is hard to believe that anything has really improved.
The economic crisis has wiped out more than 50 million jobs after years of weak, job-poor growth and increasing inequality in the world’s rich countries.
This trend was accompanied by the fact that these societies were marked by a high degree of inequality, as well as unstable economies,
weak
political parties, fragmented oppositions, and fragile institutions.
Many such efforts were born
weak
and struggled to mature.
But it can provide a political framework and institution-building support to improve the deficiencies that made these countries so vulnerable to the crisis: imperfect market economies,
weak
state institutions, and continued corruption.
The US government felt that it had a
weak
hand, because it was not prepared to allow AIG to default on any of its obligations.
While the global economy’s
weak
performance has led to a corresponding slowdown in the increase in carbon emissions, it amounts to only a short respite.
The main opposition Socialist Party’s
weak
electoral prospects are also helping Sarkozy.
On the contrary, he argued that “where the concepts and traditions of popular government are too
weak
to absorb successfully the intensity of the communist attack,” the US must concede that “harsh governmental measures” to repress communist sentiment were the “only answer.”
Moreover, the overriding importance of personal networks helps to maintain – or even increases – socio-economic inequality and hinders inclusive growth, as do
weak
intellectual-property laws and cumbersome bureaucracies.
In contrast to the United States and Europe, where the growth outlook looked
weak
at best, emerging markets were expected to sustain their strong performance from the decade preceding the global financial crisis, and thus become the engine of the global economy.
Prior to the crisis, the wealth effect produced by high asset prices mitigated downward pressure on consumption, just as low interest rates and quantitative easing since 2008 have produced substantial gains in asset prices that, given
weak
economic performance, probably will not last.
But, given the likely interest-rate differential between the US and other advanced economies (particularly the eurozone and Japan), together with a more robust US economic recovery, an era of dollar strength – and, almost by definition,
weak
emerging-market currencies – is here to stay.
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