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Watch a World Economic Forum discussion with Lucy Marcus and Barbara Novick, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, USA, on boardroom ethics and corporate governance:The Causes and Cures of CorruptionCHICAGO: In recent years, allegations about corrupt public officials have toppled or greatly
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governments in many nations, and diminished public support for the transition from communism in many parts of the former Soviet empire.
The problem, as McKinnon recognized, is that these speculative inflows of “hot” money have
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China’s macroeconomic tools and fueled ever more financial repression.
Making matters worse, the administration’s shrinking of the US State Department has
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the institutional base for implementing official foreign policy to an almost mission-critical degree.
Unlike China, which has shown clear signs of stabilization since mid-2012, there is no clear evidence of recovery in India yet, as delay in implementing necessary reforms, among other factors, has
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the economy’s competitiveness.
Having received its smallest share of the popular vote since World War II, the SPD is severely weakened, and may be unable to pursue anything but the least controversial items on its domestic agenda.
But the IMF’s arguments have been
weakened
by a recently published report by its own evaluation office, highlighting the Fund’s failure to identify emerging risks in the run-up to the crisis.
Between 2000 and 2004, the National Liberation Army (ELN) was seriously weakened, and the FARC retreated to a smaller area, notably reducing its combat potential.
But Spain’s grip on the territory had
weakened
in the dying days of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
And yet, despite the WTO’s vital importance, it is being
weakened.
The US tariffs have already undermined global growth and
weakened
the WTO.
In particular, China’s slowing growth has
weakened
demand for Latin American commodities.
Russia’s nationalists are also outraged by Putin’s foreign policy, because it has alienated former Soviet republics and
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Russia’s military.
Its resolve to counter the Islamists’ growing influence has been
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by two unfortunate events: the recent assassination of Salman Tasser, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, and the deaths last month of two young men allegedly at the hands of an American official named Raymond Davis.
Whether deliberately or not, regulators seem to have missed their chance to implement serious changes to the rules of global finance, and governments are now so
weakened
that they are at the mercy of those who, not long ago, were begging them for help.
Particularly by guaranteeing highly indebted countries’ sovereign bonds, the ECB has actually
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the willingness to reform, particularly in the larger European Union countries, whose decrepit economic structures are an obstacle to potential growth, and where more room must be given to private initiative.
If the shocks are sharp enough – and if they hit a
weakened
global economy that is approaching its “stall speed” of around 3% annual growth – the relapse could turn into the dreaded double-dip recession.
But in the aftermath of the worst crisis and recession of modern times – when shocks can push an already
weakened
global economy to its tipping point a lot faster than would be the case under a stronger growth scenario – the escape velocity of self-sustaining recovery is much harder to achieve.
Yet with exports still close to a record 45% of pan-regional GDP, Asia can hardly afford to take external shocks lightly – especially if they hit an already
weakened
baseline growth trajectory in the post-crisis developed world.
But workers were “trapped” in the rural sector: they didn’t have the resources to move, and their declining incomes so
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aggregate demand that urban/manufacturing unemployment soared.
The outcome is both uncertain and highly consequential – for Europe, of course, but also for a global economy that is in the midst of a synchronized slowdown and operating with a
weakened
anchor, owing to America’s recent debt-ceiling debacle and the humiliating loss of its AAA sovereign credit rating.
A
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democracy is an exceedingly high price for the US to pay – and for what?
Moreover, far from being supported by such a move, the rest of the eurozone would be weakened, as speculators would start testing the true value of the German, French, or Portuguese euro.
Spain’s government has been
weakened
for the same reasons.
German growth could survive a stronger euro, because its exports are much less price-sensitive, but countries such as Italy and Greece, which must compete on price, would be
weakened
further.
It comes from within, but can be reinforced or
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by the way others perceive you.
Europe’s ability to project soft power is weakened, as is its appetite to do so.
All in all, despite all the focus on the US, Europe, or Japan, China continues to hold the trump card in today’s
weakened
global economy.
Instead, Germany’s former social-democratic government
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the pact when doing so was politically convenient, while less competitive eurozone members allowed wages to rise and the public sector to become bloated, and then looked away as easy credit fueled both debt and asset bubbles.
It will survive NATO’s further enlargement, although it will be
weakened
temporarily and pushed into anti-Western alliances.
An institutional framework implies that CFMs should be part of a country’s permanent policy toolkit, and that regulations are strengthened or
weakened
depending on the phase of the business cycle.
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