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That became clear this year when US President Donald Trump imposed the first of a widening set of tariffs against Chinese goods, with China retaliating in kind.
The trigger for America’s turn to economic nationalism is its widening trade deficit – $566 billion in 2017, and growing – as the US economy recovers.
Mobility in the RePEc rankings remains subdued even after widening the sample.
Moreover, the economy-wide productivity gap between the US and Western Europe does not appear to be widening very rapidly, if at all.
Target2, the euro’s real-time gross settlement system, has emerged as the eurozone’s mechanism for financing the emergence of widening structural balance-of-payments gaps, whereby capital flows out of southern Europe into Germany.
This means that the divergence is widening.
Indeed, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Outlook, widening income disparities will be the second most important world trend in 2014, behind only Middle East tensions.
It is often said, for good reason, that the widening income gap largely reflects technological change, which has drained many economies of blue- and even white-collar jobs, while channeling the fruits of improved productivity to high-skilled elites.
But in a globalized and transparent world, the widening gap between rich and poor matters more.
More than 80% of the world’s population live in countries where income differentials are widening.
Winning the PeaceAfghanistan’s future hangs in the balance as its weak national government struggles to maintain support and legitimacy in the face of a widening insurgency, warlords, the heroin trade, and a disappointed populace.
If the "Third Way" is to mean anything, it should focus on ways to overcome political obstacles to widening the market.
Freud's brand of psychoanalysis has fallen on hard times, but he would be the first to endorse the widening dialogue between psychotherapy and neuroscience.
At this point, the public-opinion gap between Sarkozy and Juppé is only widening.
Latin America, the region that tried hardest to implement the "Washington Consensus" recipes--free trade, price deregulation, and privatization--has experienced low and volatile growth, with widening inequalities.
It is not difficult to understand the widening appeal of tribalism; that appeal makes it all the more important to make the case for openness.
While economic integration helped achieve a broader set of goals in Europe, elsewhere, economic globalization has contributed to widening the divide between rich and poor within countries and between rich and poor countries.
This implies weak growth and widening inequality, a combination that could further undermine education and skill levels.
This rising dependency ratio is made worse by widening economic inequality; as more wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, the promise of ever-improving standards of living for most people may not be fulfilled.
This trade-off is exemplified by widening fiscal deficits.
Another reason poverty endures is persistent – and, in many places, widening – inequality.
So, over time, fiscal accounts worsen automatically, creating a vicious circle: monetized fiscal deficits lead to inflation and a widening gap in the parallel exchange-rate market which worsens the fiscal deficit.
The first is the widening of Britain’s income distribution between 1750 and 1850, as the gains from the British Industrial Revolution went to the urban and rural middle class, but not to the urban and rural poor.
But the subsequent and last stage brings us to the current moment, when economic policy choices have again resulted in a widening of the distribution of gains in the global north, ushering in a new Gilded Age.
Many Chinese seem to believe that market discipline will bring fair competition and contribute to closing the widening gap between rich and poor.
Argentina, for example, kept pace with the United States in per capita income growth from 1870 to 1940; since then, the gap has been widening steadily.
Equally important, the government has slashed woefully inefficient energy subsidies and unveiled a new mega-project: widening the Suez Canal to accommodate the ever-increasing amount of traffic.
As the country heads toward an election later this year, the European Commission has sanctioned the widening of its structural deficit.
But research by MIT’s David H. Autor and others finds that a large part of the widening income gap reflects increased competition from China.
Despite expressions of anguish about widening economic disparities within many countries, policies to address them remain inadequate.
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