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He inherited an economic, political, and social crisis as deep as any in the world, and he warned President Bush last year that extreme poverty and widening ethnic divisions could incite insurrection.
To mitigate the threat, the countries of the Indo-Pacific must confront three key challenges, beginning with the widening gap between politics and economics.
Yet, in a letter published soon after by the same magazine, Justin Forsyth of Oxfam claimed that “..current patterns of growth and globalization are widening income disparities and hence acting as a brake on poverty reduction.”
Most economies are becoming less fair as well, with widening gaps between the rich and the poor.
The result was mounting public debt, which has now reached 70% of GDP, and a widening deficit, which has now reached nearly 11% of GDP.
CAMBRIDGE – Will today’s ever widening global financial crisis mark the end of the era of financial triumphalism?
But over the next 12 months, he will have to deal with a widening current-account deficit and a mountain of dollar-denominated debt.
A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.
And as elites continue to proclaim the benefits of free trade and globalization, they are merely widening the chasm of popular mistrust.
E Pluribus Unum for Europe’s Bank SupervisorsSTOCKHOLM – The European Union lacks an efficient supervisory framework for its vast financial industry, and the gap between what is needed and what exists is widening.
China’s problems arise mainly from widening income disparities, which are inciting hitherto unheard of levels of labor unrest – though this should not be viewed as a precursor to change of the sort that marked the rise of the Solidarity trade union and the end of communism in Poland.
The danger of ignoring the distributional aspects of growth patterns has lately come to the fore, as widening inequality has emerged as a key contributor to negative attitudes about economic and social progress.
Export and public-sector revenues have declined, giving way to widening current-account and fiscal deficits.
Whether it is coastal versus inland or rural versus urban, these countries must tackle the widening disparities, because high inequality may well threaten their very ability to continue growing as they have.
While few Western observers have fully recognized this perspective, developments in the West over the last ten years – the 2008 financial crisis, widening income and wealth inequality, and intensifying political polarization – have reinforced this mindset.
Surveys of attitudes toward the evolving global economic system show a widening divergence among countries as well as subgroups within countries.
Indeed, perhaps the most telling case in the widening political epidemic was a membership re-shuffle of the study section at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health that evaluates grants for studying workplace injuries.
Nor can policymakers afford to ignore the fourth mismatch – between ultra-low nominal interest rates and the relatively higher risk-adjusted return on equity (ROE) for investors – which has contributed to speculative investment and widening wealth and income inequality.
And there is good reason to fear that these widening rifts will be reflected in the new composition of the Parliament, making majority governance difficult if not impossible.
Bo’s case exemplifies what many in China believe to be endemic corruption among officials, and highlights the widening divide between ordinary people and those with political connections.
Rival powers – most notably the United States and the European Union – have introduced sanctions in the hope of widening cracks in the Russian elite, exploiting the fact that Putin has not diversified his economy away from oil and gas.
Although in South Africa, for example, imports of cheap Chinese manufactures have produced a large and widening bilateral trade deficit over the last decade, southern Africa as a whole stands to gain from the “minerals nexus.”
So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?
Such is the case with the spiraling tit-for-tat trade war now underway between Trump and a widening circle of countries and economies, including Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union.
The protests, fueled by the rising cost of living and widening economic and social disparities, quickly morphed into a repudiation of the regime itself.
The point is to allow people to fend for themselves by widening opportunities and increasing individual responsibility.
The crack is widening, and some of the world’s inhabitants – particularly the most vulnerable – are already seeing the water seep in.
Even more disturbing, the gap is widening, not closing (as one would expect following a downturn, when growth is typically faster than normal as the economy makes up lost ground).
Never mind that deficit spending makes no sense when the economy is nearing full employment: this sharp widening of the federal deficit is enough, by itself, to push the already-low net national saving rate toward zero.
With advanced and emerging economies moving fast to capture new opportunities created by technology, the digital divide is widening at an accelerating pace.
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