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Their thinking is at the forefront of a widening recognition that France must face the world’s challenges as they really are, not as the French want them to be.
The massive widening of the EMS bands to 15% on either side of a central parity initially made a single currency appear more remote.
The modern equivalent of the band widening of 1993 would be to maintain the euro for all members of the eurozone, but also allow some of them (in principle, all of them) to issue – if necessary – national currencies.
Europe needs more solidarity not only to overcome the crisis and complete the eurozone integration process, but also to bridge the widening divide between Europe and its peoples.
Non-state actors – like Hamas and Hezbollah, or the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan – that shield themselves behind a defenseless civilian population expose the widening gap between the traditional rules of war and the realities of today’s battlefield.
One reason is rooted in initial conditions that limit direct gains from increased trade while widening the scope for tension and conflict.
The current-account deficit is increasing relentlessly, owing to a widening trade deficit (now at 13% of GDP), raising the danger of a balance-of-payments crisis.
The rise of protectionism and anti-immigrant sentiment in Britain, America, and Europe is widely believed to reflect stagnant incomes, widening inequality, structural unemployment, and even excessive monetary easing.
Widening the scope of the next round of negotiations so that much more can be used as bargaining chips would make the job of the negotiators considerably harder.
But most researchers believe that the sources of widening US inequality lie primarily within earned income, rather than arising from the difference between earned income (wages and salaries) and unearned income (return on capital).
But, while this can explain a widening wage or income gap between skilled and “unskilled” workers (defined according to whether they are college-educated), this has little to do with the gap between the top 1% and the rest.
As Michael Spence recently warned, the international order’s widening security deficit, reflecting the weakening of whatever global governance we have, is fast becoming the biggest risk facing the world economy.
A widening North-South divide.
Thus, what we may get is both deepening and widening of the EU – something that today seems like squaring the circle.
The problem today is that, with increased globalization an apparently permanent new condition, and with inequality within countries widening, people tend to feel that their long-term economic situation is getting riskier.
Widening inequality in the world’s advanced and developing countries thus inflicts two blows against democratic politics.
Peace NowDespite the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, the risks of a widening war in the Middle East remain.
We can see the consequences all over the world, in the form of economic underperformance, widening inequality, and divisive politics.
While their proliferation has brought economic growth, jobs, and prosperity, it has also created today’s environmental, energy, food, and financial crises, in addition to widening income inequality and large pockets of poverty.
The hubbub of tawdry disclosures and investigations addressing every aspect of a widening scandal may well last for weeks.
A worsening economy and widening inequality have spurred more people to become more engaged and take an interest in the activities of companies and those who run them.
But UK support had a catch: British leaders, reluctant to accept the EU’s long-stated goal of an “ever-closer union” – which implies political unification and shared national and federal sovereignty – made no secret of their desire to use the widening of EU membership to prevent the deepening of European integration.
China also promised to establish two industrial parks, in Gujarat and Maharashtra, as well as provide greater market access to Indian products, in an effort to allay India’s worries over the widening bilateral trade deficit, which has soared from $1 billion in 2001 to more than $40 billion today.
In Finland, Austria, Holland, Hungary, Greece, and elsewhere, anti-European parties and more traditional Euroskeptics are benefiting from growing disillusion with Europe’s institutions, the remedies used to combat Europe’s ongoing economic crisis, and the widening division between the European Union’s north and south.
If our societies are run according to the greed principle, with the rich doing everything to get richer, the growing resource crisis will lead to a widening divide between the rich and the poor – and quite possibly to an increasingly violent struggle for survival.
Indeed, there is no greater threat to humanity’s well-being than the ongoing water crisis, which is worsening as pollution and climate change, combined with accelerating growth in human population – forecast by the United Nations to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 – fuel a widening gap between supply and demand.
Economic stagnation and widening inequality have contributed to a surge in xenophobia and nationalism in the advanced countries, exemplified by the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union and the election of US President Donald Trump – and now his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
In India, widening a two-lane road could incite popular protests and be tied up in court for years.
Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.
Inequality leads to weak demand; widening inequality weakens demand even more; and, in most countries, including the US, the crisis has only worsened inequality.
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