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In Sri Lanka, for example, rice yields could drop by up to 20% by 2050; in Fiji, cassava output could plummet by 36%.
It will begin to happen as the massive “fiscal stimulus” enacted in 2009 comes to an end, the political process begins to deliver spending cuts, and economic growth yields more tax revenue.
To accommodate this approach, the People’s Bank of China should adjust monetary policy to lower government-bond yields.
Maize yields, for example, are set to decline by one-quarter over the course of the twenty-first century.
With only paltry yields on offer at home, investors have looked to riskier, “frontier” markets for higher returns.
As a result, bringing down yields on government, corporate, and asset-backed bonds has less impact.
Another factor impeding QE’s impact in the eurozone is low bond yields, which, by increasing measured pension-fund deficits, make some companies reluctant to invest and thus more likely to raise contribution rates and limit pension benefits.
For example, drawing on data from various government agencies, the Climate Corporation (recently bought for $1 billion) has taken 30 years of weather data, 60 years of data on crop yields, and 14 terabytes of information on soil types to create customized insurance products.
Crop yields in the region lag far behind global averages, in part because women are unable to invest enough in their operations.
Bond yields could spike, and no amount of reassurance by the ECB and Europe’s leaders would suffice to bring them down from stratospheric levels, because the world now knows that they will not do “whatever it takes.”
If one assumes that this wealth yields 8% per year, the annual income of the world’s 50 wealthiest people is close to the total income of the poorest one billion – in other words, those living below the poverty line.
Similarly, screening for loose, eccentric thinking yields mostly individuals who never become psychiatrically disordered.
Sooner or later, the gap between bond yields and nominal GDP growth will presumably close.
But what about bond yields?
Even when investors accept the intellectual case for much higher bond yields, regulatory impositions on banks and pension funds, together with quantitative easing in Japan and Europe and other forms of financial repression, will ensure continuing demand for government bonds at prices far above any reasonable estimate of fundamental values.
They buy Russian stocks, but only for the sizeable dividend yields – not for shareholder influence.
A Red Cross-led mangrove restoration project in Vietnam not only reduced damage to dykes and other built infrastructure, but also resulted in higher aquaculture yields and thus more income for the local communities.
In many regions around the world, crop yields are only a fraction of US levels – even in agricultural zones with similar climate, soils, and other production conditions.
In the US, it is common to see a gap of around 20% between test plots and actual yields in the same area.
All it takes is a little more will to challenge large incumbents whose position rarely yields optimal social and economic outcomes.
Breaking up monopolies often yields dramatically lower prices and thus higher living standards for consumers, because the same wage buys a lot more.
Prices of bank shares and the Euribor-OIS spread (a measure of financial stress) signal a profound lack of confidence in the sovereign debt of distressed countries, with yields on ten-year Greek bonds recently hitting 25%.
Thus, it is disturbing to see the refusal of policymakers, particularly in the US and Germany, to even contemplate such action, despite available fiscal space (as record-low treasury-bond yields and virtually every other economic indicator show).
But now, with long-term bond yields already close to zero, it could not even be tried.
The burgeoning fishery and aquaculture sector is benefiting from species with better yields and greater resistance to disease and stress.
Even we economists who believe that global financial innovation yields huge net benefits must admit that today’s hedge fund boom is becoming like the tech bubble.
Price-to-earnings ratios in the US are 50% above the historic average, private-equity valuations have become excessive, and government bonds are too expensive, given their low yields and negative term premia.
The mechanics are familiar: dollar liquidity flees to emerging countries in search of higher yields, putting upward pressure on their currencies.
The era of cheap or zero-interest money that led to a wall of liquidity chasing high yields and assets – equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities – in emerging markets is drawing to a close.
Given this, we should expect Greek debt yields to rise further, despite the current IMF program.
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