description: the adjustment of economic, political, or social systems on a global scale, often aimed at reducing disparities between countries or regions.
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by James Rickards · 10 Nov 2011 · 381pp · 101,559 words
have been more pleased, and he eagerly set about as the global referee for whatever guidelines the G20 might set. Despite this heady start toward global rebalancing and President Obama’s personal buy-in, two G20 summits came and went in 2010 with no significant progress in the commitments of member nations
by Martin Wolf · 24 Nov 2015 · 524pp · 143,993 words
probably a sizeable part of what we are seeing.25 Managing China’s Inevitable Slowdown The challenge for emerging economies is not just managing the global rebalancing. It is also that of adapting to what might become a big slowdown in the Chinese economy. One of the reasons many emerging economies did
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27). If so, that would certainly have a sizeable impact on commodity exporters, many of which are emerging and developing countries. GLOBAL REBALANCING The emerging economies confront one final challenge: global rebalancing after the crises. They were able to take advantage of strong demand growth in high-income economies before then. Afterwards, they had
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us to one of the biggest issues raised by the argument in this book, particularly in Chapter Five: global rebalancing. GLOBAL REFORM One way out of the apparent demand trap would be via global rebalancing. The evidence at present is that high-income countries are no longer able to absorb the savings that would
by Ian Bremmer · 30 Apr 2012 · 234pp · 63,149 words
safety net for the Greeks, Portuguese, and Spanish. These are policy choices, if unpleasant ones born of necessity, but the world is also facing a global rebalancing between countries like America that consume too much and save too little and those like China that consume too little and save too much. This
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’s most important pivot states. With Europe’s most powerful and resilient economy, Germany might find enough common ground with China during a period of global rebalancing to sharply limit the need for China to partner with America. Nor are G-Zero crises that push America and China closer together necessarily more
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can’t manage the growing social unrest described in the previous chapter, if it can’t cope with a rising tide of environmental disasters, if global rebalancing begins to cost China jobs and to benefit neighboring economies at China’s expense, if a more serious market meltdown inside Europe and the United
by Anatole Kaletsky · 22 Jun 2010 · 484pp · 136,735 words
.) The question of property speculation, on the other hand, demands more attention. House prices have far greater resonance for ordinary people than asset securitization or global rebalancing. Yet the public discussion of the role of housing in the crisis has been misleading and superficial. It is taken as axiomatic in all explanations
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. The bigger challenges to the U.S. and world economies will appear from 2011 onward, when the longer-term problems of government and consumer debt, global rebalancing, and structural inflation may need to be seriously addressed. These are among the issues taken up in the last part of this book. Part V
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trade surpluses and deficits worldwide, the smaller the risk of dangerous inflationary pressures. Unfortunately, as discussed previously in this chapter, the prospects of such a global rebalancing occurring quickly and smoothly do not seem bright. Protectionism and deglobalization therefore could create the conditions for stagflation to return. Big Government From the mid
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in the export industries of Germany, China, and Japan, will make policymakers increasingly wary of this approach. At the same time, the financial imperative of global rebalancing will imply macroeconomic policies in the major importing countries that promote manufacturing industry and exports, rather than consumption, housing, and finance. Slower consumption growth in
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
; agriculture industrial decarbonization, Shah on, 187, 189–90, 192 inequities: climate impacts, 13 disasters/disaster response and, 344, 350 environmental law enforcement inequities, 327–28 global, rebalancing, 145–48 human health, 287, 328, 337, 387n inverse wealth and emissions disparities, 138, 148, 169, 200 land ownership, 59–61, 70–71, 76–79
by Faisal Islam · 28 Aug 2013 · 475pp · 155,554 words
contributors to the USA–China trade deficit. So exporting China’s infrastructure boom around the world is China’s preferred route for the much-vaunted ‘global rebalancing’ agenda. Other post-crisis efforts at rebalancing the global economy have made minimal progress. One leading central banker refers to the discussions at the G20
by Geoff Hiscock · 23 Apr 2012 · 363pp · 101,082 words
What we are experiencing with the transformation of China is a once in a century or more event. It really is the start of a global rebalancing—a rebalancing that will continue to unfold over many decades. —BHP Billiton Chairman Jac Nasser, 9 May 2011 Six hundred years ago, China neither needed
by Andy Kessler · 12 Oct 2009 · 361pp · 86,921 words
from some pieces he and I had coauthored way back when, about technology and the economy, blah blah blah. Mostly, he warned about the coming global rebalancing and labor arbitrage and I started nodding out. “What are you doing here?” Steve came up and asked at the end of his talk. “Slumming