Yet, historically, the U.S. has not taken on
major fiscal policy changes and significantly increased debt this late in the expansionary period.
Not exact matches
Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new
policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn, drive
major changes in thinking about
fiscal and monetary
policy.
But we do not believe the ECB will contemplate a
major change in direction, since in the continued absence of a significant
fiscal stimulus, the region's economic performance remains too weak for the central bank to risk measures that could create, however inadvertently, a degree of tightening in monetary
policy.
Thus, he is in a position to anticipate not only
major shifts in social and
fiscal policy, but also smaller cultural
changes.
Be wary of
major changes in
fiscal policy which would
change the model, although gridlock makes this unlikely.
It suggests three
major changes: 1) project and
policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a
major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate
change and
fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.