Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 5 | Opponent: South Eugene KS | Judge: Meera Sehgal
Global Economy rising now due to stabilizing effects but COVID still means that it’s on the brink. Strikes hurt the economy since 1~ they hurt core business industries like automobiles which can have cascading effects and 2~ unstable labor relations can deter investment opportunities which wrecks growth.
The Global Economy is stabilizing and set for increases in 2021 but is still vulnerable to shocks
World Bank 6-8 6-8-2021 "The Global Economy: on Track for Strong but Uneven Growth as COVID-19 Still Weighs" https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/06/08/the-global-economy-on-track-for-strong-but-uneven-growth-as-covid-19-still-weighs
A year and a half since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,
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continues to flare, it will shape the path of global economic activity.
McElroy 19 John McElroy 10-25-2019 "Strikes Hurt Everybody" https://www.wardsauto.com/ideaxchange/strikes-hurt-everybody (MPA at McCombs school of Business)
This creates a poisonous relationship between the company and its workforce. Many GM hourly
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be a better way to get workers a raise without torching the countryside.
2~ Strikes create a stigmatization effect over labor and consumption that devastates the Economy
Tenza 20, Mlungisi. "The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a developing country: a case of South Africa." Obiter 41.3 (2020): 519-537. (Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal)
When South Africa obtained democracy in 1994, there was a dream of a better
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with a GDP declined by 0.72 and 0.78.32
Babb No Date Katrina Babb "Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of Unions" http://isu.indstate.edu/conant/ecn351/ch11/chapter11.htm (Professor of Economic at Indiana State)
Strikes Simple statistics on strike activity suggest that strikes are relatively rare and the
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to attribute all of the costs associated with a strike to labor alone.
Tønnesson 15, Stein. "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review 18.3 (2015): 297-311. (the Department of Peace and Conflict, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Peace research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway)
Several recent works on China and Sino–US relations have made substantial contributions to
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each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene.
08 recovery isn’t possible anymore
Econ crisis + populism and threats cause miscalc and wars
International system already fragile, draws in major powers
Similar nationalism to the 30s
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War had begun as the Axis powers challenged the earlier entrenched colonial powers.