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But, because workers undervalue these benefits, the result is pure tax on formal employment.
By contrast, when firms and workers are informal, workers receive a similar bundle of health and pension
benefits
for free.
This helps to explain why former Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans once quipped that Americans are more likely to believe in Martians than in the
benefits
of free trade.
To be sure, the US government’s agenda would have some
benefits
for Pakistan.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, almost half of the
benefits
from Trump’s proposed tax cuts would go to the top 1% of income earners.
With more than a billion people now traveling by air every year, and with a total of 2.2 billion flights sold, extending the “air tax” approach to a voluntary contributions model would vastly multiply the program’s
benefits.
Such an approach would have a number of
benefits.
This would accelerate the development of the asset-management sector, with far-reaching
benefits
for savers and investors.
The reality, of course, is that whatever costs the US incurs from trade with China are vastly outweighed by the
benefits.
The key question is – and will always be – whether the US is able to upgrade its economic structure and ensure a fairer domestic distribution of the
benefits
of international trade.
The US push for China to let the renminbi appreciate was “a devious attempt” to sustain the “enormous benefits” the US derived, at China’s expense, from the fixed exchange rate.
Lagging countries that fail to promote gender equality, invest in education, and adopt broader governance and regulatory reforms risk falling even further behind in reaping the significant
benefits
of globalization.
Ironically, the political backlash against globalization is gaining momentum in many places even as digitization increases the opportunities and economic
benefits
that globalization has to offer.
The
benefits
would be extraordinary, for both Africa and the rich countries, which would be putting their businesses and skilled workers back to work.
But, while these changes could bring important benefits, the speed of digitization has also created daunting governance challenges, both within and across countries.
Better gender statistics could provide a more detailed understanding of women’s access to justice, education, and finance; improved measures of poverty and inequality could reveal how the
benefits
of economic growth are distributed; and natural capital accounting could uncover the value of resource endowments, thereby helping to ensure that they are used in a rational and sustainable manner.
For another, it prevents developing countries from reaping the full
benefits
of rising commodity prices, though they gain no protection from price downturns.
Only by addressing these trends can the
benefits
of trade be increased and equitably shared.
Trickle-down economics, they claim, will ensure that, ultimately, the entire population
benefits
economically.
The TPP’s strategic value extends far beyond the economic
benefits
it promises.
In my view, the new benchmark will have many benefits, not least for equity analysts who might consider adjusting their stock recommendations on the basis of the AMF’s findings.
These countries should shelve any delusions of finding “black gold,” enjoy the short-run
benefits
of cheap oil, and take action now to align infrastructure investments to changing technology.
And it could make sense to produce a better GDP, which adds uncounted benefits, subtracts the costs of externalities, and excludes activities that generate no wealth.
Thus, swayed both by the uncounted
benefits
from wastewater treatment – estimated at up to $1.75 million a year – and the potential outlay to build a sewage plant, Kampala decided to protect the area.
For example, if the wetland were to be destroyed to make way for a new district, we know that its
benefits
would have to be at least $1.75 million higher than the costs.
In all likelihood, the net
benefits
of job creation and economic growth that could result from creating a new district (in place of the swamp) would be dramatically higher than the $1.75 million.
If green measures are used to shortcut the political process, we can actually end up worse off, because countries will be deprived of jobs, wealth, and welfare, while relatively small environmental
benefits
will be achieved.
Green GDP does include uncounted losses, so it avoids the problem of overestimating our wealth, but it fails to account for the potentially much larger
benefits
of innovation.
In order to reap the
benefits
of European integration, it must be achieved through individual interactions, economic and otherwise, facilitated by the removal of regulatory barriers.
Governments must continue to pay
benefits
to today’s pensioners, and they can do so only by borrowing money to replace the revenues that tomorrow’s pensioners are now diverting to personal insurance schemes.
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