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But now the 25 member states must deal with the financial consequences of that enlargement, not just in the overall size of the European Union budget for the next seven years, but in who pays and who
benefits.
For example, the US views the Trans-Pacific Partnership – the huge trade agreement involving it, Japan, and 10 other leading Pacific Rim countries – as a technical scheme that will bring economic
benefits
through greater trade.
Social
Benefits
in the Age of UberPARIS – When it comes to compensation, the company you work for often matters more than how good you are at what you do.
But even in advanced economies, where social protection is broad in scope, access to
benefits
is far from equal.
Moreover, some
benefits
– for example, parental leave – are conditional on seniority within a company.
But it should ensure that all participants in the labor force, whatever their status, enjoy equal access to essential benefits; and it should aim at minimizing the losses that impede mobility across firms, sectors, and types of employment.
For fairness as well as for efficiency reasons, rights and
benefits
should be attached to individuals, not to companies or employment status, and should be fully portable across sectors and jobs.
For example, an employee could decide to shorten the duration of his unemployment
benefits
and invest the corresponding points to benefit from better education opportunities.
Such a system would have three additional
benefits.
Employees nowadays are often lost in the complexity of the various social
benefits
to which they are entitled.
Together with information, the possibility to invest their social benefits, rather than only consuming them, would strengthen their autonomy and freedom of choice.
The Social Democrats returned to power in 1994, but they accepted Bildt’s new fiscal policies, and even carried out a revolutionary pension reform in 1998 that properly tied
benefits
to payments.
Investors require above-market rates for renewable power or similar compensation that reflects the social
benefits
of emissions free energy.
Again and again, we seem to choose the dubious luxury of another safari park over the prosaic
benefits
offered by an extra farm.
Top earners in the US, accounting for half of the global top 1%, reaped a significant share of globalization’s
benefits.
They seek to demonstrate the
benefits
that a more sustainable pattern of development can bring to the world’s cities, to people’s health (from the reduction in air pollution), to energy security, and to the ability of the world’s poor to access energy.
To be sure, retrenchment could entail some short-term costs; but the longer-term
benefits
would be much bigger.
A new era of active and varied monetary policy may have begun, with potential
benefits
for all.
Remarkably, the
benefits
continue after birth.
Nonetheless, for those who can supply their babies with at least six months of breast milk, the
benefits
are significant.
Even reforms that cost more – like expanding preschool education in the United States – generate economic
benefits
that far exceed the tax losses associated with funding them.
Specifically, they should expand individual and collective apprentice-based and vocational programs, modernize their methods for measuring performance, and intensify their efforts to include recent research on the
benefits
of cognitive diversity and “superadditivity” in internal and external communications.
The
benefits
of doing so rarely outweigh the costs: lost campaign contributions, accusations of anti-Semitism, charges of betraying a close ally (“the only democracy in the Middle East"), and so on.
Political parties exchange
benefits
and ignore those who elected them.
In an age of strained public budgets and widespread austerity, it is not surprising that politicians finally recognize the potential
benefits
of tackling financial corruption, and British Prime Minister David Cameron should be congratulated for taking a leadership role.
A genuine commitment to increasing financial transparency would carry huge potential
benefits
for the world’s poorest people, while fostering more equitable economic growth worldwide.
Moreover, to reduce income inequality and enhance social mobility, Singapore’s government has increased
benefits
for the socioeconomically disadvantaged and the middle class, including by investing in education and making health care more affordable.
So the EU is now seen as the Trojan horse that threatens the myriad of state-sanctioned
benefits
and handouts that every citizen enjoys.
The challenge is to find a regional role that is compatible with the country’s size, but that does not create mistrust and, at the same time,
benefits
the rest of the region.
Talk to World Bank and WTO officials, and you will get an earful of inflated claims about the
benefits
that a successful Doha round would bring.
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