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The aim of development zones in frontline countries should thus be to generate
benefits
for both refugees and the host communities.
There is growing recognition that GDP – which was not intended to measure economic welfare – conflates social costs and benefits, neglects many non-market costs and benefits, and ignores the distribution of income.
But spending more on, say, public-sector jobs would bring only temporary benefits; in the long term, such spending would weaken work incentives and undermine corporate investment, which is already on the decline.
The repeal of restrictive legislation has practical benefits, in addition to extending individual liberty.
UN member states have acknowledged migration’s many benefits, including its role in stabilizing global labor markets, spreading knowledge and ideas, creating diasporas that spur increased trade and investment, and sustaining economies worldwide through remittances, which pay for family members’ health care, education, and housing back home.
But these
benefits
are easily squandered if, as we’ve seen recently with crises in the Mediterranean Sea, the Andaman Sea, the Central American corridor, the Sahel, and the Horn of Africa, migration is not governed responsibly and cooperatively.
Meanwhile, countries, migrants, and host communities all lose out as they bear the costs of migration without realizing its
benefits.
Policymakers should maximize migration’s economic benefits; facilitate legal channels so that migrants don’t choose illegal alternatives; reduce barriers for employment and remittances; manage irregular migration flows; and protect migrants’ safety, especially in war zones or when migration reaches crisis levels, as it has this year.
We need only recognize that migration
benefits
us all to maximize the gains and minimize the pain.
Its program of slashing welfare
benefits
for immigrants is marketed as a "defense of the welfare system" against interlopers.
The resolution calls on the 182 CITES member countries to protect the interests of wildlife as well as to provide tangible
benefits
for the poor and rural communities.
With investment and proper management, wastewater can become a sustainable source of wealth for many Africans, with added
benefits
for human health, agricultural productivity, and environmental sustainability.
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, MIT’s Andrew McAfee, Lili Cheng of Microsoft, and other AI optimists assure us that AI will bring great benefits, one cannot help but think of Epimetheus and Elpis.
Recent polls suggest that optimism about the potential
benefits
of AI has dropped significantly among those who are actually developing AI systems.
To be sure, there are excellent reasons for taxing profits in order to fund
benefits
for the poor, and for worker-ownership schemes.
They would have a permanent right to live in Israel and would retain the
benefits
to which they are currently entitled as Israeli citizens, but they would now vote as citizens of Palestine.
All other Palestinians living in Israel would have rights and
benefits
only under Palestinian law.
On the contrary, a crash makes the dream of ownership more affordable, which
benefits
first-time buyers – typically the young and less well-off.
As long as a boom lasts, everybody
benefits.
Then, on December 5, the US Congress voted unanimously to adopt the Taylor Force Act, which blocks aid to the Palestinian Authority from 2018 to 2024, unless the PA stops paying monthly salaries and other
benefits
to the families of killed or convicted Palestinian militants.
No technology is as effective at storing carbon as tropical forests, and saving and restoring them offers one of the cheapest large-scale forms of emissions abatement or capture, while providing a host of other environmental and social
benefits.
The trust agreement could allow the donor group to participate in the governance of the trust and thus have a say in the distribution of any
benefits.
In this view, the human genome is a common heritage of humankind and a global public good whose
benefits
should be shared with all.
Benefit-sharing may be fair in that it includes giving special assistance to research participants, such as access to medical care or to new treatments stemming from the research, but it may be unfair in failing to define the recipients of such
benefits.
In addition, the model bears an arbitrary element, as the sharing of
benefits
is not subject to control by the donors of tissue, much less to democratic control, and may prove self-serving for universities and industry.
While universities and industry may be wary of taxation, they might prefer a tissue tax over endless negotiations with countless tissue donors over the sharing of uncertain future
benefits.
In fact, given the interconnectedness of today’s global economy, better education in one country can bring
benefits
far beyond regional borders.
While a nation has a clear interest in the
benefits
of free and open trade, it also has a vital interest in its citizens’ safety.
Outsourcing keeps terrorists – and other foreigners who would get expensive welfare subsidies – at bay without sacrificing the
benefits
of globalization.
Atkinson’s findings point to a central question: Who
benefits
from growth – the many or the few?
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