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Nonetheless, elected officials find a Tobin tax highly appealing, because it could blunt criticism and divert attention from fundamental, but politically paralyzing, problems surrounding economic policy, particularly budgets, debt, and slow growth.
Meanwhile, proposals for pre-adoption assessment of national budgets by the EU have attracted criticism in France and elsewhere, which serves as a reminder of the distance there is between calls for coordination and actual acceptance of its implications.
I hope that the other G-20 leaders do a better job of reining in their budgets.
Reliable statistics were not available in all countries, and for years there was no political will to protect public budgets from the impact of rapidly aging populations on pension and health-care costs.
The financial crisis hit fragile public budgets with full force.
Budgets are prepared in offices far from the intended site of delivery, and bilateral and multilateral programs often establish priorities (like health care, schooling, or poverty reduction) without much input from the receiving country.
Of course, no one wants to break budgets or create dependency.
New Power, New Responsibility calls for “deepening” the European Union through measures that would include democratizing EU financial decision-making by directly engaging national parliamentarians and exchanging tighter European fiscal constraints on member governments’ budgets for a European banking union, a eurozone budget, and Eurobonds.
To this end, they could begin by applying, say, 5% of their procurement budgets to nurture urgently needed solutions in areas with potentially large global markets.
A Window of Opportunity for European DefenseMADRID – With budgets exceptionally tight in Europe nowadays, worries about European defense have been growing.
Voting budgets in parliament – a representative institution – ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.
The hope is that governments putting wellbeing at the center of their agenda will redirect their budgets accordingly.
But countries in the region, fearing a large number of refugees and the impact they might have on government budgets, have opposed such a move.
This represents one of the highest percentages among developing countries anywhere, and I hope that our example will encourage leaders elsewhere to devote at least 20% of their national budgets to education.
Claims that migrants are a drain on national budgets are similarly inaccurate.
But the program remains legally dubious, as it creates a massive shadow budget financed by borrowing that will operate parallel to the EU and national budgets, thereby placing a substantial risk-sharing burden on taxpayers.
Making matters worse, only a fraction of the new borrowing enabled by the mutualization of liability will be factored into national budgets.
In recent years, banks have been berated for using shadow budgets, in the form of special-purpose vehicles and conduits, to take on excessive risk.
And central bankers are right to insist on structural reforms and credible plans for balancing budgets in the long term.
This agenda would include completion of the single market to create jobs; a common defense policy in an era in which national budgets cannot meet global ambitions; energy and the environment, where the gains, financial and otherwise, of cooperation could be enormous; the fight against illegal immigration and organized crime; and art, culture, and higher education, where Europe is struggling to match the US.
Given today’s difficult economic and fiscal conditions, where public-sector investment is likely to be crowded out in national budgets, this program represents a major commitment to growth-oriented public sector investment.
A recent analysis for the US suggests that entitlements programs’ liabilities will hit the public budgets in about ten years.
Nine West African governments spend, on average, just over 1% of their budgets on nutrition.
Post communist states have among the most generous social budgets in the world, when measured as a percent of GDP.
Social budgets tend to claim 15 - 30% of GDP, in comparison with outlays in East Asia of between 5-10% of GDP for social programs.
For their part, state governments, forced by new limits on the deductibility of state and local taxes to pare their budgets, are likely to move further in the direction of limiting the duration of unemployment benefits and the extent of their own food and nutrition assistance.
At a time when rich countries like the United States are running deficits of 12% of GDP because of the global financial meltdown, the IMF has been telling countries like Latvia and Ukraine, which did not start the crisis but have turned to the Fund to help combat it, that they must balance their budgets if they want aid.
This is good news, but we will need to do more to offset the coming loss of US support at a time when budgets are already strained by the fast-increasing humanitarian needs of the world’s other 60 million displaced people, including more than 20 million refugees (a post-World War II record).
Meanwhile, state and local-government budgets are improving, and the federal budget is on track to subtract only about 0.5% from GDP in 2014, compared to 1.75% in 2013.
The non-tradable sector, which created virtually all of the new employment in the two decades prior to the crisis, is stagnating, owing to a shortfall in domestic demand and seriously constrained government budgets.
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