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Germany will just keep squeezing their budgets in order to ensure that its banks are repaid.
At the opposite extreme are the debt-ceiling absolutists who want governments to start balancing their budgets tomorrow (if not yesterday).
Of course, there is an appealing logic to saying that governments should have to balance their budgets just like the rest of us; unfortunately, it is not so simple.
It is quite right to argue that governments should aim only to balance their budgets over the business cycle, running surpluses during booms and deficits when economic activity is weak.
The G20 countries, which collectively account for most of the world’s population and resources, should lead by translating the SDGs into national policies, and by harnessing government budgets and their private sectors to drive implementation.
The danger now is that Macron will achieve only a token eurozone budget in exchange for even tighter controls on national budgets, which would prove economically harmful and politically poisonous.
It would be counterproductive to focus on treating the symptoms, only to realize later that the unprecedented budgets for structural policies are neither economically efficient nor politically acceptable.
The organization’s budget is vast but – like all budgets – limited.
One key barrier to agreement is the perennial conflict over the appropriate burden of defense on national budgets – a conflict that is particularly intense in today’s environment of fiscal anxiety.
In an attempt to recapture his former popularity, Putin implemented salary increases for teachers, doctors, and police officers, putting regional budgets under strain in the process.
In the first scenario, a more united and homogeneous Europe emerges from the crisis, enforcing greater restrictions on member states’ budgets to reduce apparent risk.
But, under normal circumstances, national public-sector budgets already perform the stabilizing role automatically – through unemployment insurance, progressive taxation, and the like – and this is a derived role, not the primary objective.
As a result, navies are often among the first to be targeted by cuts in defense budgets.
After all, the goal is not to inflate budgets, but to reallocate resources in ways that will ultimately boost citizens’ satisfaction and prosperity.
Finally, note that large excess savings and balanced government budgets necessarily mean large trade surpluses – and thus the increasing reliance of Germany, and Europe, on massive net exports to the United States and Asia.
It would be even worse if European ministers, frustrated with gridlock over exchange rates, started sharing ideas for creatively managing their budgets to stimulate short-term demand, rather than long-term growth.
But bad schools are not the result of skimpy education budgets.
Moreover, development and emergency aid can achieve much more when pooled than when split into separate national budgets.
Moreover, they doubt local governments’ ability to manage their budgets properly and to use the additional tax revenues efficiently.
With government budgets already overstretched, coping with the intensifying health burden from AMR will be difficult, to say the least.
Unfortunately, it lacks the marketing muscle and advertising budgets that have powered the dramatic growth of the bottled-water industry.
Any other course, they say, spells disaster; balancing budgets as soon as possible is the only way back to prosperity.
To put that number into context, the annual budgets of two countries with similar-size populations, the Czech Republic and Sweden, are $74 billion and $250 billion, respectively.
In assessing the size of the stimulus, countries will balance the cost to their own budgets with the benefits in terms of increased growth and employment for their own economies.
Viewed through the traditional ODA prism, with its one-year budgets, public-finance constraints, and competing national priorities, there seems little cause for optimism.
Banks’ balance sheets would receive an immediate boost, as would the heavily indebted countries’ budgets.
Recovery will require major shifts in trade imbalances, technologies, and public budgets.
Moreover, some countries continue to pursue fiscal austerity, instead of consolidating their budgets by, say, addressing large-scale tax avoidance and evasion by major companies and wealthy individuals.
Over time, it will save hundreds of millions of lives (and save governments’ health-care budgets huge sums).
Still, European governments typically complain about the lack of fiscal resources to support R&D (a far fetched argument given the miniscule share of research spending in the oversized European budgets) and, whenever the European Commission allows them, they subsidize innovative firms, or those that they think are more likely to invest in R&D.
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