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Rather than supporting R&D with large defense budgets, they prefer to do it directly, subsidizing French high-tech firms.
The official justification is that national defense budgets are too small to create the demand that would be needed to support R&D in high-tech sectors, while there is still no European defense budget.
But many European countries still refuse to accept that some of their high-tech firms might not make it: better, they think, to keep them alive with generous subsidies, and in the meantime avoid the consolidation of EU defense budgets.
The idea is that every time the financial system is in trouble, it receives a great deal of support from central banks and government budgets.
As European military leaders engaged in the operation discuss publicly the limitations of their budgets, it is easy to see why he raised the issue.
Making matters worse, many in Congress have spent the last six years chipping away at it, such as by exempting auto dealers from the CFPB and restricting the budgets of the regulatory agencies.
The best response would be to enact strong controls on budgets, together with structural reforms to promote growth.
But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.
But if foreign-aid budgets are cut, and financing mechanisms as effective and innovative as the Global Fund are starved of resources, the “1%” will have much more to worry about than the Occupy movement.
It includes actors as diverse as bankers electronically transferring sums larger than most national budgets, as well as terrorists transferring weapons or hackers disrupting Internet operations.
Budgets are close to balance, with less public expenditure and lower tax rates, while economic growth has recovered.
At the same time, a doubling of energy costs takes a significant bite out of US households’ budgets, with energy costs directly accounting for about 6.5% of consumer spending.
The ECB continues to be exclusively preoccupied by inflation and budgets – problems which the United States solved almost ten years ago during the Bush administration and which also in Europe continue to obsess us only by reason of limited intellectual agility.
What is needed is broad and effective oversight of public procurement, fuller transparency regarding budgets and routines, and substantially upgraded, multi-agency monitoring of national borders to dismantle illicit networks involving the security sector.
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.
The financial crisis is long forgotten, public budgets are under control; and the 2015 influx of migrants has been relatively well managed.
The Germans have been insisting on institutional change – more centralized eurozone control over periphery banks and government budgets in exchange for expanded access to financing for the periphery.
Only when it was too late did seemingly solid national budgets come under substantial pressure.
Globally, such subsidies, like those offered by the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, draining budgets and often doing nothing for the poor.
Obama’s projected budgets do not change that.
Budgetary Wishful ThinkingCAMBRIDGE – Why do many countries find it hard to control their budgets?
Developing nations lavish their limited resources on hospitals, which consume more than 50% of healthcare budgets in many poor countries.
It is an argument for temporary transfers to countries like Spain, which balanced its budgets prior to the crisis but then was hit by the housing slump and recession.
As we engage in furthering our Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement, we should seriously consider reducing the burden of military budgets and forces globally.
Why are the social sciences so much more at risk of having their budgets cut than the other two great bodies of academic knowledge, the humanities and the natural sciences?
We will all pay dearly – in defense budgets and, more important, in lost global opportunities – if we do not summon the courage to design a global order in which non-state actors have a formal role.
The brief appearance of Iran’s disputed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have gained all the headlines, but China’s announcement of a $10 billion fund to support the budgets of financially distressed ex-Soviet states, which followed hard on a $3 billion investment in Turkmenistan and a $10 billion investment in Kazakhstan, provides more evidence that China now wants to shape events across Eurasia.
But budgets are about priorities, and we have clearly made the Asia-Pacific region a priority.
The French like to acclaim the rational rigour of their thinking, but where budgets are concerned, Descartes is out and obfuscation is in.
Ideological aversion to public-sector investment, together with the endemic short-term thinking of those who write budgets, has kept spending on roads, airports, railways, telecommunication networks, and power generation at levels far below what is needed.
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