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The reality is that Spain now faces the daunting challenge of boosting productivity amid persistently low inflation, a heavy
burden
of domestic and external debt, restrictive macroeconomic policies, and serious demographic challenges.
Given annual global GDP of $74 trillion, the incremental $6 trillion of investment over 25 years represents only a small economic
burden.
On this view, if fiscal austerity relieves households of the
burden
of future tax increases, they will increase their spending.
Trump recently suggested that the US should negotiate with its creditors to buy back much of its debt at a discount – in effect, a partial default on trillions of dollars of liabilities, intended to reduce the
burden
of debt service for taxpayers.
Given this experience, it should understand the importance of cutting a country’s debt when the
burden
of servicing it becomes unsustainable.
Merkel now must step in to save Greece as part of the eurozone – and that means easing the country’s debt
burden.
The economic and social
burden
on countries such as Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Pakistan, all of which are being asked to house large numbers of refugees, is immense.
A third component of any comprehensive approach to refugees involves allocating economic resources to help deal with the
burden.
This policy has long been a burden, both on EU consumers, because it has kept food prices high, and on EU taxpayers, because the subsidy to farmers' incomes costs the Union some e(Euro) 41bn every year (about $40bn), or around half of the total EU budget.
Others chafe at the
burden
of US bases, particularly on the island of Okinawa.
By contrast, spending reductions could undermine economic activity and increase, not decrease, the public-debt
burden.
And investment in health care systems in low- and middle-income countries can help them to adapt to the increasing
burden
of lifelong diseases such as diabetes.
Since private debts have a way of turning into public liabilities, a low government-debt
burden
might not, in fact, provide these countries with the cushion that they think they have.
The subsequent stigma often is a heavier
burden
than the assault itself.
The revised British law continues to place the
burden
of proof on the defense.
Moreover, the rate of flow must be regulated, and economists need to develop a way to ensure equitable
burden
sharing among countries.
The EU’s next five decades, on the other hand, will see the baby boomers moving into retirement, leaving a shrunken labor force with the heavy
burden
of supporting their elders’ health care and pension needs.
Europe needs working-age people to reduce the
burden
of a burgeoning elderly population, so relaxing immigration restrictions could help.
Lowering the tax
burden
on firms – including the payroll tax – would also be useful.
The EU is hopeless at
burden
sharing.
Because the overwhelming majority of medical and pharmaceutical research is directed toward products that affect people in affluent countries, it targets only part of the global
burden
of disease.
If the Health Impact Fund could be adequately financed, it would provide incentives to develop products in proportion to their impact in reducing the global
burden
of disease.
Some politicians fear the
burden
that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers.
Now that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government has been forced to acknowledge the unqualified priority of debt servicing, and can now benefit from unlimited monetary support from the ECB, Greece should have little problem supporting its debt burden, which is no heavier than Japan’s or Italy’s.
But it would also be less easy to reject a call for greater
burden
sharing in the world.
As a result, emerging countries, according to the IMF, have been pressed to carry “a disproportionate
burden
of demand rebalancing since the crisis.”
These impacts will clearly hit the planet’s worst-off inhabitants hardest: the “bottom billion” who already bear the heaviest
burden
of disease, poverty, conflict and malnutrition.
Both Italy and Germany thus have a strong interest in finding a European approach, one that strengthens the EU’s capacity to guard its external borders, perhaps via a European Coast Guard, while distributing the
burden
of accepting refugees more equitably across the Union.
That means putting together a package that responds to Germany’s priorities – namely, ensuring fiscal stability and securing limits on bank holdings of sovereign debt – while helping to ease the
burden
on Italy of guarding the EU’s external border and admitting refugees.
High energy prices are a boon to Russia’s economy, but, as is often the case in the Middle East and other oil- and gas-rich regions, they can be a
burden
as well, feeding corruption and discouraging real economic activity.
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