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For example, the US Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which was augmented under the 2009 Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act, and the EU’s Globalization Adjustment Fund are small, complex, and expensive measures to compensate displaced workers.
These low-cost measures nurture long-term antifragility, while capturing future upside gains that could compensate for black swan events.
The main beneficiaries of free trade and technological change must actively compensate the losers through taxation, subsidies, and employment support.
Its government seems to pursue a kind of "preventive sour grapes" strategy (one possible meaning of that country’s planned referendum on NATO being, it appears, to allow the Meciar government to be able to say "You may not want us but we were not interested in NATO in the first place"), while also attempting to compensate for exclusion by cultivating ties with Russia.
To compensate for weak private demand, the government increased spending, more than doubling the stock of public debt, to more than 230% of GDP, in just 15 years.
Because market interest rates rise to compensate for high inflation, even the government must now pay an interest rate of about 25% to borrow in pesos for short periods.
The budget deficit is now the largest in the EU, and public debt has ballooned, as the government has struggled to compensate for the steep drop in revenues.
In principle, these changes increase economic efficiency, enabling the winners to compensate the losers.
While still committed to urbanization and services development, China has elected to draw on a new external source of growth to compensate for a shortfall of internal demand.
Russia’s tragic decline into what can only be a protracted period of political uncertainty and economic depression already affects the countries towards its West, spreading economic concerns and raising fears that the big neighbor might compensate for internal weakness by external bullying.
Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, inaugurated the enterprise to compensate for Israel’s strategic vulnerability, a fledgling army, and the West’s unwillingness to enter into a formal alliance to defend the Jewish state.
The failure to compensate the losers was not the result of inadequate global cooperation, either; it was a deliberate domestic policy choice.
So is Berlusconi himself, who favored a weak euro to compensate for Italy’s economic inefficiency and the complete lack of reform during his years in office.
Constrained from spending on the wedding, he would compensate her differently – perhaps with a larger inheritance.
If, however, evidence starts to emerge of export weakness, China can and should compensate with additional steps to boost domestic demand.
Like the great economist John Maynard Keynes before them, Larry Summers and Paul Krugman have advocated a greater role for public spending to compensate for weak private-sector demand.
Before a crisis, they resist regulations and oppose government investment and planning; afterwards, they demand – and receive – billions of dollars to compensate them for their losses, even those that could easily have been prevented.
In order to compensate for the increase in money supply associated with the purchase of dollars, the government issues securities that pay a higher interest rate than the central bank receives for investing its reserves overseas.
The continent needs productivity-enhancing investment in order to compensate for its shrinking workforce; but its demographic weakness is causing companies to hold back.
And even if that does not cause the Fed to raise the federal funds rate at a faster pace, higher inflation by itself will cause investors to demand higher long-term rates to compensate for the loss of their funds’ real value.
But a fundamental proposition in economics holds that when individuals are free to engage in trade, the size of the economic pie increases enough that the winners could, in theory, compensate the losers, leaving everyone better off.
We can take globalization as a given, and adopt measures to help compensate those who might naturally lose out.
A normal German household is not on its last financial legs, and is therefore able to compensate for income losses by adjusting its savings.
For example, the EU’s policy notes that “foreseen flexibility rules” can compensate for “local climatic, cultural, or structural differences.”
Macroeconomic policy can try to compensate through deficit spending and very low interest rates.
Many believe that even if Putin has restored Russia’s status as a “great power,” that does not compensate for rampant corruption and a lack of opportunities at home.
Using monetary policy to compensate for deficiencies in other policy areas constitutes an institutional breakdown: monetary policymakers are not necessarily getting it wrong, but they are constrained by the configuration of other policies.
For example, electricity workers would realize that, as consumers, their gains from lower prices throughout the economy more than compensate them for the loss of rents in their own firms.
They, like other Europeans, are calling upon the past to compensate for the disillusion and frustration of the present and the uncertainty of the future.
There are winners and losers, but the winners from free trade could in principle compensate the losers by enough to make everyone better off.
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