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Weak TFP growth caused Japan’s “lost decade” after the country’s demographic dividend disappeared in the early 1990’s;China must bridge some large gaps if it is to avoid a similar fate.
Princeton University economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson confirm this Democratic dividend in a recent study.
The Cold War’s end, twenty years ago this autumn, was supposed to provide a peace dividend.
In the US, for example, no politician is anxious to say that home-mortgage deductions should be eliminated, or that dividend payments should be tax-free.
The most important factor working in India’s favor is its “demographic dividend.”
After all, there are two reasons to hold an equity claim: because it will pay a dividend or because its price is expected to go up.
For India, rapid urbanization is particularly vital to enable the country to take full advantage of the demographic dividend afforded by its young population.
With 12 million more people joining the country’s labor force every year, the potential of that dividend is huge.
This, in turn, gives him a substantial popularity dividend to add to his store.
As the parliamentary elections showed, it is time that Nigerians receive democracy’s dividend: a government that reflects their interests and responds to their demands.
But May is doing a fine job of undermining herself: her claim that a “Brexit dividend” will partly fund increases in spending on the National Health Service has been widely condemned as a lie.
Another factor that worked in the regime’s favor was the so-called demographic dividend (an abundant labor force and a relatively small percentage of children and elderly dependents).
At the same time, given rapid population aging, China’s demographic dividend has all but dissipated.
The simplest form of growth-linked bonds would be a long-term government security that pays a regular dividend proportional to the GDP of the issuing country.
Suppose that the Argentine government issued perpetual bonds that paid an annual dividend equal to one ten-billionth of Argentine GDP, payable in pesos.
Because Argentina’s annual GDP now runs at about 500 billion pesos, one of these bonds today would pay a dividend of 50 pesos (about $17 or €13) a year.
The dividend would rise or fall as the success of Argentina’s economy is revealed through time.
Perhaps most important, it underscores Rouhani’s hope that the “peace dividend” from the nuclear agreement would be enough to boost lagging domestic demand and offset the impact of fiscal tightening.
Having long since collected the peace dividend, the main protagonists of EDI are still reducing their defense spending: between 1998 and 1999, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom reduced their combined defense expenditure by a further $10 billion dollars.
There is an alternative to a robot tax that is easy to implement and simple to justify: a universal basic dividend (UBD), financed from the returns on all capital.
My Canadian colleague Mark Kamstra and I have proposed issuing shares called “trills,” which would pay a dividend each year equal to a trillionth of that year’s GDP, in domestic currency.
Every year thereafter, the dividend paid would fluctuate in response to changes in GDP.
The trills would most likely have sold for a very high price in 1990, perhaps with a dividend yield under 1%.
Industrialization is the key to helping Africa’s fast-growing population realize a demographic dividend.
The investment boom and the globalization dividend of the last two decades allowed the Party to have its cake and eat it – maintaining its rule on the basis of economic prosperity, while failing to establish the institutions critical to sustaining such prosperity.
A direct attack on poverty can yield a double dividend: in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for direct poverty reduction.
Asia’s growth dividend must not be wasted on military expansion.
With evidence of sudden capital outflows in response to certain tax-policy changes, governments are reluctant to raise income-tax rates – which have fallen sharply since the late 1970’s – or to tax dividend and interest income, for fear of capital flight.
How elusive the peace dividend remains can be seen from the government’s decision to press ahead with the expansion of an already-large military.
India, too, has massive potential to grow fast and reap a demographic dividend, but it has been struggling with structural reform.
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