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Indeed, the gains from economic growth are increasingly going to the very highest earners.
Economic gains in recent years have not made the typical worker better off, and as wealthy individuals have reaped the benefits of growth, poverty has become more concentrated.
For this channel to be sustainable, though, the wealth gains must be permanent.
But, in each instance, Bush was limiting his short-term gains in order to pursue long-term stability.
So-called “structural” reforms may help, but the likely gains are small and uncertain.
The second conclusion is that the gross gains – fees, trading profits, and capital gains to the winners (perhaps $800 billion from this year’s M&A’s) – greatly exceed the perhaps $170 billion in net gains.
The idea here is to demonstrate to the electorate that the government can combine capitulation to the troika with its own agenda of reforms, comprising efficiency gains and an assault on the oligarchy that may liberate funds for the purpose of lessening austerity’s impact on weaker Greeks.
In principle, with flexible labor markets, migration creates welfare gains for all countries.
While blue-collar workers incur income losses, their losses will be overcompensated by the gains of landowners, capital owners, entrepreneurs and white collar workers.
While it’s true that tax preferences might yield slightly higher private savings, the loss of tax revenues would more than offset the gains, thereby actually reducing national savings.
Whatever the potential downsides to Trump’s policies, there is one clear upside: they will boost growth and employment in a eurozone where economic dissatisfaction is generating political turmoil – and the gains will be most pronounced in the countries that most need them.
A 12.5% tax is levied on capital gains from government bonds, while entrepreneurs risking their own capital to launch new businesses must pay roughly 50% of their start-up costs in taxes.
And, while affirmative action has also significantly increased women’s political representation, limited political leadership gains have yet to translate into real benefits for women in general.
In this environment, intellectual-property rules can now make or break business models and reshape societies, as they determine how economic gains are shared.
Since the end of a devastating five-year war in 2003, the country has made marked gains.
Yet even Conrad would have been aghast at the windfall gains and rock-bottom tax rates that foreign mining investors have secured over the last decade.
Confronted with the prospect of a US veto, an increasing number of international observers flatly oppose the Palestinian plan, on the grounds that it is unlikely to generate concrete political gains and would merely deflect attention from the main requirement of Middle East peace-making: a return to the negotiating table.
That encouraged investment spending, which in turn drove productivity gains and output growth.
Yet Germany’s corporate sector remains reluctant to borrow and invest in the country, because it sees little reason to expect long-term economic growth, given that the population is set to decline and productivity gains remain anemic.
But these gains remain fragile.
Moreover, property prices are increasing rapidly in some locales, and a few broad share indexes posted double-digit percentage gains over the past year.
Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.
Any adult who was alive in the US during these three decades realizes that this number grossly understates the gains of the typical household.
But if the gains have been worth just 1% a year, over the past 30 years that would cumulate to a gain of 35%.
Taxing TobaccoGENEVA – Over the last ten years, impressive gains have been made in the battle against the tobacco epidemic.
Even a slowdown will not be enough so long as governments accommodate unwarranted real wage gains (and the resulting unemployment) with generous income support.
The precise explanation remains elusive, but the prevailing view is that while the advent of new information technology had some definite positive impact on productivity in the 1990s, the gains have not proved sufficiently long-lived or widespread.
But, though military gains are now visible, “hard” power alone will not be enough to defeat the group.
The question is how to consolidate these gains and nurture progress.
It is a primary driver of GDP growth (especially in countries where labor-force growth is slowing) and income gains.
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