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We’ve heard from globalization’s victims in developed countries, where most people have seen no income gains in more than a decade.
As the government attempted to direct these gains toward wealth redistribution, public expenditure rose and the social-benefits system – underpinned by so-called “acquired rights” – became increasingly rigid.
Exporters may also choose to pocket any gains, rather than seek to expand market share.
But in striving to achieve that goal, we must not risk the domestic equality gains that two centuries of social progress have delivered.
For example, collective bargaining not only balances the distribution of productivity gains between employees and employers, but also serves as an institutional platform for resolving labor disputes.
Historically, there is no question that technological innovation and global commerce have underpinned rapid material progress and dramatic gains in living standards.
In short, real gains in productivity due to the New Economy became exaggerated in the public’s mind.
Real median household income is still nearly 7% below its 2007 peak, real median household net worth dropped by 35% between 2005 and 2010 (and remains significantly below its pre-recession peak), and about 90% of the income gains during the recovery have gone to the top 1%.
At other times, they will propel economic transformation and poverty reduction, as they have done on a massive scale in China, generating gains not just for the home economy but also for consumers worldwide.
Many people view the superstar city theory as confirming their hunch that, despite the current slowdown in home prices elsewhere (particularly in the United States), investors can expect to make huge long-term gains by buying homes in these cities, even though the homes there are already expensive.
The huge rise in government spending from 2006 to the 2009-2013 period did produce employment gains, but they were not sustained.
This translates into the United States and others spelling out the gains Palestinians can expect in a peace agreement with Israel and what Sunnis and Shia can reasonably expect in Iraq’s new political order.
As a result, outsize gains in asset markets – and the related risks of new bubbles – are needed to make a meaningful difference for the real economy.
Second, wealth effects are maximized when debt service is minimized – that is, when interest expenses do not swallow the capital gains of asset appreciation.
That will reverse some of the dollar’s recent gains and shield growth and inflation from downside risks.
Brexit in a Brave New WorldBRUSSELS – When it comes to bilateral trade, gains and losses are distributed asymmetrically between the larger and the smaller economy.
But growth has been unbalanced: Europe and Japan - despite some recent gains - are far from reaching their potential, and the United States and China have continued largely to drive the world economy.
The euro gave these countries access to cheap credit, which was used to finance wage increases that were not underpinned by productivity gains.
In the United States, despite GDP growth, most citizens are worse-off today than they were before the crisis, because income gains since then have gone almost entirely to those at the top.
Only when a transfer of competencies to the supranational level leads to efficiency gains that exceed the welfare losses due to centralization should national and regional responsibility be replaced by the supranational.
Japan’s productivity slump permeates the entire economy; labor and capital productivity gains have nearly stalled in almost every sector – even in Japan’s signature advanced manufacturing industries.
Putin’s gains there – arranging for chemical disarmament by June of this year, or orchestrating the Geneva talks on ending the civil war – have no beneficial endgame for Russia.
And yet the penny has not dropped in London that focusing European investment funds accordingly would create opportunities to build stronger businesses and increase competitiveness in the technologies of the future – and to share these gains within and beyond the EU.
But realizing these economy-wide gains while providing a secure and portable safety net for all workers will require new ways of thinking by companies and policymakers.
Similarly, vaccination has been shown to lead to wage gains across populations, while improvements in child survival rates are associated with lower fertility rates.
And, in terms of the wider gains, one study found that a five-year improvement in life expectancy can translate into a 0.5-percentage-point increase in annual per capita income growth.
But, despite these gains in expanding the food supply, at least 805 million people still go hungry every day, of whom some 791 million live in developing countries.
The economic gains of reducing micronutrient deficiencies are estimated to have a cost/benefit ratio of almost 1:13.
Competitiveness gains and rebalancing would fail to materialize, and, after an initial flash in the pan, the eurozone would return to permanent crisis.
Otherwise, he argued, the country’s economic gains would be lost.
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