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During the Rouseff years, Brazil’s growth rate was 2.6 percentage points lower than the Latin American regional average, leading to a loss of fiscal discipline, a reversal of development gains, and growing popular discontent.
As Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik frequently points out, economic theory predicts that removing tariffs and non-tariff barriers does produce net gains; but it also results in large redistributions, wherein eliminating smaller barriers yields larger redistributions relative to the net gains.
Governments must take action, complementing their pro-growth policies with policies aimed at ensuring that the gains are shared much more equally and sustainably.
Indeed, in Greece’s recent elections, after five years of recession and 20% unemployment, extremist parties from both ends of the political spectrum made substantial electoral gains.
If Gulf leaders are serious about avoiding social unrest, they should take advantage of gains from today’s high oil prices to finance labor-market and intellectual-property reforms, thereby encouraging private-sector growth and providing greater opportunity for all.
Indeed, the dangerous effects of climate change threaten to undo the development gains that the MDGs helped to achieve.
The largest gains from globalization have not only accrued to the middle and upper classes in Asia, but also to the top 1% of earners worldwide.
The income gains from GDP growth have been mostly concentrated in the upper quartile of the distribution.
Prior to the crisis, the wealth effect produced by high asset prices mitigated downward pressure on consumption, just as low interest rates and quantitative easing since 2008 have produced substantial gains in asset prices that, given weak economic performance, probably will not last.
Otherwise, the competitiveness gains would be offset by rising inflation.
Since 2007, labor costs have roughly stagnated in Greece, Spain, and Portugal (though the mix of wage cuts and productivity gains varies from country to country), and have contracted by 8% in Ireland, whereas they have increased by more than 10% in Germany.
It is estimated that increasing migration by just 3% of the workforce in developed countries between 2005 and 2025 would generate global gains of $356 billion, more than two-thirds of which would accrue to developing countries.
Opening borders completely could produce gains as high as $39 trillion for the world economy over 25 years.
Huge gains in disease control and prevention were made last year, and the next few items on my list (11 through 16) reflect progress on specific illnesses.
Wrapping up my list of disease-specific gains of 2017 is the renewed commitment made by global health ministers to eradicate tuberculosis by 2030.
In all these areas and more, traditional textbook arguments about the gains from trade apply: new export opportunities lead to higher wages and a lower cost of living.
At the same time, some countries will enjoy temporary gains, owing to longer growing seasons and increased access to minerals, hydrocarbons, and other resources in polar regions.
Germany is not the only European country where right-wing populists have made electoral gains in recent years.
The super-rich have received round after round of tax cuts and special tax breaks, easy credits from central banks, and exceptional gains from technologies that are boosting profits while lowering unskilled workers’ wages.
The incoming funds, and the subsequent growth and job creation, would undergird the consolidation of democracy – and thus help cement the impressive gains that Tunisia has made so far.
Yes, if a policy decision leads to aggregate gains, losers can in principle be compensated.
This agenda would include completion of the single market to create jobs; a common defense policy in an era in which national budgets cannot meet global ambitions; energy and the environment, where the gains, financial and otherwise, of cooperation could be enormous; the fight against illegal immigration and organized crime; and art, culture, and higher education, where Europe is struggling to match the US.
In some cases, US firms bought the banks, held on to them until Korea recovered, and then resold them, reaping billions in capital gains.
In its rush to have westerners buy the banks, the IMF forgot one detail: to ensure that South Korea could recapture at least a fraction of those gains through taxation.
Only such a presence can consolidate the palpable, but still reversible, gains made over the past year.
Sachs knows the freebies to farmers guarantee gains in the short run, but he’s convinced that African villagers, once freed from “the poverty trap,” can thrive on their own.
At times, it has seemed that gains for animals in Western countries have been outweighed by increasing animal abuse in China, as growing prosperity there boosts demand for animal products.
Consolidating a strong transport network of road, inner waterways, air, and sea would produce a cascading effect while offering significant – and immediate – economic gains by helping to optimize supply chains.
And yet, as impressive as these gains may be, they have not been distributed equally.
If inequality continues to rise, higher growth will be needed to eradicate extreme poverty than if the economic gains were more evenly distributed.
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