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According to MGI, 58% of the gains in the Asia-Pacific region would come from raising the female-to-male ratio of labor-force participation, 17% from increasing women’s work hours, and the remaining 25% from having more women working in higher-productivity sectors.
The Islamists will likely see further gains.
Productivity gains have been sluggish for nearly 15 years, and the country’s export basket is the same as it was in the 1980’s.
The Soviet Union had become too decrepit to hold on to its post-World War II gains or even its pre-war frontiers.
Indeed, measured GDP and gains in human welfare eventually may become entirely divorced.
Unit labor costs reflect compensation levels and productivity: gains in productivity can offset the effect of wage growth.
Reversing the large differential in unit labor costs that has emerged in the euro’s first decade thus requires not only wage restraint and productivity-enhancing reforms in the south, but also higher wage gains in the north.
In short, internal adjustment in the eurozone is achievable without serious deflation in the south, provided that productivity growth there accelerates, and that the north does its part by encouraging modestly faster wage gains.
For example, Congress turned his proposed tax cut for dividends into one for capital gains.
Yet one does not have to be a follower of Jorg Haider or the late Pim Fortuyn to know that, whatever the gains have been, whether in terms of economic growth or even the widening of cultural experience in the West, much has and is being lost.
The world must think and act together to preserve the huge gains to human health and wellbeing that antibiotics have enabled.
The economic gains of the last few decades have not been shared widely enough.
More progressive tax and transfer policies will also be needed, in order to ensure that the income and wealth gains from automation are more equitably shared.
One area where some host cities – but not all – can actually realize long-term gains is in infrastructure spending.
For example, the gains from labor mobility have not been equally sharedbetween educated and uneducated migrants.
The gains are much higher for skilled workers, so the mobility rate increases with education.
In a monetary union, discrepancies in wage growth relative to productivity gains – that is, unit labor costs – will result in a chronic accumulation of trade surpluses or deficits.
These gains are essential to countries’ ability to achieve the targets set by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
They expect Lula to accomplish the equivalent of Nixon's trip to China--to be the leftist who hard-headedly balances Brazil's budget, eliminates foreign investors' fear of debt repudiation via hyperinflation, and gives them fat capital gains on their Brazilian stocks and bonds.
Brazil is weighed down by costly consumer credit and real-wage gains that have been outpacing productivity growth.
Eventually, capitalism transformed itself and its gains began to be shared more widely.
But whereas these vectors of economic competition increase total national income, they do not necessarily distribute income gains in a socially acceptable way.
Liberalizing policies are justified in theory only by the assumption that political decisions will redistribute some of the gains from winners to losers in socially acceptable ways.
If trade, competition, and technological progress are to power the next phase of capitalism, they will have to be paired with government interventions to redistribute the gains from growth in ways that Thatcher and Reagan declared taboo.
Rapidly expanding global trade, combined with an ever-freer and faster exchange of people and ideas, has been a cornerstone of this growth, particularly of the strong productivity gains that underlie it.
Moreover, it would allow China to maximize its gains from burgeoning trade among developing economies, which surged from 8% of global trade in 1990 to 24% in 2011.
There are significant efficiency gains to be had by settling transactions in trading partners’ currencies, without the intermediation of, say, the US dollar.
That is in addition to explicit tax hikes on income, capital gains, and dividends, the implicit ones on energy via cap-and-trade, etc.
The TPP’s mega-regional approach can bring greater economic gains than a bilateral deal, as it spurs trade and investment flows – including by harmonizing regulations and standards – across a larger swath of the global economy.
This disturbing development – a byproduct of the failed “global war on drugs” – threatens to reverse recent economic and social gains in our region.
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