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It is intuitively plausible that refugees could be drawn to countries with faster, more generous asylum procedures.
This may be one reason why European countries support more generous – and costlier – welfare transfers than the US.
And that’s before the coming deluge from generous public employee pensions and health costs.
But the world, too, must be generous and steady in assisting Nepal to sustain the still fragile success of a remarkable peace process.
The idea that such a government would accept terms even more generous toward the Palestinians than the Clinton peace parameters sounds like science fiction.
It will take firm support and generous assistance to give Ukraine the chance to repel Russian aggression and join the community of democratic, liberal, and prosperous countries.
Indeed, the generous plea deal makes it clear that Flynn is prepared to name figures higher than he was in the campaign and the White House.
Sixth, the EU must offer far greater support to countries that host refugees, and it must be more generous in its approach to Africa.
The difficulty with implementing this policy has been that its preventive aspects – social support and reintegration of delinquents – appear to the frightened population living in the affected areas as being “soft on crime” and overly generous.
Since the second half of the 1980’s, when net emigration abruptly reversed, Spain has experienced high levels of structural unemployment, even when annual growth was above 4%, in part owing to the high quality and generous provisions of Spain’s social-welfare system, which was also consolidated in the post-Franco period.
Moreover, all of Greece’s structural problems – a thin tax base, large numbers of government employees who receive bonus payments, and generous pension benefits – cannot be sustained within the eurozone.
While this is not a particularly generous proportion of rich-country income (roughly one-fourth of one percent of their combined gross national products), it is a lot of money just the same.
For example, when the major government contractor Carillion recently filed for bankruptcy, it revealed that it has a £590 million ($826 million) pension deficit, despite having paid out generous dividends in recent years.
But for this to happen, countries with traditionally generous refugee programs should come forward and offer more places to receive Iraqis.
Should the US not take the lead, the only hope is that other countries will be more generous.
But they thought that by providing rock-bottom interest rates and generous liquidity conditions in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, they could push investment and consumption upward.
With generous support from America, we built a robust community of democracies, whose economic wealth and political liberty helped us stand firm in the face of tyranny.
Many African governments, desperate to attract foreign-direct investment, engage in an ill-informed race to offer the most generous tax incentives.
Reform of Germany’s generous social system has claimed the front pages for German papers for more than ten years.
If immigration countries suffer from chronic unemployment because wages are overly generous and rigid, as seems the case in most West European countries, migrants who find work will simply displace nationals from their jobs.
As a result, Sunni-led governments that had enjoyed Western support in exchange for generous oil deals – notably, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – became enemies of the Shia and their quest, backed by Iran, to regain their dignity and identity.
Some countries, like the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, and Australia, are increasing their foreign-aid budgets; others, even traditionally generous donors like Japan and the Netherlands, have reduced theirs.
From time to time, we should step back and celebrate the achievements that come with having the right goals, the necessary political will, generous aid, and innovation in tools and their delivery.
We are beginning to appreciate that in our productive years we must work harder, because our retirement years will be longer and healthier, and the income support provided by our governments and employers will be far less generous than they used to be.
Its weakness is somewhat surprising: real incomes are up, and the coalition government that came to power last year has introduced a series of generous welfare measures, including a large increase in the minimum wage, a reduction of the retirement age, and a special top-up pension for women with children.
In the US, more generous assumptions regarding discount rates are used to calculate pension-fund liabilities.
Even a slowdown will not be enough so long as governments accommodate unwarranted real wage gains (and the resulting unemployment) with generous income support.
There were so many generous subsidies, grants, and transfer payments – aimed at everyone from the truly needy to artists unable to sell their work – that after-tax wages were often barely higher than benefits.
Whether one considered the Dutch welfare state humane and generous, or bloated and foolhardy, its largesse took a heavy toll on the economy.
In the absence of generous mutual support, there was an aura of last-ditch desperation when, in March 2015, the European Central Bank announced an ambitious program of purchasing government debt.
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