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Economists call this “hysteresis”: Long-term unemployment erodes workers’ skills and human capital; and, because innovation is embedded in new capital goods, low investment leads to permanently lower productivity growth.
As a result, they are far more inclined than their parents to spend on services and nondurable goods.
With looser constraints on household credit, China’s government would enable its young people, like young Americans, to finance their educations and purchase more durable goods.
And larger markets provide a greater incentive for investors and traders to enter, and for governments to provide new public goods.
We look at almost a hundred indicators and define governance in a new way – as the public goods and services that should be provided to citizens.
Abusive transfer pricing – in which legally related entities misprice goods or services – accounts for roughly 60% of the continent’s illicit capital flight, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
That leads to lower prices for the goods and services produced, which in turn leaves consumers with more money to spend on other things, boosting demand – and employment – across nearly all industries.
It is hard to imagine that manufacturers are not now postponing orders of capitals goods, and that new home sales in America are not dropping right now.
Everybody makes such calculations when they decide where to take vacations abroad, so why believe that they do not do it for other goods and services?
UBS, the Swiss banking group, prices a standard basket of 111 goods and services in various cities around the world.
The critical point here is that a retail price includes not only the price of the goods but also distribution costs - wages of shop personnel, rent, advertising, profit margins, etc.
Excluding taxes and contributions paid and transfers and public goods received, the Ifo Institute reckons that the average immigrant to Germany receives a net 2,300 euros annually.
Immigrants could come and work, pay taxes and social contributions, and gain free access to the public goods of the host country.
China might want oil from the Middle East, but those in the Middle East – with so much wealth concentrated in so few hands – might be more interested in Gucci handbags than in China’s mass-produced goods.
For example, the impact of a euro depreciation is about three times larger in Italy than it is in Germany, because demand for Germany’s exports of specialized capital goods is not very price elastic.
Looking ahead, the Bank will have to shift from lending to governments towards financing the provision of global public goods.
In return, they will rightly demand a greater voice in running the Bank, especially if the Bank’s focus shifts towards global public goods.
The right has greater confidence in markets to allocate resources and provide appropriate incentives; favors private consumption over public goods; is minimally concerned with economic inequality; and tends to be more nationalistic and less optimistic about international cooperation.
The left, by contrast, believes that markets, particularly financial markets, need considerable government regulation and supervision to function well; gives greater weight to public goods (for example, parks, a clean environment, and mass-transit systems); seeks to reduce economic inequality, believing that it undermines democracy and the sense of fairness that is important to well-being; and is more willing to pursue international cooperation as a means to secure peace and provide global public goods, such as climate protection.
Likewise, the choice between privately consumed and publicly consumed “goods” is often blurred, as politicians tend to reinforce citizens’ understandable tendency to demand public goods while rejecting the taxes needed to pay for them.
We should fight against the protectionist temptations that would unravel the very foundation of the European project, a project based on the “four freedoms”: free movement of goods, people, services, and capital.
The main danger for Japan today is a tendency to turn inward, rather than becoming a global civilian power that realizes its great potential to produce global public goods.
Simply put, whereas citizens receiving rents benefit from falling prices for goods and services, producers (and potential producers) do not.
These resources would allow the demand for public goods to permeate the allocation of budgetary resources across ministries.
While all ministries have their external constituencies, some ministries have more of a front-end, “account executive” nature: their core mission involves coordinating the provision of public goods to different parts of the economy.
Likewise, an economy is an accumulation of transactions involving goods and services, mostly carried out by business enterprises.
It encompasses research initiatives and global public goods such as vaccines and emergency-preparedness programs for epidemic outbreaks.
Companies and organizations have shown that in hard-to-reach places in Africa and South Asia, women trained as micro-entrepreneurs are often best positioned to deliver essential goods and services to their villages, even if they have limited literacy and formal education.
Though cargo drones will never replace ground transport, they can ensure that vital goods and services get to where they are needed.
Now, given monetary union, the adjustment must be carried out by changing domestic prices relative to tradable goods – that is, by engineering a depreciation of the real exchange rate.
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