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Therefore, developing nation policymakers should consider encouraging households to change their food practices.
Second, this is a crisis of solvency, not just liquidity, but true deleveraging has not really started, because private losses and debts of households, financial institutions, and even corporations are not being reduced, but rather socialized and put on government balance sheets.
Lack of deleveraging will limit the ability of banks to lend, households to spend, and firms to invest.
One method is to levy licensing fees on households, a de facto tax on content.
Latin America and the Caribbean have a high rate of low-income, single-mother households.
With a cyclical mindset and fiscal space exhausted, a new round of quantitative easing (QE2) might be defended as a strategy for mitigating the tail risk of another downturn in asset markets (mainly housing) and households’ balance sheets – and with it the possibility of a deflationary dynamic.
German households are saving.
But today, in Amman, as in almost every Arab capital, independent meetings and debates about how to move forward are taking place in art galleries, think tanks, salons, ordinary households, and, most significantly, online.
The federal government provides significantly more support to every state health-care system through Medicare (for pensioners) and Medicaid (for low-income households), despite the fact that Puerto Ricans pay the same federal payroll taxes that fund much of the Medicare program.
As households and investors borrow cheaply to invest in rapidly appreciating housing and fixed assets, bubbles form and then burst, spurring crises.
The uncomfortable truth is that Chinese households have benefited far too little from the country’s economic-growth miracle.
Indeed, households’ share of national income has declined considerably in the last decade, in sharp contrast to the advanced economies, where households’ share is consistently high.
One in five rural households benefit from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which provides employment mostly to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and women in villages (in my own state, Kerala, 92% of the beneficiaries are women, whose lives have been transformed by their new income).
While French public spending – which stood at 56% of GDP in 2011 – is at or above Scandinavian levels, French households pay lower tax rates on consumption and personal income.
But it is increasingly apparent that this approach has undermined public finances and competitiveness – and that households end up picking up the tab.
If Hollande’s tax hikes – on income (including a temporary 75% tax rate for the country’s wealthiest households), dividends, capital gains, and capital assets – are not enough to deter entrepreneurs, the cost of hiring workers and the difficulty of firing them remain powerful disincentives.
Whatever tax-law changes the US Congress approves this summer are unlikely to have big effects on the flow of purchasing power to households until April, 2004.
If and when the proposed tax cuts are fully phased in, they will not provide the $1,000 a year boost to the income of 90 million households that the Bush Administration implies they will.
Instead, they will likely provide something like an additional $250 a year to the incomes of typical households--and much larger windfalls for households with annual incomes exceeding $200,000.
With EU support worth €18 million, this operation will improve food security for around 860,000 rural households, or more than six million people.
Similarly, two Food Facility projects in Mozambique, worth a total of €2.5 million, are benefiting almost 50,000 farmers and nearly 300,000 rural families by increasing agricultural production, improving conditions for commercializing products, and addressing food security issues that affect rural households.
The Fund’s programs include scholarships for Roma students, school meals to overcome the “hunger barrier” to school attendance for children from poor households, academic support to help poor children catch up with their peers, or teacher training to create better schools for all children.
Of course, anyone who wanted to could have seen American households’ growing indebtedness, which would have gone a long way toward correcting the false impression of success given by the GDP statistic.
Low oil prices, which reduce the cost of gas at the pump, provide an additional boost by giving US households more cash to spend at the mall.
In the United States, one-eighth of all black males between the ages of 25 and 34 are in jail, and three out of five black American households with children are headed by a single mother.
Whereas 35% of all households lived below the poverty line in 1945-1980, the share rose to 38% in 1990-2000.
Children from recipient households in El Salvador have a lower school-dropout rate; in Sri Lanka, they have more access to private tutors.
The US rate of relative poverty (households at less than half of median income), at 17.5%, is also the second highest in the OECD (again just behind Israel).
Indeed, the expectation that tax-included prices will rise in the future can stimulate households to buy cars, appliances, and other consumer goods today.
The Limits of Carbon PricingLONDON – In 2004, German households installing rooftop solar energy systems received a guaranteed price of €0.57
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