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According to African Progress Panel estimates, poor African households would save $58 a year, on average, by installing solar panels – money that they could spend on education, health, and productive investment.
Part of the problem is that poor households cannot afford the up-front costs of solar technologies.
The Nairobi-based M-KOPA – which has connected more than 200,000 households in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to solar power – enables their customers to acquire a solar kit for a small deposit.
African governments could begin by converting the $20 billion they now spend subsidizing energy consumption into investments in connecting low-income households to power.
Add to this several other differences – above all, poorer families’ higher fertility rates – and the sums reveal that the top 10% of households actually make 78 times more (on a per capita basis) than those at the bottom.
In our book, we estimate that if poor households in Chile had the same access to jobs as the middle classes enjoy, the gap between rich and poor would narrow by half.
At the same time, a doubling of energy costs takes a significant bite out of US households’ budgets, with energy costs directly accounting for about 6.5% of consumer spending.
Even more problematic, this is a regressive tax, disproportionately draining lower-income households’ discretionary spending power.
Last year, energy represented 8.7% of spending by the bottom 20% of households, compared to 4.9% for the top quintile.
Among Colau’s commitments to the people of Barcelona was a local tax cut for small businesses and households, assistance to the poor, and the construction of housing for 15,000 refugees – a large share of the total number that Spain was meant to absorb from frontline states like Greece and Italy.
So, even if reducing inequality was bad for overall growth, it might still be good for social welfare in the relevant sense, if it made many households in the middle better off.
Nearly all households in the model experienced an increase in pre-tax income.
But taxes increased for two-thirds of households.
For middle-income households, the increased taxation was offset by earnings, but leisure also fell.
As a result, the tax change left around 60% of households worse off, even as average household income grew, driven by gains at the top.
But most policymakers would likely object if they understood that growth would be achieved by higher taxes on two-thirds of households, leaving the median household working harder to earn the same after-tax income.
By contrast, investing in a company like Tesla Motors – which has now developed a rechargeable battery for home use, which could lead to a sharp increase in the number of households switching to solar power – looks far more attractive.
A stronger renminbi would help to reduce rising inflationary pressure in China by reducing the cost of imports, which would also increase Chinese households’ real incomes – a key goal of China’s new five-year plan.
Even those Chinese households that do not buy imported goods would benefit, because the lower cost of imported raw materials would reduce the cost of goods produced in China.
Happy households and harmonious states go together.
With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.
But, now that house prices have collapsed and credit is unavailable to underwater households, demand has plummeted.
Credit to state firms and to households continues to grow rapidly.
More specifically, for households in the lowest quintile, the effective tax rate in 2013 was 3.3%, about half of what it had been on average over the previous 30 years.
And in countries like the United States, the distribution of income and wealth is so skewed that lower-income households cannot afford to invest in measures to adapt to rapidly changing employment conditions.
For households, the main impact of lower interest rates is felt through mortgages.
This implies that QE would not reach, say, Spanish households, whose mortgages are indexed to short-term rates, which are already close to zero.
In the US, households have a prepayment option on their mortgages should interest rates fall.
This implies that a fall in the rate at which bundles of mortgages can be sold on the market can have a strong impact on household spending, because lower long-term rates typically lead to waves of mortgage refinancing, leaving households with lower monthly payments – and thus higher disposable income.
Owner occupancy rates are high in the US, and the financial system allows households to extract the equity in their homes relatively cheaply, either by second liens or by refinancing the entire mortgage.
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