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Seldom have they been found to increase average incomes by very much.
Even more important is the promotion of higher-quality seeds to produce better crop yields, increase production, and boost incomes.
Preventing homelessness is both cost-effective and humane, but it requires that people have adequate incomes to cover basic needs, including housing.
Both within and between countries, life satisfaction increases with higher incomes.
By mid-century, India and China will account for 2.5 billion of the 3.5 billion additional people with advanced-country incomes.
Economists begin by summing up everyone’s money incomes to derive nominal Gross Domestic Product – or, for the sake of simplicity, the country’s total money income (N).
This is the picture of an economy sliding from recession toward something reminiscent of depression: falling incomes and even faster declines in prices.
One may retort that an increase in real national income, R, is always good news, even if money incomes are falling.
For if prices (P) are falling faster than money incomes (N), surely this means that we can afford to buy more for less.
Indeed, much of the European periphery is caught in a deflationary mire, with money incomes falling, debts skyrocketing (as a share of money incomes), and banks drowning in non-performing loans that prevent them from lending even to profitable enterprises.
On the contrary, Kahneman and his colleagues found that people with higher incomes spent more time in activities that are associated with negative feelings, such as tension and stress.
Many governments try to improve farmers’ incomes by setting high prices domestically and erecting trade barriers to keep out imports.
This stance assumes that lower tax rates raise the tax/GDP ratio by ensuring better compliance with tax laws, and favors indirect taxation (such as value-added taxes) in order to broaden the tax base to include those with modest incomes.
For example, capital mobility increases opportunities for tax evasion, given that tax authorities’ capacity to monitor their citizens’ overseas incomes is limited, and some governments and financial institutions systematically conceal relevant information.
The final-assembly links of global-value added chains will leave China for countries at earlier stages of economic development, such as Bangladesh, where incomes are lower (though without producing much change in the balance with the US).
In addition to job creation, some researchers have blithely claimed that all sorts of other economic benefits will accrue from investment in alternative energy, including increased productivity, higher disposable incomes, and lower operating costs for businesses.
They comprise agricultural enterprises as well as farmers, all of whom pool their resources to create economies of scale, reduce costs, and lift incomes.
This increases the supply of food and boosts farmers’ incomes, especially in places such as Bangladesh, where more than one-third of perishables spoil before ever reaching the consumer.
Yet, given the enormous global pressures that we face, including vastly unequal incomes and massive environmental damage, we must find new technological solutions to our problems.
Jobs have gone, incomes have been lost and opportunities foregone.
Why are per capita incomes in the poorest countries less than one-twentieth of those in the richest countries?
Many argue that high incomes in rich countries arise in part from cultural traits that make individuals adept at responding to economic opportunities.
The record is striking: the fastest growing countries are never the countries with the highest per capita incomes but always a subset of the lower-income countries.
Some poor countries -- those that adopt good economic policies and institutions -- enjoy more rapid, catch-up growth: because they are short of their potential, their per capita incomes can increase not only because of genuine innovations, but also because they utilize their economic potential better.
But surely slowing growth, especially where it affects middle-class incomes, has been a major driver of populism in Europe and the United States, exacerbated no doubt by the financial crisis.
Russia’s growth generated jobs, boosted incomes, and contributed to a decade of domestic stability.
And, third, manufacturing demand was not constrained by low domestic incomes: production could expand virtually without limit, through exports.
In Ethiopia, for example, public investments in irrigation, transport, and power have produced a significant increase in agricultural productivity and incomes.
In addition, a comprehensive nationwide housing policy is urgently needed to ensure that housing remains affordable, particularly for those on limited incomes.
Shopped out, savings-less, and debt-burdened consumers have been hit by a wealth shock (falling home prices and stock markets), rising debt-service ratios, and falling incomes and employment.
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