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The first tier comprises the affluent countries, notably the United States, European nations, Australia, and Japan – with a combined population of around one billion and per capita incomes ranging from $79,000 (Luxembourg) to $16,000 (Republic of Korea).
Success in rebooting the economy will depend on ensuring that the extra cash goes into the hands of those who are constrained in their spending by low incomes and a lack of collateral assets.
As incomes rose, already-prudent Asians became even more prudent, and profitable companies became even more profitable.
The anomaly of rising consumption driven only by tax rebates and social-welfare payments ended in March, when consumer spending declined in response to lower employment and falling labor incomes.
On the other hand, total transfers have a much bigger equalizing effect on incomes.
What steady-state advocates forget is that stagnating or declining incomes would heighten resistance to higher taxes on fossil fuels and delay investment in green technologies (and thus the transition to new industries and the creation of better jobs).
In other political unions, cohesion is maintained through a strong common identity, but often also through permanent fiscal transfers between richer and poorer regions that even out incomes ex post.
Thus, environmental pressures are now hitting the bottom line – affecting incomes and livelihoods around the world.
But, with the incomes of the bottom 90% having stagnated for close to a third of a century (and declining for a significant proportion), the health data simply confirmed that things were not going well for very large swaths of the country.
Higher incomes would enable them to increase their personal spending on education and health (as seems to have been happening in India during its recent period of accelerated growth).
Meanwhile, state governments, seeing revenues fall as a result of lower taxable incomes last year, are cutting back like mad.
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.
So we need sustainable agriculture-led growth to increase supplies and keep prices affordable while also boosting the incomes of poor farmers in developing countries.
Indeed, by promoting agricultural practices and technologies that are environmentally sustainable and raise rural incomes, these policies also stimulate rural non-farm activities.
And, of course, hard-pressed middle-class American consumers benefit hugely from low-cost Chinese imports – the Walmart effect – that enable them to stretch their budgets in an era of unrelenting pressure on jobs and real incomes.
Similarly, 10% annualized gains in inflation-adjusted retail sales through mid-2017 – about 45% faster than the 6.9% pace of overall GDP growth – reflect impressive growth in household incomes and the increasingly powerful (and possibly under-reported) impetus of e-commerce.
Everywhere, the share of wages and incomes began to fall as a proportion of GDP.
This means that there is increasing disparity between average (mean) income and the median income (that of the “typical” person, whose income lies in the middle of the distribution of all incomes).
If a few bankers get much richer, average income can go up, even as most individuals’ incomes are declining.
Exports are rising as are after-tax incomes.
Meanwhile, the US economy is already doing well – unemployment is below 5% and real incomes are rising.
But growing inter-state inequality may not be fatal to India's survival, for several reasons:The output data are not conclusive in showing any long-run divergence (although clearly capital flows--domestic as well as foreign--matter for growth);Internal labor mobility may well have some countervailing effects, which is not seen in data on output, but would be seen in figures on state incomes, if these were available;Indian states differed in their responses to reform, mostly because of disparities in their economic and social infrastructure--particularly education and health--at the time reforms were initiated.
Since 2000, China’s long-term plan for boosting incomes, reducing inequality, and protecting the environment has depended on the harmonious progression of innovation and urbanization.
China and India, in particular, lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in recent decades, increasing their citizens’ incomes and improving their health.
When these children are old enough to enter the labor force, the proportion of income-earners in the economy could be increased substantially, boosting average per capita incomes.
Among other things, this reflects the tendency, supported by empirical evidence, for higher incomes to impel households to delay having children.
The same study argues that in the more financially repressed peripheral countries, the main expectation associated with the liberalization process was that those who had previously lacked access to credit – say, because of low incomes or low savings – could now borrow, in order to finance more consumption.
If, for example, a target country provides minimum wage guarantees and replacement incomes for the domestic unemployed, immigrants simply force domestic residents into the care of the welfare state.
Eligibility to receive SNAP benefits is limited to households with incomes below 130% of the poverty level, about $1,700 a month for a family of three.
Because a decision by a second adult to work could eliminate eligibility, the program discourages employment and reduces earned incomes.
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