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Meanwhile, some attractive world cities are quite affordable, relative to incomes.
As I have argued before, convergence of emerging countries’ real average incomes, in the aggregate, with advanced countries’ incomes is likely to continue into the 2020’s.
It is none too soon to accelerate reforms, since the bureaucrats are busying expanding their power and incomes.
An ex ante debt restructuring that reduces the size of any new loans and renders the debt sustainable before any reforms are implemented stands a good chance of crowding in investment, stabilizing incomes, and setting the stage for recovery.
A large-scale program to reboot America’s crumbling infrastructure would go a long way toward addressing this gap between assets and liabilities, providing pension funds with investments with long time horizons (and thus guaranteeing the incomes of tomorrow’s retirees) while leveraging private capital for the public good.
In real terms, therefore, average household incomes are likely to remain flat or even shrink, undermining the UK economy’s crucial consumer-spending engine.
Mediocre income growth for everyone but the rich in the last few decades opened a gap between incomes and spending aspirations.
The push towards a modern welfare state accelerated after the Great Depression, when the state took on the responsibility for macroeconomic stabilization – a role that required the maintenance of a large middle class by widening the provision of public goods through progressive taxation of incomes and wealth and fostering economic opportunity for all.
Three decades of relative social and economic stability then ensued, from the late 1940’s until the mid-1970’s, a period when inequality fell sharply and median incomes grew rapidly.
Achieving strong inclusive national-level growth to revive a declining middle class, kick-start stagnant incomes, and curtail high youth unemployment is now taking precedence.
Before that, between 1960 and 1985, American households saved an average of 9% of their after-tax incomes.
Helped by massive public investment in infrastructure and logistical capabilities, some of this work will move inland, where incomes are lower.
Eventually, however, labor-intensive activities will move to countries at earlier stages of development, while China moves up the value chain, both in the export sector and, with rising incomes, in production for domestic consumption.
The aggregate size of the developing countries (especially the major emerging economies), their rising incomes, and their ongoing movement up the value chain are having a growing impact on advanced-country economies, particularly these economies’ tradable sectors.
Can capital be raised where incomes are depressed?
Lately, the economists who are most influential with left-leaning politicians seem hopeful that growth, employment, and incomes will rise if policymakers embrace massive new deficit-financed spending to create demand for goods and services.
Having more time, they are using the less visible, and much more gradual, path of “financial repression,” under which interest rates are forced down so that creditors, including those on modest fixed incomes, subsidize debtors.
This policy has long been a burden, both on EU consumers, because it has kept food prices high, and on EU taxpayers, because the subsidy to farmers' incomes costs the Union some e(Euro) 41bn every year (about $40bn), or around half of the total EU budget.
One social justification for the CAP is to prevent too large a gap between rural and industrial incomes in the existing EU.
But all incomes in the candidate countries are much lower than those in the EU, and if EU membership were to give a sudden upward shove to rural incomes in Central Europe, it could be quite destabilising for social relations there.
Taken to the extreme, it means that data about our preferences, incomes, and spending patterns could soon be used to determine an individually calibrated price for all transactions.
For consumers, the slice of the economic pie made available by their disposable incomes will shrink in real terms, leading to a fall in aggregate demand.
In response, the government has urged managers to publish their incomes and abolished the bank secrecy laws that were once considered sacrosanct.
As Columbia’s Xavier Sala-i-Martin pointed out in 2002 and 2006, even as inequality has risen in nearly every country, inequality across countries has decreased, owing largely to the success of developing countries like China and India in raising their per capita incomes since the 1980s.
Rising incomes require rising productivity.
In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, microfinance has enabled SMEs to invest in drought-resistant crops, build better irrigation systems, and purchase climate insurance to protect incomes when crops fail because of too much – or too little – rainfall.
All else being equal, per capita incomes and productivity in countries with high proportions of elderly people tend to grow more slowly than in younger countries.
Argentina’s per capita income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full-blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply.
Indeed, while economic growth, accompanied by greater urbanization and higher per capita incomes, has translated into greater demand for fresh water, the population movements that have resulted are now exacerbating local ethnic tensions.
Incomes produced by these illegal markets are huge, competing in size with Latin America’s most successful legal commodities.
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