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Instead of providing cash handouts that push people from work into long-term unemployment or retirement, governments can redistribute the benefits of growth by supporting employment and incomes with regional and industrial subsidies and minimum-wage laws.
They have made tax systems less progressive and slashed spending on education, industrial policies and regional subsidies, pouring money instead into health care, pensions, and cash hand-outs that encourage early retirement and disability.
Indeed, that is why we have collectively done a very bad job so far in dealing with the enormous rise in inequality between the industrial middle class and the plutocratic superrich that we have witnessed in the last generation.
Holding Back Europe’s Economic NationalistsPARIS – The German and French governments have been scrambling to save their automobile and truck industries though big fiscal injections, making it clear that, within much of the European Union, industrial policy has returned with a vengeance.
The lesson is clear: European governments must work together when implementing industrial policy.
This wholesale return to the industrial policies of yesteryear, and governments’ reluctance to let even uncompetitive companies fail, should be cause for widespread concern.
Judging by governments’ reactions to the crisis, one could be forgiven for thinking that market regulators and competition authorities should take the lead when an economy is stable, and that industrial policies should be implemented in times of emergency.
The Commission’s handling of the GM Europe issue was an excellent example of industrial intervention.
The difficulties that EU governments face in managing the financial crisis are raising serious questions about whether national industrial policy and the Union’s competition rules can co-exist.
To prevent the EU's single market from going bust, national policymakers must implement industrial restructuring policies in tandem.
Most concern the progress of globalization: the alleged movement of industrial jobs from Europe and the U.S. to Latin America and Asia; the pace of migration; the influence of investors from abroad and the closing of factories.
The Ghost in the Recovery MachineNEW HAVEN – The International Monetary Fund’s October World Economic Outlook proclaimed that, “Strong public policies have fostered a rebound of industrial production, world trade, and retail sales.”
For example, will it intervene when European industrial or energy interests are threatened?
The other example is Winston Churchill, who was elected as a Conservative member of Parliament from the northern industrial town of Oldham.
Most people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across the countryside, or when massive, industrial wind farms extend for miles.
Indeed, though it has long been an industrial powerhouse, Japan is frequently called the world's most successful communist country.
A review of industrial concentration is warranted, as is a major government effort to foster SME growth in new ventures by offering incentives, ensuring access to capital, and lowering barriers to market entry.
After all, Europe’s position toward Russia will ultimately be decided by four major powers: Germany, Russia’s major industrial and energy partner; the United Kingdom, Russia’s banker;France, Russia’s military collaborator; and Poland, Ukraine’s sponsor.
Venezuela’s problems make collaboration and support from Brazil – the southern hemisphere’s largest industrial power – even more important.
Both were based on industrial manufacturing.
Shifting to a low-carbon energy system will therefore require considerable planning, long lead times, dedicated financing, and coordinated action across many parts of the economy, including energy producers, distributors, and residential, commercial, and industrial consumers.
Now, thanks to the recent success of China and other emerging economies, national planning, industrial strategy, and state ownership of strategic industries are back in vogue.
Between 2004 and 2013, African states closed just 158 financing deals for infrastructure or industrial projects, valued at $59 billion – just 5% of the total needed.
The big transport and construction projects needed to realize Eurasia’s economic potential may help Russia recover the industrial and engineering might it lost with communism’s fall.
Like Japan, Korea was characterized by close government-business relations, conglomerates (known here as chaebols), a weak labor movement, and mercantilist industrial and trade policies, with foreign exchange and domestic credit allocated by the state.
Although modern industrial practices had penetrated underdeveloped societies, he thought it unlikely that they could make substantial inroads and transform such societies wholesale.
Lewis turned Boeke’s idea on its head, arguing that labor migration from traditional agriculture to modern industrial activities is the engine of economic development.
There is significant potential domestic demand for coal briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.
Of course, similar calls were made after the Asian and Russian crises of 1997-1998, but were not taken seriously by the rich industrial countries.
It is obviously good for the G-7 or a subset of G-7 members to show leadership, but no fundamental reform can occur without an inclusive process that gives both industrial and developing countries, and both large and small countries an adequate voice.
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