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At a minimum, the ECB has made it clear to one and all--politicians, trade unions, and the markets-- that its’ long period of monetary inactivity is coming to an end.
Why?Labor regulations,
minimum
wage laws, and trade unions all bar many less qualified people from obtaining jobs in Europe's formal economy.
Better metrics would, at the minimum, weigh these costs against the benefits, possibly compelling policymakers to accompany such changes with others that enhance security and equality.
The
minimum
wage, which is earned by the median worker, buys less than 900 calories a day – not enough to feed a person, let alone a family.
At a minimum, however, it should make it obvious that confrontational, repressive approaches to addictive disorders are very likely to make things worse, rather than better.
For example, South Korea’s government recently announced that it will raise the
minimum
wage next year by 16.4%, to 7,530 won ($6.70) per hour, and up to 55% above its current level by 2020.
Perhaps every country should vote in the UN General Assembly on how to proceed; the option receiving the most votes – with a possible mandatory
minimum
requirement, such as requiring an alternative to win a majority or some higher number of votes – would prevail.
In some critical sense, he must repudiate Blair’s legacy, which, at a minimum, means promising to take Britain out of the Iraq War.Brown has longed to be prime minister ever since May 12, 1994, the fateful day when John Smith, the Labour Party’s leader in opposition, dropped dead of a heart attack.
Rather than implementing structural policies to promote economic growth, European policymakers are pursuing economic populism, by promising high returns at little cost and consistently delivering the bare
minimum.
At a minimum, China needs an effective system to deal with insolvency; strict regulation of risk pricing and assessment; and robust accounting, loan-loss provisioning, and financial disclosure rules.
Therefore, new regulations should be kept to a
minimum.
The best-known tools for this are margin requirements and
minimum
capital requirements.
The Chinese authorities do it today, and they also set the
minimum
deposits banks must maintain with the central bank.
At a minimum, proprietary trading ought to be financed by banks’ own capital.
In what some call a “reverse Volcker moment,” US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has specified a target of 6.5% unemployment alongside his inflation target;Japan’s new government has proposed a
minimum
inflation target; and Mark Carney, the next governor of the Bank of England, has argued that “there could not be a more favorable case for nominal GDP targeting.”
The island uses the US dollar, and the US Congress imposed on Puerto Rico the federal
minimum
wage, even though its per capita income is – as Anne Krueger has pointed out – about half that of the poorest US state.
And the European Union has committed to a
minimum
emissions reduction of 40% from 1990 levels.
In an autarkic economic system with international commerce reduced to the minimum, the political size of the country corresponds to the size of its market.
My task, as I saw it, was to ensure Central and Eastern Europe's peaceful return to full sovereignty with a
minimum
of Soviet interference.
There is no universal figure like 60%, but the general principle is that, at a bare minimum, the majority ought to be demonstrably stable.
Extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, combating the stigma against hiring them, creating more on-the-job training opportunities and apprenticeships, and raising the
minimum
wage are all essential steps toward a more equitable distribution of the recovery’s benefits.
Cynics will say that the advanced countries, in the tradition of previous trade deals, intended to provide only the bare
minimum
in the way of concessions, while generating the full maximum in the way of “spin,” to get the developing countries on board.
And, after a review of the Rwanda debacle, 400 NGOs and UN organizations working in 80 countries got together in the Sphere Project to develop a common humanitarian mandate and handbook of standards outlining the
minimum
performance required of any NGO working in a disaster zone.
Given Europe’s current political balance, and taking into account its time-honored tradition of muddling through, the following stand out as
minimum
requirements for steering clear of the precipice:A growing chorus of European and world opinion is pushing in the direction of more growth-oriented policies.
As a result, the average nominal
minimum
wage in China nearly doubled between 2011 and 2018, and wages for workers in state-owned enterprises rose even faster.
And in 2012, Turkey raised the
minimum
period of compulsory education to 12 years.
(The average monthly benefit paid by Chile’s private system is around $300, less than Chile’s
minimum
wage.)
Chile’s system already shares risks between low-income workers and taxpayers, via a
minimum
non-contributory pension and a set of pension top-ups introduced in 2008 (as Minister of Finance, I helped design that reform).
But then humanity will have spawned a new species and a new civil rights movement (which I would gladly join) demanding freedom for Nexus and equal rights with Ken – including a living wage,
minimum
benefits, and enfranchisement.
These are issues for debate, but one thing should be clear: The eurozone should not aim to achieve the
minimum
necessary under favorable conditions, which would expose its leaders to charges of poor contingency planning should crisis conditions reemerge.
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