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Furthermore, decreased transportation costs and the breakup of vertical production chains in many sectors are facilitating poorer countries’ integration into the global economy.
For example, in the US, the federal budget offsets a substantial part (estimated at 30-40%) of the differences in per capita income levels across states, because poorer states contribute less income tax, on average, and receive higher transfer payments.
But these schemes make firms more profitable by making their suppliers, workers, and customers poorer.
So the EU must harmonize its policies with poorer countries.
Faced with the erratic nature of agricultural markets, regulation is needed to soften the impact on poorer countries of volatile food prices.
Because Germany, the eurozone’s largest economy, shares a currency with poorer member states, it enjoys an artificial boost to export competitiveness.
Moreover, while Germany is the world’s second-largest exporter (after China), it does not buy much with its surpluses, which means that other EU countries, particularly in the poorer south, cannot earn.
There are good reasons why the US adopted policies that encouraged poorer countries to grow rapidly through export-led industrialization.
Unless more deficit reduction, which is inevitable, comes from curbing entitlement benefits and increasing revenues, and less from programs vital for economic growth, the result will be a poorer, weaker US – and a more uncertain, if not unstable, world.
The US is also a large transfer union, in which richer states permanently subsidize the poorer ones.
In just a single decade, the EU managed to bring poorer, peripheral member states--Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland--from 50% to 90% of the EU average in per capita income, creating a bigger market for companies from wealthier northern countries, and stemming migration from poorer southern economies.
And rich countries agreed to meet more regularly with the poorer countries in a new group called the G-20: which includes eight rich countries, ten developing countries (mainly the big ones, such as Brazil, China, India, and South Africa), plus a representative of the IMF/World Bank and one from the European Union.
On the one hand, they should help pay for any damages they indirectly inflict on poorer countries (scientists will be needed to establish or disprove such linkages), and on the other hand, they should take serious and long-term actions (such as reducing the use of fossil fuels) to limit the environmental costs they are imposing on themselves and the rest of the world.
All inputs needed to feed each additional person will, on average, come from scarcer, poorer, and more distant sources, disproportionately more energy will be used, and disproportionately more greenhouse gases will be generated.
The poorer EU countries will suffer from this development.
As exchange rates fall, they will quickly feel much poorer.
Such a scheme would likely be met with some resistance, with mobile-phone producers arguing that, by increasing the cost of their products, the deposit system could undermine demand, especially from poorer customers purchasing cheap phones.
As Oxfam International’s Executive Director, I am not pointing this out to be bombastic; rather, new data on global inequality reveal that the world’s poorer half has less wealth than we previously thought.
Italy’s persistent regional inequalities were also on vivid display: whereas the prosperous north favored the anti-immigrant League party, the more populist Five Star Movement received most of its support in the poorer south.
Italy’s massive public debt and subsidies to poorer regions were certainly on these voters’ minds.
It is therefore imperative to develop new detection technologies that will work in poorer countries, and that complement existing systems such as bar codes.
We took action because cash-strapped national TB programs tend to be conservative about adopting new treatments, and because pharmaceutical manufacturers have little incentive to bring their drugs to market in poorer countries.
Other health metrics are equally disappointing, with data indicating poorer health outcomes for Americans throughout their lives.
That means more anxiety, which translates into poorer health.
Two worries arise most often: globalization, which makes jobs migrate to poorer regions, and computer technology, which can make them disappear altogether.
The challenges are even greater for the poorer developing countries: they need to plug into the global economy to narrow the gap with the rest of the world and bring concrete benefits to their poorest citizens.
Nor was it meant to be a system of redistribution from richer to poorer countries via cheaper borrowing for governments by means of common Eurobonds or outright fiscal transfers.
That sounds good until you realize that it means that 210 times as many people in poorer countries might die needlessly as a result – because the resources that could have saved them were spent on windmills, solar panels, biofuels, and other rich-world fixations.
This is the international financial market’s assessment of our future prosperity: we will be poorer.
In addition to payments through the UN, high-income countries make direct payments to poorer countries in the form of official development assistance.
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