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Until relatively recently, environmental
protection
and consumer safety were secondary issues in the United States and Europe.
Their survival required government protection, subsidies, and administrative directives.
On the one hand, the government continued to provide transitory
protection
to firms in priority sectors; on the other, it liberalized the entry of private enterprises and foreign direct investment into the labor-intensive sectors that were consistent with China’s comparative advantage but were repressed in the past.
But those movements produce big changes in real exchange rates, i.e., in manufacturing competitiveness, and thus fuel demands for trade
protection.
In short, China no longer needs US
protection.
Just as a weak China was not able to count on Wilson’s protection, a strong China will not be able to count on Trump to get out of its way – at least not without throwing a few elbows.
In contrast, nearly 80% of the world’s poor do not have access to any social
protection
to shield them from the effects of unemployment, illness, or disability – not to mention crop failure or soaring food costs.
The countries in which people are least able to sustain their livelihoods in the face of unexpected shocks, and in which food and farming systems are the least resilient, offer the least
protection.
For example, in West Africa’s Sahel region – which is experiencing a combination of drought, failed harvests, high food prices, displacement, and endemic poverty – the lack of social
protection
leaves millions of people to rely on their own limited coping mechanisms and charity.
A global reinsurance mechanism is urgently needed to safeguard those in dire need of social
protection.
The costs of such a package can be separated into two components: the response to “structural,” or endemic, poverty, and
protection
against unexpected shocks.
Focusing on the latter, we estimate the cost of the reinsurance premium needed to provide
protection
against shocks at 0.5% of the GDP of the poor countries concerned, or a vanishingly small fraction of global GDP, which can be shared between rich and poor countries.
Providing better
protection
to the world’s most vulnerable persons against devastating hazards is not only conceivable – it is achievable.
Western Europe evolved from a “Community” to a “Union,” and its states became less firmly bound to American
protection.
Its electoral program calls for constitutionalism, separation of powers, citizenship-based rights, and the
protection
of women’s rights.
The nexus between urban expansion and climate
protection
is infrastructure.
That will mean improving
protection
of the EU’s external borders, compensating domestic losers from migration and free trade, and soothing public fears about terrorism.
Everywhere you look, well-meaning groups see imports as a threat to their pet social programs, from welfare to environmental
protection.
By identifying trade
protection
with protecting the environment, consumer rights, human rights, and social welfare benefits, protectionists claim the moral high ground undeservedly in the battle with free-traders.
While the platform does refer to the country’s “humanitarian responsibilities,” it also demands “functioning protection” of the EU’s external borders.
When Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi attacked the premises, the Indian government stepped up its
protection
for the Chinese diplomats.
The right to social security enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights requires universal social
protection
to ensure the well-being of all, including people living in poverty and those at risk of poverty.
Social policy, provisioning, and
protection
must therefore be integral to development and poverty-reduction strategies.
Indeed, the most famous free-speech cases – the ones that are supposed to showcase America’s strength and moral power – involve the
protection
of speech that most decent people hate.
The tariff is fully consistent with a special arrangement negotiated at the time of China’s accession to the WTO, which allows the US to impose temporary
protection
when its markets are “disrupted” by Chinese exports.
After all, governments are generally expected to provide
protection
to its citizens.
But if you say that you favor
protection
from imports , you are painted into a corner with Reed Smoot and Willis C. Hawley, authors of the infamous 1930 US tariff bill.
Modern industrial societies now have a wide array of social protections – unemployment compensation, adjustment assistance, and other labor-market tools, as well as health insurance and family support – that mitigate demand for cruder forms of
protection.
The battle against trade
protection
has been won – so far.
While central banks should be in charge of maintaining adequate levels of liquidity in the system, so-called “microprudential” financial regulation should independently oversee financial institutions’ soundness and the
protection
of depositors.
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