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Given increased dollar revenues and easy access to dollars, the government was able to maintain a fixed nominal exchange rate.
Second, food reserves should be established, not only for humanitarian supplies in disaster-prone, infrastructure-poor areas, as Zoellick proposes, but also as a means to support stable revenues for agricultural producers and ensure affordable food for the poor.
Yet, despite these circumstances, one political party wants to gut tax revenues altogether, and the other is easily dragged along, against its better instincts, out of concern for keeping its rich contributors happy.
The Middle East’s Oil-Price ProblemCAMBRIDGE – Between 2014 and 2016, Middle Eastern oil-exporting countries’ revenues fell by an average of more than one-third – or 15% of GDP – and their current-account surpluses have swung violently to double-digit deficits.
As in the 1980s, the region’s governments today have tied oil revenues to consumption subsidies, public-sector employment, and public investment.
Decoupling oil revenues from public subsidies will require a new social contract that is based less on guaranteed consumption and more on personal autonomy.
It is hard to predict what a future of low oil revenues will mean for the Middle East.
Environmental taxes could lead to better air and water quality, even as they raise substantial revenues; congestion taxes would improve quality of life in cities; property and capital-gains taxes would encourage higher investment in productive activities, promoting growth.
The problem lies in a mismatch between their respective shares of tax revenues and mandatory expenditures.
With local governments forced to cover a large proportion of public spending with a disproportionately low share of revenues, local-government debt has swelled.
Moreover, they doubt local governments’ ability to manage their budgets properly and to use the additional tax revenues efficiently.
Could a reduction in government expenditure (or an increase in taxes) lead to such a sharp decline in economic activity that revenues fall and the fiscal position actually deteriorates further?
Moreover, if it were true, it would follow that tax cuts would reduce budget deficits, because faster economic growth would generate higher revenues, even at lower tax rates.
Stronger land rights for farmers will deprive city authorities of the land-conversion revenues needed to provide public services to new urban migrants.
Moreover, the increase in exports and the shift from imports to domestically produced goods and services would strengthen their economies, thereby reducing their fiscal deficits as tax revenues rose and transfers declined.
But in Europe there is another option for raising revenues: the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (ETS).
The oil sector appears to be relatively intact, and thus should contribute to government revenues relatively soon.
Even proposed measures to raise fiscal revenues – such as the privatization of minority shares in seven state-owned corporations – will likely be done in a way that favors his cronies.
Nonetheless, the secession of Scotland would deprive the UK of significant North Sea oil revenues, on which the economics of Scottish independence largely relies, and Spain could also suffer from the loss of Catalonia’s disproportionately large contribution to the Spanish economy.
Projects like these are being replicated across the continent, generating billions of dollars in value in terms of reduced costs, productivity gains, and increased revenues.
Yet today, South Tyrol enjoys extensive constitutional autonomy, including full cultural freedom and a fiscal regime that leaves 90% of tax revenues in the region.
Forbes magazine estimates that the sharing economy’s 2013 revenues topped $3.5 billion.
After a prolonged period of accelerating demand growth, notably from China, governments came to regard high commodity prices as semi-permanent – an assumption that caused them to overestimate their future revenues.
Oil revenues can be controlled by the state to be used, in part, for social programs, as in Venezuela.
But Russia’s latest energy windfall has masked Putin’s incompetent economic management, with growth and government revenues now entirely reliant on the hydrocarbons sector.
While expenditure for both is rising rapidly, the offsetting revenues are coming from ever fewer people in employment.
Governments must continue to pay benefits to today’s pensioners, and they can do so only by borrowing money to replace the revenues that tomorrow’s pensioners are now diverting to personal insurance schemes.
They historically have feuded over tactics and strategy, but, since the deficit is the difference between revenues and outlays, they are closely interconnected.
Indeed, because the sum of all future tax revenues (discounted to today) must cover the sum of all future spending plus the national debt, the only way to keep taxes relatively low is to control spending.
These jobs may not generate revenues directly, but they are part of the structure that enables people to run companies effectively and benefit from economies of scale.
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