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Americans are richer than they were in the 1950’s, but they are not happier.
If the recession costs migrants their jobs in richer host countries and forces them to return home to their countries of origin, millions of already poor people will be thrown into greater poverty.
Economic models indicate that a successful Doha round would make the global economy $11 trillion richer each year by 2030, with most of the benefits going to developing countries.
To reconcile taxation with an overall economic strategy that seeks to maximize all citizens’ wellbeing, the tax system should adhere to three central principles: tax bad things (like pollution), rather than good things (like work); design taxes to cause the least possible distortion in the economy; and maintain a progressive rate structure, with richer individuals paying a larger share of their income.
Among cities with similar populations – say, Salvador and Curitiba in Brazil, or Guadalajara and Monterrey in Mexico – more diversified cities are richer than less diversified cities.
The Netherlands, Chile, and Cameroon have a similar population size, but the Netherlands is twice as rich as Chile, which is 10 times richer than Cameroon.
At present, when the rich part of the world catches an economic cold, the poorer countries face a double contagion: Their trade earnings plummet, and flows of aid and investment from richer countries dries up.
The reason is that wood opened up a different and much richer path to development.
By contrast, developing petrochemical or steel plants, or moving low-wage diamond-cutting jobs from India or Vietnam to Botswana – a country that is more than four times richer – is as unimaginative as it is constricting.
If the fight against poverty is to be based on our traditional carbon-heavy growth path, the climate consequences will be devastating, even if the richer parts of the world were to get rid of all emissions today.
In other political unions, cohesion is maintained through a strong common identity, but often also through permanent fiscal transfers between richer and poorer regions that even out incomes ex post.
Moreover, even if China becomes the world’s largest economy in, say, 2018, Americans would still be far richer than Chinese, with per capita GDP in America four times higher than in China.
The fundamental idea behind a fiscal union is that poorer, less creditworthy countries can gain from joint debt liability with richer countries.
That is not to say that bigger and richer countries lack advantages over smaller and poorer countries.
It would also ensure that richer nations pay more, taking much of the political heat out of the debate.
If a few bankers get much richer, average income can go up, even as most individuals’ incomes are declining.
How much richer should these countries have expected to become?
In 1960, countries with an education level of 8.3 years of schooling were 5.5 times richer than those with 2.8 year of schooling.
By contrast, countries that had increased their education from 2.8 years of schooling in 1960 to 8.3 years of schooling in 2010 were only 167% richer.
In Mexico, the average income of men aged 25-30 with a full primary education differs by more than a factor of three between poorer municipalities and richer ones.
The difference cannot possibly be related to educational quality, because those who moved from poor municipalities to richer ones also earned more.
Whatever is preventing these countries from becoming richer, it is not lack of education.
Research commissioned by my think tank, Copenhagen Consensus, finds that completing the Doha Round of global free-trade talks – a prospect that still seemed possible just a few years ago, but is now almost unimaginable – would reduce the number of people living in poverty by 145 million in 15 years and make the world $11 trillion richer.
India’s government, by contrast, has neither the power nor the inclination to trample over poor people to make rich people richer.
Today’s brain drain is not only from emerging and developing countries to richer countries, but also from European countries to the US.
Specifically, it is hoped that an artificial surge in asset prices will make people feel richer and more optimistic, thus triggering “wealth effects” and “animal spirits” that stimulate consumption and investment spending, bolster job creation, and, in the process, “validate” the artificial asset pricing.
Freer and richer than almost anywhere else in the world, countries such as Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland would seem to have little to worry about.
Some 69% of Egypt’s children are in school, a ratio that matches much richer Malaysia’s.
Here incomes are often considerably more volatile than in richer countries, owing to heavy reliance on a few commodities or industries and hence higher vulnerability to external shocks, including weather-related and other natural disasters.
Rethinking Productivity GrowthBERKELEY – Today, the world’s population is, on average, about 20 times richer than it was during the long Agrarian Age.
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