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The Copenhagen Accord included a commitment by rich countries to spend $100 billion a year after 2020 to help underdeveloped countries mitigate and adapt to climate change.
This indicates we should be willing to spend perhaps 20% of trade benefits on helping the losers from trade deals, through job training and transitional social-welfare benefits to ameliorate the risks.
Many libertarians like the concept, because it enables – indeed, requires – recipients to choose freely how to spend the money.
For example, rising food prices tend to hurt the poor, especially the urban poor, who spend a large share of their income on food; unlike agricultural workers, they receive none of the benefits of higher food prices.
When e-mail first came into vogue, one could spend 15-20 minutes a day on it; now it consumes 2-3 hours.
To be sure, preventive medicine is not easily incorporated into health-care strategies, which is why OECD countries typically don’t spend significantly on it.
All the while, British consumers have done what they do best: spend their money in stores and online.
The Obama administration came out with a plan to spend up to $1 trillion dollars to buy banks’ toxic assets, but the plan has been put on hold.
Most European countries now spend less than 2% of GDP on defense;China spends slightly more than 2%; and the US spends about 3.5%.
According to the World Bank, only nine countries in the world, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel, spend more than 4% of GDP on their militaries.
With credit exhausted, the effects on aggregate demand of decades of redistribution of income and wealth – from labor to capital, from wages to profits, from poor to rich, and from households to corporate firms – have become severe, owing to the lower marginal propensity of firms/capital owners/rich households to spend.
Germans collectively spend less than they produce, and the difference necessarily shows up as net exports.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that German households, being voracious savers themselves, will spend the additional income.
The CCP’s leaders have already decided that Bo is guilty and must spend years in jail (the scale of Bo’s alleged bribe-taking ensures a sentence of 15-20 years).
Higher household saving depresses consumption because it is the difference between households’ after-tax income and what they spend.
Rising house prices also allowed homeowners to refinance their mortgages, obtaining additional cash to spend on other things.
If this reduction continues after the economy recovers – as seems likely, given the cost-containment incentives in the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) – the US stands to spend $2 trillion less on health care over the coming decade.
For example, a decade ago, contracts promising a steady supply of Argentine gas at pre-set prices led Chile to spend billions refitting its power stations.
And, as US marketing campaigns focus on first-generation consumers – those raised on Big Macs abroad, without knowledge of the associated health risks – some members of minority groups now spend a substantial portion of their disposable income at fast-food restaurants.
These companies spend €16 billion per year on goods, services, and wages in Ireland.
With the government losing $4.5 billion every year by subsidizing passenger fares, it has little money to spend on upgrading infrastructure, improving safety standards, or speeding up the trains.
And if consumers spend smaller shares of their disposable income on each purchase they make, they will have room to consume more, thus boosting overall economic activity.
As any student of economics understands, this kind of situation decreases overall welfare, because every consumer will be forced to pay the maximum of what they are willing to spend for each good or service they purchase, keeping nothing “extra” for themselves.
Yet if the detailed accusations are justified, the blame probably lies more, either with the previous Commission of Jacques Delors (now long out of office), rather than the present Commission presided by Jacques Santer, or else with the Member States, who spend 80% of the Union budget.
In a nutshell: it is wasteful to spend too much money preventing waste.
Valle had asked the court to halt his execution, on the grounds that to spend so long on death row is “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore prohibited by the US constitution.
Justice Stephen Breyer agreed that to spend 33 years in prison awaiting execution is cruel.
Instead, she will have to start with a $185,000 application fee to ICANN, and spend thousands more on lawyers to study and fill in application forms.
It’s worth it to them to spend their time at ICANN meetings (or to send staffers), whereas domain names are just a small part of customers’ and user’ lives.
In rich economies, consumers spend the bulk of their income on services such as health, education, transportation, housing, and retail goods.
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