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Indeed, WTO rules prohibit export subsidies – which, economically speaking, are enrich-thy-neighbor policies – while placing no direct restraints on export taxes.
The WTO’s prohibition on export subsidies has no real economic rationale, as I have already noted.
One way to get things moving, especially in the agricultural sector, would be to remove or redirect subsidies that encourage excessive consumption of fertilizers, water, or energy in food production.
As Indian government officials reminded their peers during a World Trade Organization meeting earlier this year, meaningful agricultural reforms can begin only when rich countries reduce the “disproportionately large” subsidies they give their own farmers.
Policies aimed at ensuring export-led growth also include export subsidies and barriers to imports.
Such FDI policies include investment subsidies, tax abatements, and exemptions from domestic regulation and laws.
In 1992, subsidized credits, export subsidies, and import subsidies generated gross rents of some $60 billion in Russia.
The illicit revenues generated from market distortions and fishy subsidies to the rich are abolished with market reforms.
Today, they are increasingly taking steps to remove subsidies, introduce market prices, and increase efficiency – policies that are more typically associated with energy-importing countries.
Should this continue, perhaps bringing a de facto end to the Maastricht criteria and rising national protectionism in the form of industrial subsidies, the euro will be seriously jeopardized.
There were so many generous subsidies, grants, and transfer payments – aimed at everyone from the truly needy to artists unable to sell their work – that after-tax wages were often barely higher than benefits.
The deliberate undervaluation of China’s currency, and the fall in the dollar, are both putting a squeeze on the export prospects of the European Union members and other countries like Canada and Mexico, and China’s covert and not so covert export subsidies and import barriers exacerbate the problem.
Instead, Bush pushed for subsidies to oil companies to encourage more domestic production.
China, which has faced sharp criticism from the US, the EU and Japan for unfair trade practices – including export subsidies, currency manipulation, intellectual-property theft, and forced technology transfer – has a particular responsibility here.
It is probable, though, that most of the new investment will have to be carried out with state subsidies.
Forget about America's rhetoric of upholding fairness and justice; in trade negotiations, the US ignores the pleas of the poorest countries of the world to eliminate the cotton subsidies that have had so devastating an effect on them.
In the United States employee ownership has been promoted by large tax subsidies and by exceptional provisions in pension laws.
As a result, large enterprises – mostly SOEs, which enjoy considerable financial subsidies and liquidity – accounted for 43% of total bank loans in 2011; small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which face financial repression, including higher borrowing costs and tight liquidity, accounted for only 27%.
Fossil-fuel industries must have their subsidies cut off.
With the oil-price drop that started in mid-2014, the first priority became clear: reform fossil-fuel subsidies before prices go back up.
These subsidies have sapped government budgets, encouraged wasteful energy use, and increased pollution and carbon-dioxide emissions.
Indonesia has moved away from gasoline subsidies.
Money saved from ending subsidies can be better used to create safety nets that protect the poor when energy prices rise.
But phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, while critical, is only a first step in the right direction.
Consider, for example, a government policy in which subsidies, funded with newly printed money, are handed out to residents of 1,000 villages.
Last but not least, the core emerging economies have abstained from increasing tariffs, and their stimulus packages grant much more limited subsidies to the banking and automobile sectors than do comparable packages in OECD countries.
How could developing countries compete with America’s subsidies and guarantees?
GCC policymakers have been right to focus on increasing access and subsidies for quality health care.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that in 2016, investment in the oil and gas sector totaled $649 billion, and that fossil-fuel subsidies within the G20 countries amounted to $72 billion.
Because of rising energy prices from green subsidies, 800,000 German households can no longer pay their electricity bills.
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