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By contrast, turning creditor-country citizens’ tax payments into forced subsidies of other countries’ debts would undermine European cohesion.
Asian countries, for instance, have typically liberalized at the margin (through export subsidies or special economic zones), spurring new export industries without pulling the rug from under the rest.
But achieving such high growth rates in a sustainable way will demand far-reaching, sometimes painful reforms, such as the removal of wasteful subsidies, especially for fuel, in order to free up resources for, say, increased health-care expenditure.
Jokowi, who takes office in October, must implement policies that address rising inequality, unsustainable fuel subsidies, entrenched corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and restrictive labor laws – all while rebuilding trust in Indonesian institutions.
As a result, key problems such as Africa’s structural exclusion from global markets – which is due in large part to G20 member states’ own domestic agricultural subsidies – go unexamined.
The TTIP would eliminate all trade tariffs and reduce non-tariff barriers, including in agriculture; expand market access in services trade; bring about closer regulatory harmonization; strengthen intellectual-property protection; restrict subsidies to state-owned enterprises; and more.
The nudge can take the form of subsidies, loans, infrastructure, and other kinds of support.
Rural Cornwall, which benefits hugely from EU subsidies, voted to leave.
The cash-strapped government is slashing the subsidies that large numbers of Angolans depend on, fueling popular anger and a sense that the petro-boom enriched only the elite, leaving everyone else worse off.
While it relies on profligate subsidies and cash handouts, Thaksinomics also banks on structural reforms to propel economic growth.
Their survival required government protection, subsidies, and administrative directives.
The allergy to industrial policy is particularly acute among those who equate it with subsidies and tax breaks.
Indeed, public provision of capital and other subsidies have made the playing field uneven, with weaker institutions ending up much better capitalized than healthier ones.
Not only in banking, but in other sectors as well – with automakers at the forefront – massive subsidies are keeping inefficient incumbents in place, limiting the growth of efficient firms or, perhaps even worse, preventing market entry by new firms.
Obamacare establishes a public mandate to buy private insurance (with public subsidies for the poor) to finance services provided by (mostly) private hospitals and clinics.
One of them comes with this week’s G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, where leaders of the world’s advanced and major emerging economies can signal serious intent by cutting the fossil-fuel subsidies that fuel global warming.
Five years ago, the G-20 pledged to phase out “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies” as part of a wider strategy for combating climate change.
Yet the subsidies have continued to grow.
Fossil-fuel subsidies encourage investors to put resources into the fuels that are driving climate change.
And most of the benefits of the subsidies are captured by the middle class, not the poor.
Subsidies directed toward discovering and exploiting new fossil-fuel reserves are among the most wasteful – and the most damaging.
The Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International have provided the first financial audit of subsidies allocated specifically to the discovery of new fossil-fuel reserves by G-20 countries.
Subsidies for fossil-fuel exploration are where the politics of the greenhouse meets the economics of the madhouse.
The economic case for exploration subsidies is weak and getting weaker.
The wider damage associated with fossil-fuel subsidies is insufficiently recognized.
But the absence of credible carbon price signals, along with the perverse incentives created by fossil-fuel subsidies, continues to hold back the investments and technologies needed to drive a low-carbon transition.
Surely it is time for EU leaders to align climate targets with carbon prices – and to cut the carbon subsidies.
Redeeming the pledge to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies would also help to restore the reputation of the G-20 itself.
Most rely on government subsidies to this day.
And, while the subsidies may improve the quality of life for ordinary people in some respects, they also detract from it by suppressing domestic consumption.
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