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But a variety of political constraints – particularly the fact that fiscally strapped economies slash capital spending before cutting public-sector wages, subsidies, and other current spending – are holding back the needed infrastructure boom.
A report released in August by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, of which I am a member, found that if the world moved toward a low-carbon economy – for example, by phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, halting deforestation, and putting more electric vehicles on the road – $26 trillion could be added to the global economy by 2030.
Enhancing competition will mean putting emphasis on antitrust policy and reducing state subsidies.
Enormous subsidies, mainly from local budgets, are allocated for housing.
These subsidies are also intended to be used to raise wages (first of all, for public employees) and pensions.
Likewise, Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago really does appear to believe that large falls in the employment-to-population ratio are best seen as “great vacations” – and as the side-effect of destructive government policies like those in place today, which lead workers to quit their jobs so they can get higher government subsidies to refinance their mortgages.
Biofuel subsidies contributed to rising food prices, and their swift growth was reined in only when models showed that up to another 135 million people could starve by 2020.
In addition, governments introduced modest subsidies and regulations to encourage conservation and renewable energy sources.
In the last two years, however, the Ukrainian government has standardized energy pricing and eliminated subsidies (which had amounted to 10% of GDP and fueled illicit financial flows).
Last year the government put its finances in order by cutting wasteful and corrupt expenditures, such as enterprise subsidies.
The second is to increase voters’ spending power through populist subsidies and transfers, which typically tend to be directed toward the politically influential rather than the truly needy.
Why should there be any reason for hope, especially given that US environmental policy has been predicated on the unrealistic belief that relatively small subsidies to new energy technologies can substitute for tax-induced price incentives for producers and consumers?
It also means that today’s status quo -- big government, the nation and welfare state, comfortable middle class subsidies -- is probably doomed.
Subsidies became pervasive; unemployment was treated with handouts; there was money for states to do everything – or so it seemed.
Liberalizing labor markets, cutting pervasive red-tape and subsidies would have produced more taxpayers and fewer hangers-on.
By pursuing fiscal reform one sector at a time, Zhao left room for local governments to form alliances with SOEs, which provided subsidies to local bodies and enabled them to withhold income from the central government.
In 2010, only 8% of some $400 billion in fossil-fuel subsidies reached the poorest 20% of the population.
They urge China’s government to reduce its export subsidies and to allow the yuan to appreciate, expecting such measures to reduce their trade deficits, help their economies recover, and create more jobs.
One implication, for example, is that the heavy subsidies given in the US for fuel production from maize and soybeans are misguided.
The EU may not have imposed sweeping quotas and tariffs, but powerful “behind the border” protectionism has emerged in the form of subsidies, bailouts, “buy national” injunctions, and new restrictions on foreign direct investment.
Lukashenko was forced by the removal of Russian oil-price subsidies in 2009 to beg, borrow, or steal enough funds to keep Belarus’s economy from collapsing.
In 1954, then-Senator John F. Kennedy wrote a long, fascinating article in The Atlantic in which he attributed this undesirable dislocation in New England to tax subsidies in southern states.
To be sure, the US has long provided subsidies to owner-occupied housing – mostly through the tax deduction for mortgage interest.
As he points out, the relevant studies show that the megabanks receive large implicit government subsidies, and this encourages them to stay big – and to take on a lot of risk.
In principle, such subsidies are supposed to be phased out through measures being taken as a result of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation.
In practice, these subsidies – and the politics that makes them possible – are firmly entrenched.
Thus, the magnitude of subsidies needed in a decade or two will be lower than they are today.
But things are less clear when it comes to government subsidies or currency manipulation.
The Danish wind industry is nearly completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies to support a modest workforce.
Of course, China does have huge firms, but they are inefficient state-owned behemoths that owe their size and profitability to their legal monopolies and government subsidies.
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