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Although the French-speaking Belgians started the European Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, they are now living in a deprived rustbelt in need of federal subsidies, a substantial amount of which comes from taxes paid by the more prosperous, high-tech Flemish.
The EU partly shares America’s strategic objective here, because it, too, has grievances against emerging powers in terms of market access, compliance with intellectual-property rights, access to government procurement, and subsidies to state companies.
Though Ukraine’s economy is collapsing, the government maintains excessive spending on subsidies that are incompatible with IMF aid.
Though the tourism industry is likely to be moribund for some time, Russian subsidies may leave Crimeans relatively better off, especially from the perspective of their ethnic kin in eastern Ukraine.
Countries such as India and China stabilize retail energy markets through government-financed subsidies to keep price down for consumers.
The costs of these subsidies had become quite massive as oil prices peaked, and many countries were already looking hard for ways to cut back.
Thus, as oil prices have fallen, emerging-market governments have taken advantage of the opportunity to reduce the fiscal subsidies.
Thus, low prices should continue to support growth, even if emerging-market importers continue to use the savings to cut subsidies.
Only where subsidies were drastically curtailed, and the market unleashed, has production started to revive as new businesses began to pick up the slack.
They might have to abolish mis-targeted subsidies to free up resources for more targeted and efficient anti-poverty and job-creation programs.
We could not afford to raise salaries or provide subsidies for everybody.
Yet we recognize that continuing to pour trillions of dollars into carbon-based infrastructure and fossil-fuel subsidies is like investing in sub-prime real estate.
China’s future prosperity requires restricting government officials’ administrative discretion, reducing state-owned enterprises’ power and subsidies, and strengthening the rule of law by developing an independent judiciary.
It is the remaining 20%, involving technology and industrial subsidies, that are non-negotiable for China.
The failure of private firms that lack access to subsidies or affordable financing deters others from innovating and challenging the status quo.
Meanwhile, SOEs – which can invest in excess capacity, record net losses (often through corruption and incompetence), and count on government subsidies – never face a reckoning.
Massive subsidies are needed to finance the raw material inputs of state companies, and these consume the bulk of the government's oil revenues (10% of GDP).
Subsidies combined with a bloated civil service (there are over 2 million state employees) generate chronic budget deficits, estimated at 5% of GDP in 1998-99.
Rapid demographic decline has been brought to a halt since the turn of the century (a time when coffins outnumbered cribs by seven to four), as generous government subsidies for a third child have boosted the fertility rate from its 1999 low of 1.16 children per woman to 1.58 in 2010.
Fourth, channel aid through the central government budget, or through local authorities, so that officials can acquire legitimacy by providing services and infrastructure, and provide subsidies and price-support programs to replace poppies with licit crops such as cotton, which was produced in the past.
Other policies – including universal pre-school education and universal health care – may even promote overall economic growth while reducing inequality, especially if they are financed by efficiency-enhancing measures such as the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies (and, preferably, their replacement with a tax).
The original rationale for agricultural subsidies was largely to help small farmers, but the main beneficiary has long been agribusiness.
Mortgage subsidies contributed to the subprime loan crisis, without even primarily helping lower-income families.
Of the more than $400 billion that countries spend on fossil fuel subsidies each year, for example, far less than 20% of the benefits go to the poorest 20% of the population.
“Yes” to the EITC and pre-school education; “no” to subsidies for oil, agriculture, and mortgage debt.
China is brutally ordered – outside any multilateral framework – to import more, export less, cut subsidies, refrain from purchasing US tech companies, and respect intellectual property rights.
Inefficiencies were masked by generous subsidies from the national treasury, and a combination of vested interests – socialist ideologues, bureaucratic managers, trade unions, and monopolies – kept it beyond political criticism.
The only economic policy put into effect took the form of industrial subsidies.
Modi pledged to make the tough decisions that the UPA could not, weaning Indians from the statist culture of “doles” and subsidies, while pursuing bold policies aimed at spurring economic growth and job creation.
Instead of eliminating this system, as expected, Modi’s government has augmented subsidies for sugar exports to support higher output, raised import duties on sugar to discourage foreign competition, and increased the percentage of sugar-based ethanol that must be blended with petrol.
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