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The elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies and the implementation of carbon pricing are particularly important; with oil prices very low, now is the ideal time for countries to implement such reforms.
American concerns about Chinese state subsidies under the country’s Made in China 2025 strategy will be almost impossible to resolve.
Thus, German corporations will have to contribute to fiscal consolidation through reductions in subsidies and additional taxes on major energy companies, airlines, and financial institutions.
At a time when the need for food assistance is particularly high, some governments have withdrawn food subsidies and others have scaled back subsidies for agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides, hindering local food production.
The key to eliminating inefficient, unproductive subsidies to minorities is to implement tax reductions for all.
While China does produce about half of the world’s solar panels, 98% are exported to reap generous subsidies from rich-world markets.
And economic models show that France has lost as many or more jobs because of the extra costs of the subsidies.
In tradable sectors, such as manufacturing and utilities, rents were created through non-tariff protection and subsidies, leading to anemic export growth.
Entrepreneurs will not be fooled by government intervention, and will foresee that the current increase in demand for gifts will be offset in the long run by a sharp drop (as government subsidies turn into increased taxation and fewer Christmases are observed during the good times).
With output and employment remaining flat, government subsidies and additional Christmases will merely produce more debt and higher prices.
Some argue that the answer is biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, which benefit from subsidies in some places.
To this end, governments must phase out state subsidies that have encouraged profligate water use, such as in agriculture, and focus on building new market mechanisms and effective public-private partnerships.
As the Greek economics minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has said, this is attributable to European Union subsidies, which drove entrepreneurs to follow the easy money into the import sector.
Part of this effort to fight climate change must involve addressing sources of economic inefficiency, such as fossil-fuel subsidies and inadequate accounting of the cost of pollution.
However, with prices now softening, revenues can no longer cover the social subsidies that have underpinned populist rule.
This is not easy for politicians to sell, especially in the core countries (particularly Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands), as it would involve large multi-year subsidies to the periphery – or the analytical equivalent of the difficult decision made over 20 years ago to reunify Germany at a currency parity.
Large industrial subsidies – for example, to the coal industry – amount to nothing but giveaways to Yanukovych’s supporters and should be eliminated immediately.
This strategy also wins the votes of the poorest segments of society, who make up the majority of Brazil’s electorate and receive very little, but see the subsidies as “better than nothing.”
On the other hand, implicit subsidies to too-big-to-fail banks must be dropped.
No bail-outs or subsidies to prop-up the unprofitable activities of the politically powerful.
They want markets free of all subsidies and nearly all taxes.
Growth does not appear very sensitive to tax rates and subsidies.
Second, there was a fear of intevening with subsidies and taxes as incentive devices to channel the power of the market toward rebuilding inclusion.
The best tools for a comprehensive raise of low-end employment and pay are low-wage employment subsidies -- ongoing across-the-board tax credits to enterprises for their continued employment of low-wage workers.
The logic of this two-pronged strategy is that subsidies are hopeless at creating productivity growth, but good at boosting low-end jobs and pay.
This is why mandating private firms to preserve jobs and using subsidies to try to buy some growth is a recipe for disaster.
Such automatic borrower-initiated filings, if made legal by Congress, could reduce the household-debt overhang without the need for government subsidies.
But, like the fight against subsidies to businesses, these are battles that are directed against state intervention, not private companies.
Some farmers are worried about losing EU subsidies, while others think that a new framework could allow them to practice more sustainable agriculture.
And, anticipating the eventual replacement of conventional motor vehicles globally, the authorities are providing generous subsidies for domestic manufacturing.
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