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This explains the almost continuous stream of measures that emanate from Beijing these days: increased public spending, monetary easing, pressure on state enterprises to expand activity, subsidies to exporters, partial convertibility of the remninbi to spur trade with neighboring countries, and so on.
Finally, by cutting energy subsidies and depositing the payments directly in people’s bank accounts, Iran’s government increased household cash holdings and the market’s overall liquidity.
But this created a gap in the government’s balance sheet between direct payments and the savings from the cut in subsidies.
As in the 1980s, the region’s governments today have tied oil revenues to consumption subsidies, public-sector employment, and public investment.
Decoupling oil revenues from public subsidies will require a new social contract that is based less on guaranteed consumption and more on personal autonomy.
To increase productivity while preserving social stability, subsidies should be removed with the goal of improving efficiency, not simply to make fiscal cuts.
With respect to economic interests, all governments look for ways to help their countries’ own industries, whether through regulation, subsidies, or trade barriers.
This sort of behavior – with activists and big energy companies uniting to applaud anything that suggests a need for increased subsidies to alternative energy – was famously captured by the so-called “bootleggers and Baptists” theory of politics.
Of course, he would also have been one of the major investors in the wind-power and natural-gas companies that would benefit from government subsidies.
Businesses see opportunities for taxpayer-funded subsidies, and to pass on inevitable cost growth to consumers.
Those of us with a long history in the EU will understand the difficulties of this better than most, and for some West African countries, rolling back costly and inefficient but politically popular subsidies will be difficult.
At the core of the agreement concluded by Juncker and Trump was the understanding that the European Union and the United States will “work together toward zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods,” with no new trade barriers in the meantime.
Those behind the problem – the world’s biggest polluters – continue to reap billions in profits, while receiving huge energy subsidies from governments (projected to reach $5.3 trillion in 2015, or about $10 million per minute).
To take one example, small business owners subscribe to electric service as individual consumers and can even qualify for subsidies of up to 80%.
It's not just a question of providing access, but of eliminating the subsidies that encourage production in rich countries and harm farmers in poor countries.
The numbers are truly alarming: subsidies in advanced countries exceed the total income of sub-Saharan Africa; the average European subsidy per cow matches the $2 per day poverty level on which billions of people barely subsist;America's $4 billion cotton subsidies to 25,000 well-off farmers bring misery to 10 million African farmers and more than offset America's miserly foreign aid to some of the affected countries.
But it has long been recognized that subsidies can be just as destructive as tariffs – and even less fair, since rich countries can better afford them.
If there was ever a level playing field in the global economy, it no longer exists: the massive subsidies and bailouts provided by the US have changed everything, perhaps irreversibly.
While one can understand the domestic political imperatives that have led to subsidies and guarantees, developed countries need to recognize the global consequences, and provide compensatory assistance to developing countries.
Fossil-fuel and water subsidies have contributed to both problems.
Their objections range from lower farm subsidies for the candidate countries to the new decision-making mechanism in the EU that was adopted at the Nice summit two years ago.
But countries with less generous oil endowments need to implement economic reforms and eliminate subsidies.
And Indonesia should save almost $14 billion by scrapping gasoline subsidies and capping support for diesel fuel.
Subsidies will not produce efficient high-tech firms.
But many European countries still refuse to accept that some of their high-tech firms might not make it: better, they think, to keep them alive with generous subsidies, and in the meantime avoid the consolidation of EU defense budgets.
The government has a number of options for new revenue, including a reform of wasteful energy subsidies and the introduction of levies that are standard in the G-20, such as value-added tax.
These so-called indirect subsidies can quickly cause an immense economic mess.
In Venezuela, subsidies for gasoline and electricity are larger than the budget for education and health care combined; exchange-rate subsidies are in a class of their own.
Indirect subsidies are also regressive, because the rich consume more than the poor – and hence appropriate more of the subsidy.
Over the past decades, various interest groups staked out powerful claims to protection and subsidies, while ambitious politicians regulated most areas of the European economy.
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