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None of this would have been possible without government subsidies.
The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for expensive specialized equipment, including jack-up barges, heavy-lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high-strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.
The most effective subsidies are simple and stable, as in the German model.
Labor rules that favor job creation – what Scandinavian countries call active labor-market policies – are needed: a combination of information, training, and subsidies that help overcome what are typically serious failures in the market for young workers with limited skills and experience.
As a result, the rules that govern trade, such as anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties to offset illegal subsidies, were in the domain of both the WTO and the PTAs.
The funding can be direct, through institutions like the Defense Department or the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or indirect, via tax breaks, procurement practices, and subsidies to academic labs or research centers.
The country’s irrational energy policy, based on immensely wasteful subsidies to consumers, must be fundamentally altered.
Don’t the farm subsidies and other forms of support in the United States and European Union undercut the livelihood of millions of poor farmers?
It has been several years since private investors and states began buying and leasing millions of hectares of farmland worldwide in order to secure their domestic supply of food, raw commodities, and biofuels, or to get subsidies for carbon storage through plantations.
Four years ago, big Russian companies were interested in state subsidies, not structural reforms.
The new revolution in economics may find a place for strategies based on affecting ideals and identities, not just taxes and subsidies.
Another largely unexplored possibility would be to set targets for phasing out environmentally damaging and socially detrimental subsidies.
Globally, such subsidies, like those offered by the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, draining budgets and often doing nothing for the poor.
Another important policy approach is active intervention in the labor market, including counseling, job-search assistance, hiring subsidies for low-skill youth, and income support for young people actively searching for work.
But it is Europe that has been living in a fantasy: a “post-historical” world where military power does not matter, subsidies can tame nationalist forces, and leaders are law-abiding, well-mannered gentlemen and women.
Their management of the economy, which included a deluge of subsidies, reduced unemployment and poverty.
As a result, if the price of soy continues to fall, subsidies – a source of corruption and patronage – will be an increasingly heavy burden for public spending.
According to unofficial figures, subsidies already represent 5% of GDP, and only painful adjustments can reduce them.
The extent of subsidies in this sector is stunning and, under current policies, will only increase over time – thereby primarily supporting the lifestyles of the top 1% of people in very rich countries.
Well-meaning US politicians have likewise shown how not to tackle global warming with subsidies and tax breaks.
A big step would be to increase women’s control over land ownership and farming decisions, along with access to agricultural credits and subsidies designed to encourage domestic food production through home gardening and cattle and poultry husbandry.
Moreover, agricultural policies, subsidies, and investments have traditionally benefited cereal farmers.
But offshore wind power is so expensive that it will receive at least three times the traded cost of regular electricity in subsidies – more than even solar power, which was never at an advantage in the UK.
The UK would pay at least $8 billion annually in subsidies to support this inherently inefficient technology.
But economic research convincingly shows that while subsidies can buy extra jobs, they eventually have to be financed with increased taxes, costing an equal number of jobs elsewhere.
Mindless subsidies that we cannot afford will not create a green economy; what will is investment in research and development to bring down costs, so that green energy eventually can outcompete gas.
Nor can we rely on renewable energies that provide inconsistent supplies and require subsidies.
Likewise, state-sponsored demand should not take the form of subsidies to specific technologies or companies; the government has no business gambling taxpayer money on particular ventures.
But genuinely beneficial agricultural reform would need to go further than merely transforming export subsidies into other types of subsidies, because many supposedly non-distorting subsidies lead to more output, which hurts producers in developing countries by lowering prices.
But some subsidies, like cotton subsidies in the United States, are rightly emblematic of America's bad faith.
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