Transfer
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The
transfer
of potentially strategic information about ports into foreign and perhaps unfriendly hands clearly carries with it national security risks.
This would require accepting massive losses on public and private debt, as well as enormous
transfer
payments that boost the periphery’s income while its output stagnates.
Dividend payments made by under-capitalized banks amount to a substantial wealth
transfer
from subordinated bondholders to shareholders, because it is bondholders who will suffer the losses in a crisis.
Moreover, it is potentially a wealth
transfer
from taxpayers to private shareholders, because under new banking rules government bailouts are possible after bondholders have covered (bailed in) 8% of a bank’s equity and liabilities.
Financial players use derivatives to
transfer
risk: one player assumes the risk of, say, euro fluctuation, but doesn’t want yen risk, while for another, it’s the opposite.
President Vladimir Putin has already warned Russians that they face austerity, because the government will no longer be able to afford the
transfer
benefits that it provided in recent years.
Other EU
transfer
payments would also be disbursed by the EMF under strict scrutiny, or they could be used to pay down the defaulting country’s debt to the EMF.
The US did file a complaint with the World Trade Organization earlier this year after an extensive investigation confirmed that the Chinese violate their WTO obligations by requiring foreign firms that do business in China to have a domestic partner and to
transfer
technology to that firm.
This would include the Chinese policy of requiring US firms to
transfer
technology to Chinese partners as a condition of doing business in China, as well as the Chinese practice of taking technology directly from US firms through cyber espionage and other illegal methods.
Similarly, mismatch problems hindered the
transfer
of human resources from declining to expanding sectors.
Private-sector flows have been much larger throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well, owing to attractive conditions for foreign direct investment – much of it comprising long-term projects with associated benefits like knowledge
transfer
and the introduction of international best practices.
The “endogenous” factors contributing to wide-scale regulatory capture and corporate rentierism can be addressed with stronger antitrust legislation, policies to empower organized labor, revisions to existing trade agreements, and better monitoring, at the international level, of
transfer
pricing and tax evasion.
Any country required by its public-pension policy to
transfer
billions of dollars to citizens for decades-long retirement periods risks bankruptcy or, at best, stagnation.
First, front-loaded fiscal austerity – however necessary – is accelerating the contraction, as higher taxes and lower government spending and
transfer
payments reduce disposable income and aggregate demand.
Reform of the hukou (residency permit) system to allow citizens to
transfer
their welfare benefits from one city to another is vital for an increasingly flexible labor force that now includes almost 200 million migrant workers.
China conditions these investments on technology
transfer
– a point highlighted by the US Trade Representative in a report released earlier this year, and now one of Trump’s talking points.
China’s insistence on technology
transfer
increases the short-term cost of doing business (for US and other foreign direct investors) and creates the threat of future competition from Chinese firms.
But one troubling factor remains: the emergence of a dual labor market, in which low-wage and temporary workers find it hard to
transfer
out of inadequate working conditions into the mainstream labor market.
It is inconceivable that national policymakers, seeing to their countries’ own interests, would prevent these arrangements from mutating into permanent asymmetric
transfer
schemes.
In the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa recorded a "net
transfer"
(new borrowing minus debt service on past loans) of negative $11 billion.
Together, they will form not just a road, but a network to facilitate the
transfer
of goods and ideas across Eurasia.
Criticism of large European
transfer
payments may have some justification, say, insofar as French, Greek, and Italian civil servants could indeed retire young.
The same is true of forced technology transfers, although the Chinese position is that American firms that want to operate in China voluntarily agree to
transfer
technology in exchange for the right to produce and sell in China.
Second, the EU, with its technical, financial, and market strengths, is China’s largest trade partner and a major source of technology
transfer.
The current-account balance, measuring the balance of trade in goods, services, net factor income, and
transfer
payments from abroad, is equal to national saving minus domestic investment.
For example, Ghana’s smooth
transfer
of power after the December 2016 election set a positive democratic example.
While British authorities recently announced that the
transfer
of physical checks would be abolished, a two-day check-clearing delay will remain.
Climate Change: Asia needs to build up innovative markets that enable technology
transfer.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data,
transfer
cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
A more promising development is that, according to the Third Plenum road map, farmers must receive a fair share of the profits from land-value appreciation, and will be entitled to
transfer
their land or use it as collateral.
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