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The EU’s Eastern European members initially resisted taking their share of the 120,000; but, dependent on fiscal transfers from the EU’s wealthier members, they fell into line after diplomatic arm-twisting similar to that administered to Greece.
In response to the recent protests, the government has proposed an additional risk-sharing scheme: some (thus far undecided) part of a five-percentage-point increase in the mandatory retirement savings rate, to be paid by employers, will go to a “solidarity fund” that can finance transfers to people receiving low pensions.
Transfers of wealth on the scale of what took place between West and East Germany won’t happen.
The new prize arose from a longstanding conflict between the interests of the better off in stable prices and the interests of everybody else in reducing insecurity by means of taxation, social investment, and transfers.
In a genuine currency union, wealth transfers and automatic stabilizers mean that such discrepancies do not pose a problem.
Indeed, for ten years, north-to-south income transfers and lending financed excessive aggregate demand, making the eurozone seem stable.
Second, wealth transfers to peripheral countries, while controversial, are necessary.
Currency unions require a mechanism for permanent transfers to poorer regions.
The EU budget should facilitate such transfers in the eurozone, using structural funds.
Tax transfers should also act as an automatic stabilizer in the case of asymmetric shocks.
Generous but targeted and performance-oriented social transfers, conditional on participation in health and basic education programs, will have to replace the old, largely untargeted subsidies.
These transfers leave thousands of fishing-dependent communities struggling to compete with subsidized rivals and threaten the food security of millions of people as industrial fleets from distant lands deplete their oceanic stocks.
A high priority should be given to increasing pro-poor fiscal transfers.
Achieving equity through fiscal transfers can ensure a level playing field.
China’s over-damming of rivers and its inter-river and inter-basin water transfers have already wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems, causing river fragmentation and depletion and promoting groundwater exploitation beyond the natural replenishment capacity.
Conditional cash transfers are also widely accepted in poor countries, and de facto they involve paying mothers to do such things as send their children to school or take them to clinics to be vaccinated.
The most immediate question concerns the possibility of another Israel-Hezbollah war, fears of which have mounted throughout this year, fueled by reports of new missile transfers to Hezbollah and intermittent threats from Israel.
And while the WTO prohibits member countries from conditioning market access on such mandatory technology transfers, the Chinese have responded that nothing is mandatory, because companies do not have to do business in China.
Instead of making a large swath of the population dependent on transfers earned by others, Germany’s leaders should ensure that all workers receive the training needed to pursue opportunities in the labor market of the future.
More to the point, Germany cannot indefinitely keep taxes low while offering generous social transfers to lower-skill workers; eventually, its welfare system would collapse.
Giving voice to German “transfer fatigue”, the FDP is adamantly opposed to any arrangement that transfers German money to underperforming member states.
Solidarity in Europe cannot be construed as a moral obligation of some to help others; there simply is no sense of community in the current EMU that could support permanent fiscal transfers from one region to another.
Solidarity can also be interpreted as enlightened self-interest, a form of reciprocity from which everyone benefits in turn – without permanent transfers.
Alternatively, economists might recommend compensating the losers from economic change, through social transfers and other benefits.
Leaving aside the feasibility of such transfers, it is doubtful that they are the solution.
Private Wealth and European SolidarityCOLOGNE – A little-discussed but crucial factor in the debate over wealth transfers from Europe’s more economically sound north to its troubled south is the relationship between public debt, GDP, and private wealth (households’ financial and non-financial assets, minus their financial liabilities) – in particular, the ratio of private wealth to GDP in the eurozone countries.
Other solutions may include conditional cash transfers, scholarships for girls, the construction of schools in remote areas, blended learning programs, new facilities for disabled learners, and incentives for teachers to work in difficult conditions.
Britain and even Germany have higher inequality of income before taxes and transfers than the US.
The US spends a much smaller share of GDP on family-assistance programs – including cash transfers, tax breaks, and direct government services – than its developed-country counterparts, where reliance on regressive consumption taxes to fund progressive transfer programs has kept income inequality significantly lower.
Both taxes and transfers became less progressive as market-income inequality widened.
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