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Beyond official transfers, this means halting private efforts by individual citizens to fund terror.
The assumption that what matters, for example, is the smallness or largeness, of the state -- or the size of transfers to low-income people -- does not fit the facts.
Singapore does not redistribute income as aggressively as Denmark, choosing instead to maintain lower taxes and concentrate transfers on low-income individuals.
In particular, the African model appears to be underpinned by positive aggregate demand shocks generated either by transfers from abroad or by productivity growth in agriculture.
Indeed, it is estimated that one-third of all bilateral US-EU trade consists of internal transfers by companies that operate in both markets.
When these factors are weighed against the benefits in monetary terms, each dollar spent ending extreme poverty with cash transfers would achieve about $5 worth of social value.
Each of these proposals – full employment, cash transfers, broadband rollout, freer migration, and lower trade barriers – is covered by at least one of the UN’s 169 development targets.
Conditional cash transfers, text-message-based initiatives, school-based food programs, vitamin-fortification schemes, and local leadership have all proved effective in improving maternal nutrition.
Meanwhile, the European Central Bank’s integrated payment system enabled regular transfers to continue between peripheral and core banks, which sustained commercial activity and financing through the worst parts of the crisis.
The two key arrangements that most economists emphasized were fiscal transfers, which could cushion shocks in badly affected regions, and labor mobility, which would allow workers from such regions to move to less affected ones.
Such reform is essential if the international financial system is to mediate the sizeable resource transfers that will underpin the required changes in the structure of global demand.
On the other hand, total transfers have a much bigger equalizing effect on incomes.
Cash transfers, like social security and unemployment insurance, are highly equalizing.
When the value of non-cash government benefits, like Medicaid, Medicare, and Food Stamps, are also included, total transfers become extremely progressive.
But government spending on goods and services, like education, highways, police, and sanitation, has distributional consequences, too, and can be allocated to actual beneficiaries in much the same way as government transfers.
When you add together government transfers and public consumption and subtract taxes paid, you get a figure for net government expenditures.
The extremely progressive nature of net government expenditures comes about equally from government transfers and public spending; very little is contributed by taxes.
Government spending, no less than government transfers, has actual beneficiaries.
Tax havens make economic crime more profitable, and the only way to fight them is to adopt global agreements on transparency in financial transfers, which should also cover companies on a country-to-country basis.
In other political unions, cohesion is maintained through a strong common identity, but often also through permanent fiscal transfers between richer and poorer regions that even out incomes ex post.
In the euro area, such one-way transfers between countries are not foreseen (transfers do exist as part of the EU’s cohesion policy, but are limited in size and are primarily designed to support the “catching-up” process in lower income countries or regions).
The second implication of the absence of fiscal transfers is that countries need to invest more in other mechanisms to share the cost of shocks.
Still, over the longer run, there is no guarantee that any central bank will be able to hold the line in the face of adverse shocks such as continuing slow productivity growth, high debt levels, and pressure to reduce inequality through government transfers.
But, in view of the negotiations – set to begin in 2018 – on a European fiscal union (implying systematic transfers from the EU’s north to its south), it wouldn’t hurt if Germany and the Netherlands knew what would happen if they did not sign a possible treaty.
The revamped growth compact would more effectively allocate European resources and increase the flexibility of permanent transfers from rich to poor countries – provided that the money is used for productive investment.
Van Rompuy’s budget would also help to stabilize the eurozone in the event that asymmetric shocks require temporary transfers from unaffected to crisis-stricken countries.
While wealth transfers are usual for Americans, they remain controversial in Europe, where countries fought bloody wars not long ago.
But, in order to maintain the continent’s economic and political stability, wealth transfers are crucial.
However, these positive transfers are countered by negative transfers from the inertia of corruption and rent-seeking.
Household income support should run on twin tracks: cash transfers, already well-established, and basic employment assurance, which lags well behind needs.
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