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Western Union charges fees as high as 25% on transfers to these countries, compared to an average global benchmark of 5%, and has required that Franc-Zone countries sign exclusivity agreements, thereby preventing foreign-exchange bureaux, post offices, and micro-finance institutions from carrying out money transfers.
During the oil boom, the state increased public-sector wages and social-welfare transfers – and thus was a major contributor to households’ growing prosperity.
As for the new state, it should be obligated to maintain at least the same level of fiscal transfers as before.
Rich Veneto could secede from Italy, for example, as long as it maintained its fiscal transfers to the South.
The ICIJ investigation – which details cash transfers, incorporation dates, and links between companies and well-known individuals – demonstrates the massive scale of the offshore industry.
The key to recovery, then, is to tax the rich, increase transfers, and restore worker incomes by enhancing union bargaining power and raising minimum wages.
This will not be easy or quick, but it beats having corrosively high levels of inequality of opportunity, as well as a large segment of the population dependent on transfers.
As anyone with experience in development policy knows, fiscal transfers cannot generate convergence growth, unless they are backed by deep societal changes – and that demands active local leadership.
In an open economy, fears of higher taxes may spur capital flight and a run against the domestic banks, requiring even bigger government transfers.
Elites in emerging and developing countries are using the SDG negotiations primarily as a platform to call for international aid transfers.
President Barack Obama’s administration seems to think that the problem is one of demand, and has passed stimulus measure after stimulus measure, reducing taxes and increasing transfers and government spending in order to boost consumption and investment.
It needs a mechanism for temporary transfers to countries that have put their public finances in order but are hit by adverse shocks.
To be clear, this is not an argument for Germany’s dreaded “transfer union” – ongoing transfers to countries like Greece.
It is an argument for temporary transfers to countries like Spain, which balanced its budgets prior to the crisis but then was hit by the housing slump and recession.
Lula did not invent conditional cash transfers: he just expanded and changed the name of a program that he inherited.
Foreign direct investment (FDI), for example, can aid growth, because it is long term, involves investment in the real economy, and is often accompanied by technology or skill transfers.
Liberals and social democrats supported a private-ownership economy, markets, European integration, and increased trade, tempered by substantially redistributive taxes and transfers, a strong social safety net, and some public ownership in areas such as infrastructure and finance.
The presidential election on January 14 was the first of the transfers of power in China and Taiwan that will take place this year.
The study concludes that the benefits from transfers are “much less persistent, and much smaller overall, than those of tax changes.”
But these mechanisms must be distinguished from a regime of more or less automatic, permanent transfers.
As long as a fully-fledged political union remains a vision for the future, fiscal transfers must be legitimized by national parliaments.
Accordingly, calls for German leadership will disappear and its strained public finances will suppress requests for financial transfers.
According to China’s Ministry of Land Resources, there were more than 90,000 cases of illegal land transfers last year, yet there were precious few prosecutions.
Public debate instead highlights the need for restricting government activities and reducing social transfers.
Politics will make such transfers impossible, but even if that were not the case, the new members lack the political, economic, social, and administrative infrastructure to absorb them.
Candidate countries, however, are poorer still, so the full application of these regional policies would call for large extra budgetary transfers to Central and Eastern Europe.
Indeed, as part of their claimed desire to protect the nation’s sovereignty, governments in developing and emerging countries now regard cash transfers from rich countries for, say, democratization processes, with far more suspicion than they did in the 1990s.
Technology transfers from academia aren’t going so well, either.
That would reduce demand even more, causing a further fall in revenue and a further increase in transfers – and thus a bigger fiscal deficit and calls for further fiscal tightening.
As a result, fear could become a self-fulfilling prophecy: following a run by investors on all other sovereign debtors in the union, fiscal transfers would become inevitable in order to rescue overextended – for example, German – banks that have highly risky loan portfolios.
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