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Moreover, if Europeans target social expenditure better, they might achieve a greater reduction in inequality with a lower level of social transfers.
Even where high levels of social transfers actually do reduce inequality (and therefore presumably increase cohesion), they may undermine inter-communal relations if ethnic minorities are perceived as being strong net beneficiaries.
European cohesion funds account for only a fraction of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10% of national income is typically spent on social transfers.
If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe’s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.
To prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, swift action needs to be taken: restoration of the market mechanism; exchange-rate unification (as President Mauricio Macri just implemented in Argentina); an alternative system of social transfers to substitute for rationing; fiscal retrenchment; orderly foreign-debt restructuring; and massive financial support from the international community.
The transfer documentation reportedly was regularly stripped of key details such as the destination of wire transfers, so that the transaction would be harder to investigate and less likely to provide evidence of malfeasance.
Pension expenditures account for over 16% of GDP, and transfers from the budget to the pension system are close to 10% of GDP.
Furthermore, social transfers, including unemployment benefits, should have allowed households to stabilize their consumption.
Increasing social transfers during the post-crisis period would have boosted aggregate demand and smoothed out consumption patterns.
Shut out on transfers of military technology and hardware by the United States ever since the Tiennamen Square incident of 1989; feeling increasingly "encircled" by the "redefined" Japan-U.S. Alliance (agreed in April 1996);China is particularly anxious to upgrade and strengthen its military might, and quickly.
Normally, a country’s current-account deficit (trade deficit minus transfers from other countries) is financed with foreign private capital.
Likewise, so-called digital wallets and mobile transfers are efforts to improve payments and settlement in a retail financial sector that gets a lot less attention than its institutional peers.
Hats off, first, to Mexico for pioneering the idea of “conditional cash transfers” to poor households.
These transfers enable and encourage those households to invest in their children’s health, nutrition, and schooling.
Disagreement with this criticism is difficult, because the German federal system itself relies on transfers.
Meanwhile, Russia has said that it is developing its own system for financial transfers, to protect itself from being shut out of the SWIFT system in the event of harsher US sanctions.
Rouhani has also hiked energy prices by 50%, without increasing cash transfers to the poor.
The government was then compelled to implement another round of stimulus policies in 2012-2014, which included a sizable package of tax exemptions, local-content requirements, and credit expansion via transfers of public debt to state-owned banks.
And an EU-level social-welfare state funded through taxes on corporate or personal income would require large transfers among countries, exacerbating already-high tensions among EU member states.
For the US, the most important trade issue with China concerns technology transfers, not Chinese exports of subsidized steel and aluminum.
In my view, US negotiators will use the threat of imposing the tariffs on Chinese producers as a way to persuade China’s government to abandon the policy of “voluntary” technology transfers.
In any case, the lions share of public expenditures goes to pensions, transfers, and public sector salaries.
One of the key challenges the opposition faces is what to do about the massive transfers of wealth to Cuba that began in 2004.
For much of the post-World War II period, until the 2000s, strong GDP and employment growth in the advanced economies meant that almost all households experienced rising incomes, both before and after taxes and transfers.
Increases in government transfers and lower tax rates reduced the effect of stagnating or falling market incomes on disposable incomes.
And generous net transfers meant that disposable incomes increased for almost all households.
To be sure, the US also intervened after the crisis, implementing a fiscal stimulus package in 2009 that, along with other transfers, raised median disposable income growth by the equivalent of five percentage points.
European solutions to the problem could involve transfers of funds when local education benefits a continent-wide labor market, or assistance in addressing the problems that affect areas at risk of losing their working-age populations.
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the absence of conventional economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight limits on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.
As US President Barack Obama’s domestic opponents resist his signature health-care legislation, owing to the wealth transfers that it implies, Japanese bureaucrats are trying to recover the authority to administer tax revenue to support social-welfare programs.
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