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In some cases, banks have no choice but to lend to failing SOEs; their provincial government may demand that they provide large low-cost loans to a struggling and unproductive firm, particularly if it contributes significantly to local fiscal revenue and employment.
The Fund urges that savings be found in unproductive spending - meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well-to-do, and inefficient administrative practices.
This might boost growth in the short term, but unproductive investments can also threaten macroeconomic stability in the longer term.
Given the system of upward accountability, de-emphasizing GDP growth in assessing the performance of local officials would help reduce these officials’ incentive to abuse decentralized powers and make unproductive investments.
In turn, the stick is needed to ensure that these incentives do not lock in unproductive and wasteful investments.
My own efforts to advance the cause of UN reform when I was Australia’s foreign minister were about as quixotic and unproductive as anything I have ever tried to do.
This is not the time for rash decisions or unproductive recrimination.
Coping with the emerging social and economic burdens associated with poor health – not least those stemming from aging populations in many countries – requires a new approach to replace the unbalanced, unproductive model that currently prevails.
But high-return public investments that more than pay for themselves can actually improve the well-being of future generations, and it would be doubly foolish to burden them with debts from unproductive spending and then cut back on productive investments.
There is a simple Keynesian recipe: First, shift spending away from unproductive uses – such as wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or unconditional bank bailouts that do not revive lending – toward high-return investments.
It maintains lethargic, wasteful, unproductive, and well-connected firms at the expense of dynamic newcomers and outsiders, and favors declared goals such as industrialization, economic development, and national greatness over individuals’ economic freedom and responsibility.
If older people are unproductive, it is because society disables them through its attitudes, laws, and institutions.
In order to cope with these demographic shifts, the vicious cycle of making older people unproductive by labeling them so must be broken.
Unproductive measures, such as public-sector wage increases, will have the immediate effect of crowding out further the private sector.
As rapidly as the large, modern firms improved, through investments in technology and skills, the economy was dragged down by its unproductive small firms.
For China, the AIIB and Silk Road projects offer alternatives to unproductive domestic investment.
The result is that Feldstein’s contribution to solving our economic difficulties is, at best, unproductive.
Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.
Increasing military spending will be largely unproductive unless we do it “Europeanly.”
What Syria MeansNEW DELHI – Syria’s agony has generated a variety of unproductive responses: verbal condemnation of the excesses of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime; disagreements about the wisdom of armed intervention; and all-around confusion about the possibility of finding a viable long-term solution.
Development in ReverseCAMBRIDGE – One does not have to spend much time in developing countries to observe how their economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third.
But open-ended incentives have their own costs: they can raise consumer prices and bottle up resources in unproductive activities.
Banks responded with ingenious ways of repackaging and selling that debt, but the fundamental problem lay in the channeling of financial flows in an unproductive direction, owing to public pressure.
Opponents of estate taxes offer three reasons why they could dampen economic growth: entrepreneurs will be reluctant to expand their companies if they cannot leave their wealth to their children; small firms will risk collapse when their owners die if their heirs cannot pay the taxes; and companies will flee to lower-tax jurisdictions or engage in costly and unproductive tax avoidance.
But fiscal policies often targeted unproductive projects, such as rural infrastructure construction, and weaknesses in the banking system dampened the effectiveness of monetary stimulus.
Australia’s new foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has talked, as foreign ministers often do, of the need to avoid unproductive “megaphone diplomacy” and to “engage, not enrage” her counterparts.
There is also a disturbing implication in the Porter-Rivkin survey that workers themselves, along with America’s schools, are to blame for wage stagnation: If only workers were not so poor in math and science, so ill-equipped for the modern world, and so unproductive, they would earn higher incomes.
Instead, the US has assumed various unproductive roles, becoming the world’s money launderer, political-risk insurer, and money-holder of last resort.
The search is on to discover and control for characteristics of the human mind that could produce distorting, unproductive, or inefficient results.
And the far left had its own albatross: “really existing socialism” in the Soviet bloc was murderous and unproductive.
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