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Its per capita income is more than €30,000 ($40,000) per year, and it has a strong welfare state and an educated society.
The party has simply stepped in where the Greek state – long plagued by inefficiency and corruption – has retreated, providing basic welfare and other services to desperate citizens, while engaging in unprecedented violence against people who are or look like immigrants.
In fact, when Germany embarked a decade ago on a reform program featuring major cuts to the welfare state and a more flexible labor market, it broke the rules of the eurozone’s Stability and Growth Pact.
Industry receives half, a share that business groups have fought fiercely to increase, and households receive the rest though income-tax cuts and higher welfare payments.
This research shows each extra dollar spent on these vaccines will generate $60 worth of human welfare.
This should contribute to the development of appropriate human rights-based programs and policies enhancing freedoms and welfare for individuals and their communities.
The welfare state was transformed into a system of endemic waste.
The criticisms of this attitude boil down to a simple question: “Who is better equipped than I am to make choices about my welfare?”
BERKELEY – The old idea of recasting the welfare state by instituting an unconditional universal basic income has lately been capturing imaginations across the political spectrum.
On the right, it is viewed as a means to demolish complex welfare bureaucracies while recognizing the need for some social transfer obligations in a way that doesn’t weaken incentives significantly.
While a basic income can replace some egregiously dysfunctional welfare spending, it cannot substitute for, say, public education and health care, preschool nutrition programs, or employment guarantees in public works.
But such schemes should not be dismissed in the developing world, where conditions are such that they could offer an affordable alternative to administratively unwieldy and ineffective welfare programs.
Meanwhile, increased fiscal expenditure on social welfare could help reduce high household savings rates, supporting the necessary shift to a more consumption-driven economy.
It also happens to be an important - often the most important - item of human welfare and development.
The argument for free trade is an argument for welfare, but welfare defined exclusively in terms of money.
The trouble is that the more you start to think of your welfare in terms of money, the more likely you are to regard spending time with your friends or making love as an “opportunity cost” – the loss of money you would have made by working instead – rather than a benefit.
A society’s welfare is not identical with the profitability of its businesses, or with the growth rate of GDP.
The inventor of New Labour would like to be remembered as the man who squared the circle of sustainable economic growth and a reformed welfare state, the man who reconciled wealth creation and social cohesion.
It was the New Deal, the welfare state, and controlled globalization (under the Bretton Woods regime) that eventually gave market-oriented societies a new lease on life and produced the post-war boom.
Budget room will be scarce for many other worthwhile programs, among them: aid to poor countries, where the US is scandalously stingy; paying dues in arrears to the UN; creating jobs for mothers who will, under the cruel welfare "reform" Clinton signed in 1996, be denied public assistance for themselves and their children.
Holland is that rare example of a booming welfare state (“overheating” was the word used to describe the Dutch economy by three central bankers in Frankfurt).
The Dutch solution best fits Europe’s present political realities: Keep welfare rules in place, but give people the chance to get around them.
Superficially, France looks as if it has become more of a welfare state, but the reality is that the French have mimicked the Dutch in increasing labor market flexibility.
Or to a president of Venezuela whose intolerance of the business class causes jubilation in the streets, but emigration by those whose initiative is crucial for the welfare of the people.
The massive development of spontaneous trade after the liberalization of the prices and trade made an important contribution to welfare, but many saw it as big waste.
While it has trimmed its welfare state, it has not abandoned it.
The more the PBC intervenes, the larger the national welfare losses that China may suffer in the future.
The Chinese government must, therefore, strike a balance between protecting China’s export sector and preserving its national welfare.
The dilemma that officials face is that the impact of a fall in exports as a result of RMB appreciation will be felt acutely and immediately, whereas the large welfare losses due to the evaporation of the value of China’s foreign-exchange reserves will be borne by society as a whole – but not immediately.
Their remittances contribute immensely to the economic welfare of their families, communities, and home countries’ economies.
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