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The government could, for example, double welfare payments to households whose male heads stay home, threaten to revoke land reform rights after years of absence in rural communities, and establish choke points on highways at the Tehuantepec Isthmus.
So far, Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, has embraced a narrower version that would target mainly high-speed traders, who account for a large percentage of all stock transactions, and whose contribution to social welfare is open to question.
By contrast, in the case of debt owed to foreigners, higher interest rates lead to a welfare loss for the country as a whole, because the government must transfer resources abroad, which usually requires a combination of exchange-rate depreciation and a reduction in domestic expenditure.
Indeed, the so-called welfare state continued to eat into the wealth and welfare of our children.
In France’s case, the loss of competitiveness and resulting sharp decline in export performance has been aggravated by relying on crushing taxation of labor to finance generous welfare programs and top-drawer public services (a practice exacerbated by stifling labor-market regulation).
Tocqueville noted that “Americans are fond of explaining…[how] regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the general welfare.”
Some people still think of wage subsidies as a welfare hand-out.
In time, though, it came to represent a fundamental pillar of the modern welfare state, alongside education and public provision for old age.
Fortunately, many countries in this part of the world have recognized that regional welfare must be addressed as a regional challenge.
Some voters are beginning to think that their cherished European welfare state may be to blame.
Of course, most European countries need to rethink the foundations of their welfare state.
Yet, welfare state reform is not a priority of right-wing populists.
The goals upon which the EU was founded include not only peace in Europe, but also the promotion of the welfare and prosperity of all of Europe’s citizens.
These programs are largely benefits for middle-class seniors and not welfare programs targeted at the relatively poor.
Rapid productivity growth is-in the long run-good news for America: a higher-productivity economy is better at enhancing human welfare.
The real challenge in Europe is continued stagnation and rising public-sector fiscal pressures in bloated welfare states with rapidly aging populations.
The core challenge is fiscal;Europe cannot escape the need to scale back its sclerotic welfare states.
The aim of welfare capitalism was explicitly to provide people an income – typically through pooled compulsory insurance – during enforced interruptions of work.
In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher unwittingly extended the scope of welfare further, as they dismantled institutions and legislation designed to protect wages and jobs.
At the same time, conservative governments, alarmed at the growing cost of social security, started to cut back on welfare entitlements.
In this newly precarious environment of work and welfare, UBI is seen as guaranteeing the basic income previously promised by work and welfare, but no longer reliably secured by either.
Welfare-to-work programs in Michigan and Wisconsin served as the model for federal welfare reform under President Bill Clinton, and Obamacare is based on Massachusetts’ health-care system, introduced under Republican Governor Mitt Romney.
On the surface it seems that Europe's steady integration proceeded in parallel with the development of the welfare state.
Some, indeed, suggest that the EU often acts to erode the welfare state.
In both countries, majorities voted against adopting the euro because they feared that national welfare norms would become curtailed.
Given strong expectations of RMB appreciation, internationalization will inevitably lead to a serious currency mismatch, with possibly detrimental consequences for China’s welfare.
The profit-taking by speculators at the end of the game will lead to huge welfare losses to the recipient country, in this case China.
A conservative estimate puts the welfare cost of intimate partner violence alone at $4.4 trillion, or 5.2% of global GDP.
The welfare cost is $3.6 trillion, or 4.2% of global GDP.
Only when we achieve a culture of compliance with humanitarian norms will we be able to establish the framework for securing a vibrant civil society, negotiation instead of conflict, and continuing human welfare.
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