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Yet he also wants to boost the economy with a €50 billion ($55 billion) stimulus package and extend the welfare state.
Cash aid has sometimes replaced food aid in humanitarian crisis situations, and there have been targeted social protection schemes in Zambia, as well as incipient welfare schemes for the elderly in India, South Africa, and Lesotho.
Partner countries must be ready to invest in their institutions and develop their own vision of how they want to organize their welfare systems.
There is growing recognition that GDP – which was not intended to measure economic welfare – conflates social costs and benefits, neglects many non-market costs and benefits, and ignores the distribution of income.
While GDP growth might correlate with improved welfare in developing economies, its continued use as a policy goal in “overdeveloped” economies is counterproductive – and even dangerous.
Beginning with Bismarck's social security system in 19 th century Germany, through the American New Deal of the 1930's, to the social-democratic policies of postwar Europe, many countries created a "mixed" welfare state in which governments control and temper market forces, providing an extensive "safety net" for individuals.
But despite its achievements, many people believe that the welfare state comes at too high a price in terms of dampening economic dynamism.
Even systems of taxation and social welfare are more sophisticated in using new tools of insurance, finance, and information technology.
The government’s proposed 2019 budget would be 9.7% larger than in 2018, with welfare programs receiving the largest share of funds (34%).
But in today's Europe, an successful electoral platform includes shutting out immigrants (especially poor or black ones), abandoning multiculturalism in favor of "cultural integration," limiting access to social welfare, halting or reversing the progress of European unification, and pouring police onto the streets.
Its program of slashing welfare benefits for immigrants is marketed as a "defense of the welfare system" against interlopers.
Interventions like rural electrification, the provision of drought-resistant seeds and agricultural technology, and the expansion of micro-insurance are vital not only to rural populations’ welfare, but also to catalyze a new “Green Revolution,” without which city dwellers will face severe food shortages.
Rather, they are the places where technology and public policy support citizens’ welfare and aspirations.
Even if the welfare of the victims is ignored, torture is not cost-free; it damages the perpetrators, corrodes democratic institutions, and corrupts the rule of law.
Each state would have the authority and the obligation to provide for the economic, cultural, religious, and welfare needs of its citizens living in the other state’s territory.
That does not mean simply that we are addicted to “bread and circuses,” from welfare programs in Europe (which we can barely afford) to the Super Bowl in the United States.
In the wake of Mittal’s takeover of Arcelor, governments must address this gap in the law, as no society can afford to permit the economic system to continue its march toward indifference to the welfare and security of workers.
Outsourcing keeps terrorists – and other foreigners who would get expensive welfare subsidies – at bay without sacrificing the benefits of globalization.
Theirs was a vote against the lack of progress and hope in Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbors, the open rift with US President Barack Obama, and the cost of social welfare for the ultra-Orthodox, who rarely hold productive employment.
And school attendance is essential for children’s welfare, because it gives them access to basic health-care services and protects them from the horrors of child labor and prostitution.
But the concrete policies needed to realize this aim are not, since reforming the welfare state and labor markets means more competition, which scares many citizens.
Hydrocarbon-producing countries used their profits to buy their citizens’ loyalty and establish what were effectively welfare states; and non-oil producers enjoyed the benefits of aid, capital inflows, and remittances sent back by their nationals working in resource-rich countries.
If we take the world as it really is, we quickly see that high finance performs two further tasks that advance our collective economic welfare.
Add to that a functioning welfare system, and it is clear why the inequality-focused outrage that has fueled voter revolts elsewhere is gaining little traction in Germany.
But intervention by modern democratic states goes beyond the boundaries of the post-1945 welfare state, which sought to protect individuals against risks linked to old age, family responsibilities, accidents, illness, and the labor market.
Thanks to the welfare state, organized sports, which first appeared among the leisured upper classes, are now practiced by everyone.
Because no society can ensure complete equality, "welfare democracy" feeds dissatisfaction and frustration - and hence demands for more welfare democracy, not less.
As a result, the welfare state becomes unavoidably particularizing, as it constantly adds and refines categories and groups entitled to formal recognition and resources.
So the birth and development of the welfare state reflects an inescapable fact: freedom and equality are both in tension and intimately linked, because both values are part and parcel of the democratic project.
For without a common political identity on which to base social solidarity, redistribution of wealth by the welfare state loses its legitimacy.
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