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The effects of the social welfare system are especially striking in Eastern Germany, where benefits are at Western German levels, despite lagging far behind in economic development.
Sinn estimates that an East German family on welfare can collect four times the average income of a family in Poland and six times the income of a family in Hungary.
Sinn's proposals--adjustments in tax rates and welfare benefits--are technical and would have no immediate or dramatic effect on people's behavior.
Some security strategists and just war theorists argue that there may be nothing morally objectionable about deterrence in cases where the lives and welfare of a civilian population are not directly affected.
In fact, whereas most schools of economic thought maintain that one of government’s key responsibilities is to smooth the cycle, “real” business-cycle theory argues that reducing volatility reduces welfare!
Half of all welfare gains from 1960 to 2000 come from us living longer, healthier lives.
But the relative docility of rank-and-file workers on trade issues must ultimately be attributed to something else altogether: the safety nets erected by the welfare state.
The welfare state is the flip side of the open economy.
Italy and Germany are headed toward a ratio of one retiree per worker; without more rapid GDP growth, new immigration policies, higher retirement ages, and efforts to stem the increase in welfare spending, taxes will inexorably rise from already damaging levels.
True, across Europe, even in corporate boardrooms, there remains an unwillingness to go to the US extreme of "perform or perish" Politicians of all stripes are committed to the cradle to grave welfare state, no mater its expense and debilitating effects on the economy.
Lafontaine's agenda is a move backwards, as if the Continent's tentative moves on the road to a competitive market economy, beyond the welfare state, have reached a cul de sac for Europe.
What makes the debate so passionate in 2005 is a new fear that did not exist in the 1980’s: that the new members have a different social model, in which workers’ rights and the welfare state will be eroded.
It is not so much the Polish plumber as it is the Slovak 19% flat tax that is the challenge to the older West European social model and welfare state.
Unfortunately, as those aspirations are addressed, the economy has entered a steep decline, jeopardizing one of the revolution’s main goals, namely improvement in Egyptians’ living standards and welfare.
And, in the days before the welfare state, the rich were also expected to be philanthropists.
If this is more than lip service, and if she really carries out a serious reform of the German welfare state’s incentive structure, the result could be higher employment and structural economic growth.
The one billion Indians who have signed up for an Aadhaar, their electronic identity card, now enjoy direct access to welfare benefits without bureaucratic barriers.
Migrants are believed to impose a fiscal burden on destination countries’ welfare systems or to take their citizens’ jobs.
If the worker later became unemployed, the bond would be released to the US to cover welfare benefits.
But one should not confuse corporate welfare with a Keynesian stimulus.
But there are deep rifts between Party reformists and hardliners, exposed by the fall of Bo Xilai, the one-time Politburo contender who had been commended by leftists for fighting corruption and organized crime, launching egalitarian welfare programs, and initiating a campaign to sing “red” (revolutionary) songs in Chongqing.
Those who had preached fiscal restraint when it came to small welfare programs for the poor now clamored for the world’s largest welfare program.
Imagine, in particular, that all girls are educated, with all the profound benefits that this would yield in the areas of population growth, health and welfare, poverty alleviation, human rights, and politics.
A proposed consolidation of rural and urban plans for pensions and critical health care is particularly important in this regard, as is the authorities’ commitment to allowing workers to transfer their hukou (residency permits) – and the associated social welfare benefits – wherever they move.
But this urban-based, export-led growth model also created more challenges than it can now handle: property bubbles, traffic jams, pollution, unsustainable local government debt, land-related corruption, and social unrest related to unequal access to social welfare.
But, generally, wellbeing has been improving since at least the mid-eighteenth century, with the Industrial Revolution bringing a sharp acceleration in welfare gains.
If consumption can be successfully and sustainably boosted, I believe that China’s development will enter a new era, one in which economic growth continues at a rapid pace, generates higher employment, increases social welfare, places less demand on natural resources, and, ultimately, is of a much higher quality thereby underpinning more balanced global growth.
Costa Rica has joined a small group of countries in the so-called Wellbeing Alliance, which is implementing ideas, highlighted by the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, for constructing better welfare metrics.
They are based on building trust and cooperation, and on the belief that focusing on the welfare of their members not only enhances wellbeing, but also increases productivity.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pointed out, though Europe is home to just 7% of the world’s population and produces 25% of the world’s wealth, it accounts for 50% of global welfare payments.
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