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The primary protection against poverty is earned income – for which even France’s generous unemployment benefits and other welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.
Neo-conservatives, for their part, see the European malaise as a form of typical Old World decadence, a collective state of nihilism bred by welfare states and soft dependence on hard American power.
But on issues like jobs, hospitals, schools, and the welfare state, their approaches contrasted sharply.
In a year-long process, the group identified the tools, systems, and financing that would be needed to achieve global health convergence, and produced Global Health 2035 – an ambitious investment blueprint that would save millions of lives and bolster human welfare, productivity, and economic growth.
In the wake of the death of the utopian - and often bloody - certainties of the 19th and 20th centuries (Communism's collapse was but the latest spectacular example), and with fading belief in the liberal welfare state, traditional views about work, retirement, education, the Church, solidarity, and other social institutions are changing rapidly.
What better candidate for structural reform than a dismantling of the Swedish welfare state?
Finally, the tax reform that Congress recently approved will guarantee sound public finances and promote growth by increasing public investment in infrastructure, education, research and development, and welfare services (including universal pension and unemployment insurance).
Europe currently lacks military muscle because it made a decision a half-century ago to be protected by the US and devote the saved resources to building up its welfare state.
Cutting welfare spending – where the big money is – would be painful.
Even economic growth will not prevent a tradeoff between defense and welfare spending for Europeans.
In short, Europeans will not allow Bush’s Iraq war to become a war on their welfare state.
What makes the energy imposed as a tax substitution tax particularly attractive as a defense measure is that it leaves the welfare state intact while making Europe safer, greener, and richer.
Voters, even those concerned about immigration, based their choices on economic and welfare issues, which the media reported on with relative accuracy.
He is already working to eliminate graft, restrict the scope of administrative approvals, reduce the state-owned sector’s advantages, clarify property rights in land, and simplify welfare, tax, and financial regulations.
At the height of the crisis, Ireland’s government cut public-sector salaries and pensions, raised the retirement age (to 68 by 2028), slashed welfare benefits, and increased the value-added tax.
Perhaps what is most interesting about the current discussion is that much of the focus has been on the consequences of inequality beyond its adverse effect on the welfare of the poor.
M5S’s “citizen’s income” will not be sufficient to lift people out of poverty, and it could actually worsen their plight to the extent that it distracts attention from the fragmented and poorly targeted welfare system, not to mention the need for broader structural reforms.
Golden Rice offers the potential to make contributions to human health and welfare as monumental as the discovery and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine.
The government must reform social welfare and pensions.
In a recent speech in Dresden, she proposed three concrete and action-oriented proposals to the North that would address its humanitarian problems, build infrastructure for the common welfare and prosperity of the two Koreas, and promote integration of the Korean people.
Yet some of Europe’s best-performing countries, such as Sweden and Norway, have the strongest welfare states and labor-market protections.
The eurocrats, like labor laws or the welfare state, didn’t suddenly change in 1999, with the creation of the fixed exchange-rate system, or in 2008, with the beginning of the crisis.
Thus, he rejected the French Revolution and the modern welfare state as much as he opposed Muslim immigration.
The reason is essentially the same throughout Europe: slow economic growth implies few prospects for a better life, while the welfare state has failed to create jobs.
Given a slow economy, a failed welfare state, and uncontrolled immigration – challenges for which no mainstream parties on the right or the left have any coherent proposals – the appeal of the far right’s soft populism will continue to haunt France and Europe.
After the creation of the welfare state, government-funded pensions and medical assistance replaced this obligation, even if younger workers’ taxes financed such schemes.
According to some studies, intra-family transfer patterns are correlated to welfare regimes.
Generous welfare states, such as those in Scandinavia, minimize the risk of old age, enabling parents to transfer resources to their adult children more easily and frequently.
Third, Asian states must recast their central role as being to defend our collective welfare by protecting natural capital and the environment.
Moreover, a real technocracy would boast a robust civil service trained in bureaucratic management techniques that use data to measure and optimize welfare.
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