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It places strains on each country’s institutions (seen in the pressure on Europe’s welfare states), breeds resentment against foreigners (witness the recent success of anti-immigration parties), and renders financial crises originating from abroad both likelier and costlier (as the current situation makes all too clear).
But, as this example suggests, the impact of parental age on a child’s welfare will vary from one culture to another.
And the EU, many of whose members have the world’s largest and best-equipped welfare systems, appears to be overwhelmed by it – politically, morally, and administratively.
As a result, France suffers from growing inequality, high and still-rising unemployment, constant corporate restructurings entailing layoffs, threats to public services and social welfare programs, and a general feeling of insecurity.
Several years ago, following protests from animal welfare organizations, the European Union commissioned a report from its Scientific Veterinary Committee on these methods.
Measures to improve the welfare of laying hens, which are typically kept crammed into bare wire cages with no room to stretch their wings, are also being phased in.
In the past, when my European friends have asked me why the US lags so far behind Europe in matters of animal welfare, I have had no answer.
Then, in 2002, animal welfare advocates put a proposal to ban sow stalls on the ballot in Florida.
Americans seem to care just as much about animal welfare as Europeans do.
So, to explain the gap between Europe and the US on farm animal welfare, we should look to the political system.
In Europe, the concerns of voters about animal welfare have been effective in influencing members of national parliaments, as well as members of the European Parliament, resulting in national legislation and EU directives that respond to those concerns.
There is no federal legislation at all on the welfare of farm animals – and very little state legislation, either.
The animal welfare movement, despite its broad public support, has been unable to compete in the arena of political lobbying and campaign donations.
From the point of view of European welfare, it is the size of the trade barriers that matters, not which side is a net exporter or importer.
But as barriers become higher, the negative impact on welfare grows disproportionately.
But so does the legitimacy and adaptability of the established political system, the scope of welfare provision, electoral politics and political leadership, and the international context.
As for the impact on lives in Gaza, Hamas – like Yasir Arafat – has again shown itself to be more devoted to the idea of Palestine than to the welfare of Palestinians.
Will Europe be able to roll back its welfare states’ biggest excesses without economic distress and social unrest toppling governments and, in the peripheral countries, undermining already-tenuous agreements with creditors?
Joblessness is the main cause of poverty, and the best protection against it is earned income, for which even France’s generous welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.
For France as a whole, the long-term cost of withholding tough medicine will ultimately be much higher than the short-term pain of reforming the country’s fiscally unsustainable and spiritually impoverishing welfare state.
For example, the new welfare economics of capital controls views unstable capital flows as negative externalities on recipient countries, which implies that regulations on cross-border flows are the optimal tools to address market failures, improve market functioning, and enhance growth, not worsen it.
To this extent, developed countries’ bear a responsibility for cushioning the impact on their workers by providing adequate social welfare protection, together with relocation and re-training benefits.
Today, we do have what might be called a "left," although its main representatives, the postcommunists, follow Britain’s new Labour prime minister Tony Blair in believing more strongly in a market economy than in extending social welfare.
The right is both for and against Europe; for a market economy and for workers’ ownership; for a strong welfare state and lower taxes; for modernization of agriculture and the preservation of small family farms.
It narrows government budget deficits by increasing tax revenues and limiting welfare spending.
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued full pardons for Confederates – with the exception of their leaders and subject to conditions “he may deem expedient for the public welfare” – in order to help reunite the country after the Civil War.
Specifically, it advances the government's vision of a pro-growth agenda that enhances the ease of doing business in India, while targeting better delivery mechanisms for welfare schemes.
On the expenditure side, the budget is expansionary, scaling up investment spending dramatically, introducing new welfare programs, and increasing credit for various sectors.
A cornerstone of the existing international order is the recognition that maintaining peace and human welfare requires an understanding of and respect for the needs and interests of others – needs and interests that are no less legitimate than our own.
My research, which has included thousands of interviews with women from India to Burkina Faso, has centered on one question: How can the international community improve the welfare of the world’s poorest women?
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