Redistribution or Inclusion?

Does redistribution hamper growth?

For these groups, globalization amounted to redistribution.

Of course, monetary policy also has redistributive effects. Think about the different effects of interest rates on debtors versus creditors.

Second, eliminate the redistribution implicit in the system.

Given productivity constraints, redistribution is only palliative, not curative.

The redistribution implicit in many pension systems is often far from clean.'' Many systems entail politically motivated privileges for powerful lobbies.

Before the crisis hit, however, redistribution of wealth (and the tax and social security payments that make it possible) was considered the biggest obstacle to economic efficiency.

Global income redistribution by the rich countries should be viewed as a matter not of charity, but of enlightened self interest.

Financial capital can cross borders far more easily, and physical capital can relocate almost as quickly.

Social redistribution can be effected through fiscal measures rather than by direct intervention in the labor market. That s how it was done in the early days of the welfare state.

Social redistribution can be effected through fiscal measures rather than by direct intervention in the labor market.

Because capitalism redistributes aggressively, it is vital that there be trust, transparency and accountability.

But the funding for expanding these efforts will rest largely on provincial officials, who will be reluctant to compel local cadres to disrupt production and lay off even more workers.

Shifts in the distribution of income away from labor and toward capital, which have boosted corporate profits as a share of production.

Any redistribution, indeed, should be transparent, and take place via taxation and non pension related transfers.

Of course, it is easy to understand why this does not happen when redistribution is transparent, those who pay for it can complain.

Taking the massive over allocation of carbon emission permits out of the ETS will be vital.

Redistributing some of the profits from high energy prices enabled the regime to improve living standards and make itself popular with ordinary Russians.

China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

But a simple shift of responsibility to the advanced countries by exempting developing countries from the mitigation process will not work.

Their increasing strength is a reflection of robust economic growth, which promotes production for the market rather than sheer redistribution of resources, implying a new sort of politics.

This redistribution is purely routine in any federation, beginning with the United States, and the public pays little or no attention to it.

Even with Social Security s mildly redistributive effect, poverty and inequality in America are increasing.

But, while this has been repeatedly documented in many cases, the inference that redistribution is equivalent to a shock absorber is wrong.

You can complain that redistribution and industrial policy were economically inefficient, but not that they were unpopular.

Recent accounts from various progressive countries have shown that, although the redistribution of income has improved the quality of life for particular sectors within a population, it's not enough.

Indeed, given record high public debt levels in many countries, few governments have substantial scope to address inequality through further income redistribution.

On paper, wealth redistribution through high taxes and state transfers, reflecting Republican ideals of equality and social cohesion ( fraternité ), has brought good results.

Addressing inequality requires greater redistribution through national tax systems, together with enhanced programs for adult education, presumably making heavy use of new technologies.

Morales s social and cultural policies have been geared toward not only recognition of the rights of Bolivia s indigenous majority, but also bringing about a redistribution of power among racial groups.

Yet another factor militating against intervention is that the distribution of power resulting from the Arab Spring is leaving the US with limited influence and little intelligence.

When redistribution takes place via the pension system, it is paid for by unborn generations, who have no voice in the next election.

Instead, the aim in politics is to maintain the status quo periodic redistributions of position, property, and income all vital to democracy are eliminated.

Instead, the money could be returned to donor country citizens through tax deductions or income transfers, and they could decide how to help those in need.

This reallocation can damage long term economic development if those sectors nurture learning by doing and fuel broader productivity gains.

Moreover, the country s strategic situation is deteriorating with each passing year, because the global redistribution of power and influence from the West to the East can only weaken Israel s position.

As citizens start relying on redistribution, productive work is discouraged, and real wealth creation suffers.

In Ireland and Spain, transferring the banking system s huge losses to the government s balance sheet on top of already escalating public debt will eventually lead to sovereign insolvency.

A static electric charge is created whenever two surfaces contact and separate, and at least one of the surfaces has a high resistance to electrical current (and is therefore an electrical insulator).

If this is financed by cutbacks elsewhere in the budget, the main consequence will be only a re distribution of government spending, which is not necessarily inflationary.

In its early years the European Community was mainly concerned with peace, stability and democracy. But institutionalized solidarity has become increasingly important in European consolidation and intra European redistribution played a key role in the modernization of Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Greece.

Here is where government must intervene using its traditional tools, taxation and redistribution, as well as complementary policies such as social safety nets and adjustment assistance.

But defense independence vis à vis US implies a vast re allocation of resources from social welfare programs to the military, which so far has not interested the Europeans.

For much of the post 1945 period, these divisions disappeared as right and left fought battles for redistribution within national economies.