since the early 1990s. Higher government spending, taxes that did not keep pace with expenditures, and severe recession led …, have not restored Colombia to fiscal balance. A Colombian government commission charged with researching more long-term tax …

Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A … welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the … state that native-born voters would support less-generous benefits or restricted immigration, or both. And yet a welfare …

country's productive capabilities is often attainable only at the expense of another country's general welfare. The authors …

In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the … effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain …

including empirical studies of the welfare effects of quality - upgrading voluntary export restrictions and import quotas …

, countries will have more resources to concentrate on structural concerns. Welfare and Employment in a United Europe takes a …

approach replaces ordinal measures of individual welfare that cannot be compared among individuals with cardinal measures that … can. These are combined into an indicator of social welfare that reflects principles of horizontal and vertical equity …

In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many OECD countries there have been … calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back. Critics argue that the size of transfer programs is responsible … to roll back the welfare state could have unintended negative side effects, based as they are on an oversimplified view …