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Historically, protectionism was associated with economic theories such as mercantilism (that believed that it is beneficial to maintain a positive trade balance), and import substitution. During that time, Adam Smith famously warned against the ‘interested sophistry’ of industry, seeking to gain advantage at the cost of the consumers. Most modern economists agree that protectionism is harmful in that its costs outweigh the benefits, and that it impedes economic growth. Economics Nobel prize winner and trade theorist Paul Krugman once famously stated that, “If there were an Economist Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations ‘I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage’ and ‘I advocate Free Trade’.”
Recent examples of protectionism in first world countries are typically motivated by the desire to protect the livelihoods of individuals in politically important domestic industries.[citation needed] Whereas formerly mostly blue-collar jobs were being lost from developed countries to foreign competition, in recent years there has been a renewed discussion of protectionism due to offshore outsourcing and the loss of white-collar jobs. However, most economists agree that the benefits from free trade in the form of consumer surplus and increased efficiency outweigh the losses of jobs by at least a margin of 2 to 1, with some arguing the margin is as high as 100 to 1 in favor of free trade. Protectionism in the United States
Free trade and protectionism are regional issues. Free trade in America is the policy of economics developed by American slave holding states and protectionism is a northern, manufacturing issue. Although not as animating an issue as slavery, differences in trade between the two regions contributed to the Civil War and remain a point of national difference even today.
Historically, southern slave holding states, because of their low cost manual labor, had little perceived need for mechanization, and supported having the right to purchase manufactured goods from any nation. Thus they called themselves free traders.
Northern states, on the other hand, sought to develop a manufacturing capacity, and successfully raised tariffs to allow nascent Northern manufacturers to compete with their more efficient British competitors. Beginning with 1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures”, in which he advocated tariffs to help protect infant industries, including bounties (subsidies) derived in part from those tariffs, the United States was the leading nation opposed to “free trade” theory. Throughout the 19th century, leading U.S. statesmen, including Senator Henry Clay, continued Hamilton’s themes within the Whig Party under the name “American System.”
The opposed Southern Democratic Party contested several elections throughout the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s in part over the issue of the tariff and protection of industry. However, Southern Democrats were never as strong in the US House as the more populated North. The Northern Whigs sought and got higher protective tariffs, over the bitter resistance of the South. One Southern state precipitated what was called the nullification crisis over the issue of tariffs, arguing that states had the right to ignore federal laws. Mostly over the issue of abolition and other scandals, the Whigs would ultimately collapse, leaving a void which the fledgling Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, would fill. Lincoln, who called himself a “Henry Clay tariff Whig”, strongly opposed free trade. He implemented a 44 percent tariff during the Civil War in part to pay for the building of the Union-Pacific Railroad, the war effort, and to protect American industry.
This support for Northern industry was ultimately successful. By President Lincoln’s term, the northern manufacturing states had ten times the GDP of the South. Armed with this economic advantage, the North was easily able to defeat the South by starving the South of weapons through a near total blockade, while at the same time was able to supply its own army with everything from heavy artillery to repeating Henry rifles.
With the North winning the Civil War, Republican dominance was assured over the Democrats. Republicans continued to dominate American politics until around the early 20th century. President William McKinley stated the United States’ stance under the Republican Party as thus:
“Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature, the law of self-preservation, of self-development, of securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man. [It is said] that protection is immoral. Why, if protection builds up and elevates 63,000,000 [the U.S. population] of people, the influence of those 63,000,000 of people elevates the rest of the world. We cannot take a step in the pathway of progress without benefiting mankind everywhere. Well, they say, uy where you can buy the cheapest’. Of course, that applies to labor as to everything else. Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim: uy where you can pay the easiest.’ And that spot of earth is where labor wins its highest rewards.”
Southern Democrats gradually rebuilt their party, and allied themselves with Northern Progressives. They had many differences but both were staunchly opposed to the great corporate trusts that had built up, and Republican corruption was endemic. This marriage of convenience to face a common enemy reinvigorated the Democratic Party, which catapulted back into power. Northern Progressives sought free trade to undermine the power base of Republicans – Woodrow Wilson would admit as much in a speech to Congress. A brief resurgence by Republicans in the 1920s was disastrous for them. Woodrow Wilson’s ideological understudy[citation needed], Franklin Roosevelt, would essentially blame the Great Depression upon the protectionist policies exemplified by the previous Republican President, Herbert Hoover.[citation needed]
The Democratic Party would continue to advance free trade,[citation needed] to appeal to its southern wing, carefully balancing a growing voice among its labor side for restraint. Free trade were among the postwar goals of the Allies in World War II, and many rounds of discussions and treaties would gradually advance this cause. Having been stuck with the blame for the Great Depression, Republicans would gradually become zealots of free trade, a position they retain to this day.
In the 1960s, the Democratic Party lost its Southern base by passing, in concert with northern Republicans, numerous Civil Rights reforms. The Republican party leveraged its free trade zealotry, along with a tacit disapproval of civil rights reforms, to gain those Southern Votes. Thus the Republican Party traded regions with the Democratic Party. Ironically, having supported free trade so vocally in response to having been labeled as Herbert Hoover instigators of the Great Depression, in the election of 2008 Republicans found themselves condemned for not being protectionist. Protectionist policies
A variety of policies can be used to achieve protectionist goals. These include:
Tariffs: Typically, tariffs (or taxes) are imposed on imported goods. Tariff rates usually vary according to the type of goods imported. Import tariffs will increase the cost to importers, and increase the price of imported goods in the local markets, thus lowering the quantity of goods imported. Tariffs may also be imposed on exports, and in an economy with floating exchange rates, export tariffs have similar effects as import tariffs. However, since export tariffs are often perceived as ‘hurting’ local industries, while import tariffs are perceived as ‘helping’ local industries, export tariffs are seldom implemented.
Import quotas: To reduce the quantity and therefore increase the market price of imported goods. The economic effects of an import quota is similar to that of a tariff, except that the tax revenue gain from a tariff will instead be distributed to those who receive import licenses. Economists often suggest that import licenses be auctioned to the highest bidder, or that import quotas be replaced by an equivalent tariff.
Administrative Barriers: Countries are sometimes accused of using their various administrative rules (eg. regarding food safety, environmental standards, electrical safety, etc.) as a way to introduce barriers to imports.
Anti-dumping legislation Supporters of anti-dumping laws argue that they prevent “dumping” of cheaper foreign goods that would cause local firms to close down. However, in practice, anti-dumping laws are usually used to impose trade tariffs on foreign exporters.
Direct Subsidies: Government subsidies (in the form of lump-sum payments or cheap loans) are sometimes given to local firms that cannot compete well against foreign imports. These subsidies are purported to “protect” local jobs, and to help local firms adjust to the world markets.
Export Subsidies: Export subsidies are often used by governments to increase exports. Export subsidies are the opposite of export tariffs, exporters are paid a percentage of the value of their exports. Export subsidies increase the amount of trade, and in a country with floating exchange rates, have effects similar to import subsidies.
Exchange Rate manipulation: A government may intervene in the foreign exchange market to lower the value of its currency by selling its currency in the foreign exchange market. Doing so will raise the cost of imports and lower the cost of exports, leading to an improvement in its trade balance. However, such a policy is only effective in the short run, as it will most likely lead to inflation in the country, which will in turn raise the cost of exports, and reduce the relative price of imports. De facto protectionism
In the modern trade arena many other initiatives besides tariffs have been called protectionist. For example, some commentators, such as Jagdish Bhagwati, see developed countries efforts in imposing their own labor or environmental standards as protectionism. Also, the imposition of restrictive certification procedures on imports are seen in this light.
Further, others point out that free trade agreements often have protectionist provisions such as intellectual property, copyright, and patent restrictions that benefit large corporations. These provisions restrict trade in music, movies, drugs, software, and other manufactured items to high cost producers with quotas from low cost producers set to zero. Arguments for protectionism
Protectionists believe that there is a legitimate need for government restrictions on free trade in order to protect their country economy and its people standard of living. The “Comparative Advantage” argument has lost its legitimacy
Opponents of free trade often argue that the comparative advantage argument for free trade has lost its legitimacy in a globally integrated worldn which capital is free to move internationally. Herman Daly, a leading voice in the discipline of ecological economics, emphasizes that although Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage is one of the most elegant theories in economics, its application to the present day is illogical: “Free capital mobility totally undercuts Ricardo’s comparative advantage argument for free trade in goods, because that argument is explicitly and essentially premised on capital (and other factors) being immobile between nations. Under the new global economy, capital tends simply to flow to wherever costs are lowesthat is, to pursue absolute advantage.” Protectionists would point to the building of plants and shifting of production to Mexico by American companies such as GE, GM, and even Hershey Chocolate as proof of this argument. Domestic tax policies can favor foreign goods
Protectionist believe that allowing foreign goods to enter domestic markets without being subject to tariffs or other forms of taxation, leads to a situation were domestic goods are at a disadvantage, a kind of reverse protectionism. By ruling out revenue tariffs on foreign products, governments must rely solely on domestic taxation to provide its revenue, which falls disproportionately on domestic manufacturing. As Paul Craig Roberts notes: “[Foreign discrimination of US products] is reinforced by the US tax system, which imposes no appreciable tax burden on foreign goods and services sold in the US but imposes a heavy tax burden on US producers of goods and services regardless of whether they are sold within the US or exported to other countries.”
Protectionists argue that this reverse protectionism is most clearly seen and most detrimental to those countries (such as the US) that do not participate in the Value Added Tax (VAT) system. This is a system which generates revenues from taxation on the sale goods and services whether foreign or domestic. Protectionists argue that a country that does not participate is at a distinct disadvantage when trading with a country that does. That the final selling price of a product from a non-participating country sold in a country with a VAT tax must bear not only the tax burden of the country of origin, but also a portion of the tax burden of the country were it is being sold. Conversely, the selling price of a product made in a participating country and sold in a country that does not participate, bears no part of the tax burden of the country in which it is sold (as do the domestic products it is competing with). Moreover, the participating country rebates VAT taxes collected in the manufacture of a product if that product is sold in a non-participating country. This allows exporters of goods from participating countries to reduce the price of products sold in non-participating countries.
Protectionists believe that governments should address this inequity, most likely in the form of tariffs. Infant industry argument
Main article: Infant industry argument
Some proponents of protectionism claim that imposing tariffs that help protect newly founded infant industries allows those domestic industries to grow and become self-sufficient within the international economy once they reach a reasonable size. Free Trade undercuts domestic policies for social good
Protectionists argue that governments rightly enact policies into law to protect its citizens from the excesses of laissez-faire capitalism. Examples are:
Child Labor Laws
Environmental Protection Laws
Product Safety Laws
Anti-Trust Laws
Occupational Safety Laws
Equal Opportunity Laws
Intellectual Property Laws
Minimum Wage Laws
Protectionists argue that these laws place a burden on companies that put them at a disadvantage when they compete, both domestically and abroad, with goods and services produced by companies unfettered by such restrictions.
Protectionists argue that governments have a responsibility to protect domestic companies when putting them at a competitive disadvantage by enacting laws for social good. Otherwise, they believe that these laws end up destroying domestic companies and ultimately hurting the citizens these laws were designed to protect. Arguments against protectionism
Protectionism is frequently criticized as harming the people it is meant to help. Many mainstream economists instead support free trade. Economic theory, under the principle of comparative advantage, shows that the gains from free trade outweigh any losses as free trade creates more jobs than it destroys because it allows countries to specialize in the production of goods and services in which they have a comparative advantage. Protectionism results in deadweight loss; this loss to overall welfare gives no-one any benefit, unlike in a free market, where there is no such total loss. According to economist Stephen P. Magee, the benefits of free trade outweigh the losses by as much as 100 to 1.
Most economists, including Nobel prize winners Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman, believe that free trade helps workers in developing countries, even though they are not subject to the stringent health and labour standards of developed countries. This is because “the growth of manufacturing and of the myriad of other jobs that the new export sector creates has a ripple effect throughout the economy” that creates competition among producers, lifting wages and living conditions. Economists have suggested that those who support protectionism ostensibly to further the interests of third world workers are in fact being disingenuous, seeking only to protect jobs in developed countries. Additionally, workers in the third world only accept jobs if they are the best on offer, as all mutually consensual exchanges must be of benefit to both sides, else they wouldn’t be entered into freely. That they accept low-paying jobs from first world companies shows that their other employment prospects are worse.
Alan Greenspan, former chair of the American Federal Reserve, has criticized protectionist proposals as leading “to an atrophy of our competitive ability. … If the protectionist route is followed, newer, more efficient industries will have less scope to expand, and overall output and economic welfare will suffer.”
Protectionism has also been accused of being one of the major causes of war. Proponents of this theory point to the constant warfare in the 17th and 18th centuries among European countries whose governments were predominantly mercantilist and protectionist, the American Revolution, which came about primarily due to British tariffs and taxes, as well as the protective policies preceding both World War I and World War II. According to Frederic Bastiat, “When goods cannot cross borders, armies will.” Current world trends
Since the end of World War II, it has been the stated policy of most First World countries to eliminate protectionism through free trade policies enforced by international treaties and organizations such as the World Trade Organization. Certain policies of First World governments have been criticized as protectionist, however, such as the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union and proposed “Buy American” provisions in economic recovery packages in the United States.
The current round of trade talks by the World Trade Organization is the Doha Development Round and the last session of talks in Geneva, Switzerland led to an impass. The leaders’ statement in the G20 meeting in London in early 2009 included a promise to continue the Doha Round. Protectionism after the 2008 financial crisis
Heads of the G20 at their recent London summit pledged to abstain from imposing any trade protectionist measures. Although they were reiterating what they had already committed to, last November in Washington, 17 of these 20 countries were reported by the World Bank as having imposed trade restrictive measures since then. In its report, the World Bank says most of the world’s major economies are resorting to protectionist measures as the global economic slowdown begins to bite.
There is a growing fear that protectionism will slowly sneak in and grow in the wake of the crisis. Apart from direct trade measures, a number of countries are introducing sector-specific bailout packages targeted to support crisis-hit companies, such as for automobile firms. These could distort resource allocation, and prove disadvantageous for other sectors and competitors in other countries thereby effectively becoming trade barriers. Also, governments the world over are likely to run into very high fiscal deficits in the process that will be difficult to sustain. Remaining un-protectionist is necessary, yet not sufficient. It is vital to intensify the process of trade facilitation and removal of the persistent non-tariff border barriers to trade. Diverting resources to trade-creating investment is vital. The G20 commitment of $250 billion for trade finance is noteworthy in this context, as the decline in trade credit contributed significantly to the fall in trade flows. It is also clear that this needs to be done in a politically palatable manner. The governments will have to cleverly tread the thin line between protectionistic measures that help domestic economy while taking action to accelerate global trade. Discriminatory procurement actions such as the uy American clause included in stimulus packages are clearly not right since they run the risk of encouraging retaliation and severely constrain supply chains that use imported inputs. See also
American School (economics)
Henry C. Carey
Alexander Hamilton
Economic patriotism
Rent seeking
Lobbying
Free trade debate
Voluntary Export Restraint
Friedrich List
WTO
Washington Consensus References
^ a b Free to Choose, Milton Friedman
^ Bhagwati, Jagdish. “CEE:Protectionism”. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Library of Economics and Liberty. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Protectionism.html. Retrieved 2008-09-06. 
^ Mankiw, N. Gregory. “Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation to Join the Pigou Club” (PDF). http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/Smart Taxes.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-06. 
^ a b Krugman, Paul R. (1987). “Is Free Trade Passe?”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 1 (2): 131144. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1942985. 
^ Benefits of offshoring jobs exaggerated: Experts- Outsourcing-Indiatimes – Infotech
^ Lind, Michael. New America Foundation.
^ William McKinley speech, Oct. 4, 1892 in Boston, MA William McKinley Papers (Library of Congress)
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^ The Conservative Nanny State
^ Daly, Herman (2007). Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development, Selected Essays of Herman Daly. Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 
^ Paul Craig Roberts (July 26, 2005). “US Falling Behind Across the Board”. VDARE.com. http://www.vdare.com/roberts/050726_behind.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-08. 
^ Krugman, Paul (Jan. 24, 1997). The Accidental Theorist. Slate.
^ Magee, Stephen P. (1976). International Trade and Distortions In Factor Markets. New York: Marcel-Dekker. 
^ Krugman, Paul (Mar. 21, 1997). In Praise of Cheap Labor. Slate.
^ Krugman, Paul (Nov. 21, 1997). A Raspberry for Free Trade. Slate.
^ Sicilia, David B. & Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. (2000). The Greenspan Effect, p. 131. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-134919-7.
^ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/opinion/a-french-roadblock-to-free-trade.html
^ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3988551,00.html
^ Prakash, Shravani, Protect trade from protectionism, The Economic Times, 27th April, 2009 External links
The American Protectionist Society
Economic Crisis
Voluntary Export Restrictions on Automobiles
Protectionism and the Civil War
FoEI Citizens’ Guide To: What is trade?
American Economic Alert
Paul Craig Roberts’ critique of free trade
Pat Buchanan commentary on protectionism
Pat Buchanan view on how revenue tariffs to compensate for foreign countries’ VAT rebates on exports can better create a “level playing field”
Warren Buffett’s proposal for use of Import Certificates (IC’s) as an alternative to revenue tariffs
Phyllis Schlafly’s 1996 review of free trade and protectionism within the United States
Economy In Crisis
ITSSD Journal on Disguised Protectionism
Non-tariff Barriers to Trade, Wikipedia.
‘Enlightened Environmentalism or Disguised Protectionism: Assessing the Impact of EU Precaution-based Standards on Developing Countries, Lawrence A. Kogan, for the National Foreign Trade Council (April 2004); .
Exporting Europe’s Protectionism, Lawrence A. Kogan, The National Interest (September 2004).
Trade Protectionism: Ducking the Truth About Europe’s GMO Policy, New York Times Op-Ed (November 27, 2004).
Precautionary Preference: How Europe Employs Disguised Regulatory Protectionism to Weaken American Free Enterprise, Lawrence A. Kogan, International Journal of Economic Development (IJED), Vol. 7 No. 2-3 (2005); .
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“Easily in their bank loans, deposits, ‘money view’ substantial magnetic members.” Credit union loan officer Huang set up as division introduced more than eight months of operating conditions, said, “As of late 2009, the Credit Union Member development to 92 loans to 62 pen, more than 100 million loans. ”

As the only comprehensive reform of rural finance pilot counties, Tiandong county full range of degrees of financial institutions in recent years, Guangxi ranks first in county, bank outlets cover all townships in the first province to achieve the financial interbank payment “townships” in objectives, financial products and financial services in the country repeatedly set a precedent.

Figures provided Tiandong County, Tiandong County currently ICBC, Agricultural Bank of China, Construction Bank, Agricultural Development Bank, postal savings banks, rural cooperative banks, the North Bay village banks, rural credit union funds and other financial institutions and banks China Life Insurance and other nine non-bank financial institutions and networks, the total number of banking institutions to 43 outlets. 34 business outlets throughout the county have access to large micro-payment system, 80.95% of total outlets, each town had one or more financial institutions to network access to modern payment system.

Tiandong County, determination and efforts of financial reform, more directly reflected in the flexible and effective in getting loans, guarantees difficult to break. Mutual funds following the Hong Xiangnong

after the establishment of the village, December 29, 2009, Guangxi second run by the farmers themselves, self-management of rural finance union, “Bamboo Union rural funds,” Silin in Tiandong County the town was born. Experts said that a county has two rural finance union, opened the first of its kind in the country, adjusted to relax the China Banking Regulatory Commission show that banking institutions in rural areas, access to policy determination of the pilot, in resolving the contradiction between supply and demand aspects of rural finance to make substantial efforts. Mutual funds

Bamboo rural town of bamboo based industries Silin the basis of farmer cooperatives, village development model and the Hong Xiangnong Mutual fund is basically the same: to absorb the savings members of the community to donate funds to other banks and financial institutions into the capital as a source of funds, non-guaranteed, mortgage-free amount of up to farmers to become shareholders shareholding of less than 10 times the loan ratio by the end of shareholder dividends. Among them, the shareholding of 2.8 million yuan, North Bay Village Bank by Tiandong more than 150 million credit, financing more than 50 million. “” Base rate stood at 10% by the wholesale integration of capital, then the base rate of 10% -20% standard ‘retail’ lend to members. “Bamboo rural finance director of Old Mutual abundance of chromium in the interpretation of this” wholesale-type loans, “he said. Tiandong North Bay Village Bank Deputy Governor Su Caihong said, the maximum” wholesale “250 million in loans to rural Bamboo Mutual funds. Li Guoqiang

Jiangxi young farmers in search of venture projects in Yunnan, and Hainan was removed inspected more than one month, the final lease 80 acres in Tiandong carried out banana cultivation. Land lease contracts with a piece of paper as collateral, Li Guoqiang from the Agricultural Bank of easy loans Tiandong County, more than 100 million, “do not worry the growing costs.” This is Tiandong County Forest Right Mortgage Loan and the right to land contractual management quality mortgages bold attempt. To Forest mortgage, Tiandong far issued by the Agricultural Bank of wood processing loans 2.5 million yuan. Moreover, innovations introduced Tiandong County agriculture-related micro-loan insurance, PICC Tiandong support the company launched a key feature of Tiandong County crop insurance premiums by 90% of financial subsidies, farmers from the worry of 10% model to carry out. Li Guoqiang The resulting 70% of the micro-credit insurance and growing Insurance.

Tiandong County Agricultural Bank, the Agricultural Development Bank of combining the characteristics of Tiandong County industry, launching the “company + base + farmers” pilot loans to farmers the way UNPROFOR loans to farmers. North Bay Village Banks to UNPROFOR, the way mutual insurance professional for all kinds of economic cooperation organizations in rural lending.

Town in Tiandong County Xiang Zhou Zhongping Village, the Agricultural Bank and the North Bay Village Bank’s ATM ATM is located in the village house, with the villagers can benefit farmers in the ATM card overdraft of up to 30,000 yuan, and a credit, As with the loan-to-use, recycle. Zhongping Village, home of Mission branch secretary Li Yuegui and sisters, “three joint guarantee” security will not benefit farmers by the Agricultural Bank Card Revolving Loan 100,000 yuan, so that their annual slaughter satinwoods Pig 800’s Pig Field expanded to 950 long, and build a number of biogas digesters and other eco- Cultivation Equipment. Agricultural Bank of Zhongping Village, most of the villagers transfer telephone installed at home, “to use Feed Then I shall go directly to the feed owner account. Sell pig if the money to my account, there will be toll-free number for reminding me. Only our village, with farmers on the transfer phone are more than 3,000. “Li Yuegui ready to pig farming this year will be extended to 1500, convenient financing channel help her busy.

Tiandong financial innovation pilot test, attracted Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other financial institutions in major cities of the country sent to the Tiandong sightseeing, both said, “are a useful reference.”

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]]> http://governmentpaid.com/organization-of-the-guangxi-delegation-to-borrowing-fat-power-hard-to-break-through-youth/feed 0 Why to invest in Hamilton, New Zealand http://governmentpaid.com/why-to-invest-in-hamilton-new-zealand http://governmentpaid.com/why-to-invest-in-hamilton-new-zealand#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:33:38 +0000 admin http://governmentpaid.com/why-to-invest-in-hamilton-new-zealand Situated in the North Island, the south of the Auckland region; Hamilton city stands at the center of the Waikato region, one of New Zealand’s richest Agricultural regions with Agriculture dominating most of its economy but other industrial sectors such as manufacturing and retail are emerging thus providing a diverse investment environment in the city. With a vibrant, diverse and green heritage, the city is one of the fastest growing in New Zealand and is a global player in Agricultural production and innovation. It is the largest inland city, the fourth largest urban area and the seventh largest city in New Zealand and its Council projects that with its annual population growth rate of about 1.6%, the population will top 159,000 by 2016 from the 131,400 recorded in 2005.

 

Hamilton is New Zealand’s highest export region accounting for about 19% of the country’s total exports with key business clusters such as Agricultural Biotechnology, Light innovation, transport logistics, science research and education. It is regarded by exporters as NZ’s inland port and a major storage and distribution center. Under its Enterprise Training Program, coaching and business training workshops have been held for potential investors and entrepreneurs. Even though the funding for that project has been halted by the government’s Trade and Enterprise agency, it is developing a new scheme that will offer partial business training subsidies.

 

Favorable Investment policies of Hamilton as laid out by the city council have been crucial in attracting investments. For instance, it offers advance funding of new infrastructure in city growth areas with fair agreements between the council and private investment developers depending on the projects. Manufacturing and the retail industry have recently witnessed marked investments in recent years with the city’s Pacific Aerospace being the largest and the Max Clear Aviation that manufactures high quality micro light Aircraft. The British Flight training organization, CTC Aviation established their base in the region and trains over 100 pilots per annum.

 

Education and Research remain important to the city through the University of Waikato and the Wintec. The Ruakara research center accounts for most of New Zealand’s Agricultural innovations given Hamilton’s status as the largest dairy industry (Waikato) and its main source of revenue. However, with dairy prices surging and the restructuring of Fonterra, the largest dairy firm in the country, and the current drought facing New Zealand, farmers held a forum in Hamilton to discuss the next decade of dairying with Dairy NZ reporting that the industry is at crossroads and farmers should look beyond the next season.

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]]> http://governmentpaid.com/why-to-invest-in-hamilton-new-zealand/feed 0 Illegal immigrants would be barred from healthcare aid under Senate leaders proposal http://governmentpaid.com/illegal-immigrants-would-be-barred-from-healthcare-aid-under-senate-leaders-proposal http://governmentpaid.com/illegal-immigrants-would-be-barred-from-healthcare-aid-under-senate-leaders-proposal#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +0000 admin http://governmentpaid.com/illegal-immigrants-would-be-barred-from-healthcare-aid-under-senate-leaders-proposal In a bid to win support from fence-sitting moderate Democratic senators, the Senate leadership has included provisions in its healthcare proposal that would bar any aid to illegal immigrants and would restrict assistance to immigrants residing legally in the United States.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs the support of all 58 Democrats and both independent senators in a procedural showdown vote today on whether he can block a Republican filibuster that would kill the health bill.

The result: Moderate-to-conservative Democratic senators such as Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, along with independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, effectively have veto power over the bill.

Like the recently approved House version of healthcare reform, the Senate bill would deny federal subsidies to help undocumented immigrants buy insurance. But the Senate bill would also bar undocumented immigrants from participating in health insurance exchanges even if they pay full price with their own funds.

The Senate would also impose a five-year waiting period before legal immigrants who are not citizens could gain access to any federal health insurance subsidies.

The concessions to immigration critics have shaken Latino rights groups, who have strongly backed Democratic attempts to overhaul the American healthcare system.

“Diseases know no boundaries,” said Elena Rios, president of the National Hispanic Medical Association. “The best idea would be to have everyone have healthcare.”

Hispanics in the House — there are none in the Senate — are furious. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., calls the Senate provisions “mean-spirited” and “dehumanizing.”

Some medical providers in cities like Houston contend that taxpayers would be the ultimate victim of any plan that keeps immigrants away from primary doctors and instead funnels them to public hospitals’ emergency rooms.

“Those problems are not going to go away” unless immigrants obtain access to primary-care physicians rather than using emergency rooms as a first resort, said David Lopez, CEO of the Harris County Hospital District. “I think it needs to be addressed now.”

Texas has the highest number of uninsured immigrants in the U.S. Of the 6 million or so uninsured residents in Texas, about 1.5 million are not citizens, said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin.

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]]> http://governmentpaid.com/illegal-immigrants-would-be-barred-from-healthcare-aid-under-senate-leaders-proposal/feed 0 Family Trusts and Rest Home Fees http://governmentpaid.com/family-trusts-and-rest-home-fees http://governmentpaid.com/family-trusts-and-rest-home-fees#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:52:30 +0000 admin http://governmentpaid.com/family-trusts-and-rest-home-fees Bruce and Julie had worked all their lives to build up their assets. They’d paid their taxes and tried to contribute to society. Bruce frequently helped his neighbours out doing odd jobs for them and Julie worked as a volunteer for the Blind Institute. They’d based their life on a simple philosophy – look after family and friends and help our where you can.

During their lives they’d done pretty well for themselves considering where they’d started from, which was ground zero. They had a nice house and were feeling comfortable with their lot. They’d been blessed with two children and now they even had grandchildren which they loved dearly.

Setting up a family trust is something they never considered because they didn’t understand how it might remove risk

At the age of 60, tragedy struck. Julie had a heart attack and died. The family rallied around and helped Bruce as much as they could. Two years later the family suffered another blow – Bruce got diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

It was awful for everyone to watch as slowly Bruce forgot who they were. Eventually, the family had no choice but to put Bruce in a rest-home where he could get the care and support he needed 24 hours a day. Trouble was, rest home care was expensive – really expensive. $850 per week was what the rest home wanted and that didn’t include any extras such as taking Bruce out for day trips.

The family approached the Ministry of Social Development and requested a residential care subsidy be granted to Bruce. The Ministry told them that before Bruce was eligible for a subsidy, he had to use his own assets as they only granted subsidies to people who had less than $180,000 worth of assets.

This threshold of assets was a real problem. Bruce owned the house he had been living in and it was worth around $310,000. After much discussion, things were worked out. The subsidy would be granted the Ministry said. The downside to the solution was the subsidy would be treated like a loan. So when Bruce finally died, the house would be sold and the loan would have to be repaid back to the Ministry.

Bruce lived for another 6 years in the rest home. The total amount of his rest home care came to $265,200. By the time real estate agents fees were paid and the loan was paid back to the Ministry there wasn’t much left. – only around $35,000.

The sad part about this story is that Bruce and Julie would have wanted the house to have gone to their children. They’d worked hard to create a life and leave their children an inheritance and that had all been lost to the Government.

What could have been done to protect the children’s inheritances?

Well, taking some sound professional asset planning advice wouldn’t have gone astray. Putting the home into a Trust before Bruce needed care would have definitely have helped.

Anyone wanting to protect their assets and the inheritances they want to leave their children should take steps to implement an asset protection programme.

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