So why don’t countries handle refugee externalities via trade?
ie. countries can pay to take fewer refugees, or get paid to take more.
Right, but this is a strictly punitive measure, with no reward for countries who take extra refugees, giving no benefit for countries to try to optimise the efficiency of refugee processing.
tooth-and-nails said: Who would pay who? The refugees have nothing and its easier for the countries taking them to simply not instead of paying not to.
Within the EU this would be easy to arrange with an overall fund that applies to all member countries.
Outside the EU is more difficult, but an arrangement could be made between all the countries which have signed up to UN treaties regarding refugees.
tooth-and-nails said: Or they just not sign the treaties, keep their money AND not take refugees. To some thats a win/win/win scenario
Well, that’s how sovereignty works.
This sounds like something I would have invented.
Of course, the EU/UN lacking credible enforcement mechanisms is kind of a problem, but this could be easily bundled into free trade agreements instead; agree to join the refugee reception system (I’d make it so that every refugee is worth a certain sum of money, and they can then choose to go to any country which will accept them, and that country will then receive the money; this would incentivize better treatment of refugees as they become customers instead of product and it would naturally push the profit states can make from them downwards and optimize efficiency) and get rid of trade barriers and tariffs (and vice versa: refuse to pull your weight, and find your industries scorned).
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tooth-and-nails said: Or they just not sign the treaties, keep their money AND not take refugees. To some thats a win/win/win scenario- tooth-and-nails said: Who would pay who? The refugees have nothing and its easier for the countries taking them to simply not instead of paying not to.
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