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In PFS contracts, a government raises private funds from investors and uses these funds to pay external organizations (often non-profits) to provide essential social services.
Beyond providing state and local governments with access to investable private capital, pay-for-success contracts encourage risk-free experiments in public policy.
Moreover, because pay-for-success contracts must be validated by metrics and independent evaluations, it is easy to tell which experiments have succeeded and which have failed.
Though pay-for-success contracts remain in their infancy and can involve complex and lengthy negotiations, they have the potential to transform how state and local governments fund, deliver, and evaluate social-service programs.
SIPPRA requires that contracts be awarded on a competitive basis, and that applicants supply detailed outcome targets, cost-benefit projections, and their own matching funds; but it does not specify where funds should be invested.
Non-deliverable forward contracts should be subject to close regulation and supervision in both source and destination countries.
These are, in a sense, pay-for-success projects, sometimes structured as social impact bonds –formal contracts that tie payments to actual results.
On the contrary, the best solution is probably a diversity of labor contracts.
Governments generally lack the needed technical capacity to design such projects, opening up possibilities of favoritism and corruption when major contracts are awarded.
Not only had Nasheed awarded China its first infrastructure contracts; just three months before his ouster, he had inaugurated the new Chinese embassy in the capital, Malé, on the same day that India’s then-prime minister, Manmohan Singh, arrived for a regional summit.
But the Bush administration's exclusion of creditor countries like France, Germany, and Russia from Iraqi reconstruction contracts undermines this hope.
But while governments dictated broad sectoral priorities, banks decided the firm-by-firm allocation and extended credit via loan contracts, which imposed financial discipline.
But without the rule of law, businesses lose confidence that contracts and private-property rights will be enforced or independently arbitrated, and the economy cannot sustain strong long-term growth.
For decades, Qaddafi personally reviewed every agreement worth more than $200 million and often chose which foreign firms would receive contracts.
Similarly, Luxembourg launched a program in September 2017 that will backstop newly created permanent employment contracts for long-term unemployed people of any age.
Lawyers write a lot of contracts, and courts spend a lot of time enforcing them, but these institutions cannot cover everything.
We design contracts around imperfect trustworthiness and construct elaborate institutions that take account of the hills and valleys of human honor.
In their experiments, subjects, acting as employers, were asked to choose among types of employment contracts and then observe the outcomes when other subjects, acting as employees, responded.
Regular full-time employees are almost impossible to sack under Dutch law, but employers can fire part-time workers and not renew temporary contracts when they expire.
They demanded tax cuts, and got them; they demanded a rollback of environmental protection, and got it; they demanded, and received, the right to attack unions; and they demanded lucrative government contracts, even for paramilitary operations, and got those, too.
Moreover, futures contracts give only limited medium-term guidance because they either don’t extend out far enough, or the markets are not deep enough.
Silicon Valley’s genesis and growth, it should be recalled, was propelled by government contracts and procurement.
Successful examples of progressive federalism can be seen in a wide variety of areas, including health care, prison reform, higher education and job training, entrepreneurship, worker protection and benefits in the “gig economy”, and pay-for-success government contracts.
In such economies, contracts tend to be honored voluntarily, not through coercive enforcement.
The champagne that Enron’s Jeff Skilling drank when the US Securities and Exchange Commission allowed him to mark long-term energy contracts to market was paid for by the company’s shareholders and creditors, but they would not know that until ten years later.
In the early 1990’s, desperately short of hard currency, Nigeria negotiated contracts permitting the oil companies to develop new fields and recoup their investment before sharing profits.
These high-quality products are purchased on middle- and long-term contracts, mainly by long-time customers.
There are very few fixed-term contracts or part-time contracts in Arcelor.
In order to stimulate productive bank credit – and boost the effectiveness of fiscal policy – governments should stop issuing bonds, and instead borrow from banks through loan contracts, often available at lower rates than bond yields.
The basic Marxist prerequisites that were eliminated, or meant to be eliminated, were freedom, property, the right to negotiate contracts, and to form associations under the law.
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