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Lebanon’s Western colonizer, France, actually managed to engage each religious community in an agreement for stable cohabitation – a scheme that inspired similar efforts in Algeria and in Iran under the Shah.
The rest pass through some type of early retirement scheme.
And it calls for not only common financial regulation, but also for eurozone-wide supervision of financial institutions, including common deposit insurance and a shared bank-resolution scheme.
While well intentioned, the new budget’s lavish loan forgiveness scheme will not help those farmers who most need relief: 80% of India’s farmers have no access to formal credit, and it is bank loans that are to be forgiven.
This is small change in the grand scheme of global finance; but, given that many of these borrowers were in distress or default just a decade ago, and needed debt forgiveness, theirs is an especially impressive turnaround.
As if this weren’t bad enough, the Commission is preparing an emission-trading scheme for EU airlines, with 2004 as the base year for setting quotas.
Nonetheless, by launching its OMT scheme, the ECB has committed German (and other northern European) taxpayers, without their parliaments’ approval, to a potential obligation to bail out – well, whom, exactly?
So, if the OMT scheme is not feasible under current treaty provisions, these provisions – which, after all, are of human, not divine, origin – must be amended.
The expert committee supports EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s plan to channel some €300 billion of private-sector money toward infrastructure, and proposes that if the scheme is successful, it should be transformed into a permanent European investment mechanism.
Karl Popper modified this scheme in his seminal book The Open Society and Its Enemies , published in 1944.
In fact, putting up a wind turbine cuts no extra CO2, because total emissions are already capped under the EU-wide carbon-trading scheme.
They were asked to admire the top of the income pyramid, only to find that they were looking at a pyramid scheme.
The EU's Deposit-Guarantee EndgameTILBURG – While existing European Union institutions were always unlikely to implement a common deposit-guarantee system (DGS) on their own, the formation of a European banking union will naturally lead to such a scheme.
Oil prices are also notoriously volatile, so the tax scheme must ensure that the government and the oil companies share the costs and benefits of price fluctuations.
Moreover, social protection must be extended to migrant workers, whose participation rate in basic medical insurance in 2009 was 13.1%, while 9.8% were covered by the state pension scheme and just 3.7% had unemployment insurance.
The EU’s refugee relocation scheme has proved to be particularly divisive.
Others consider a Greek exit to be just the start of the inevitable unraveling of a scheme that does not serve the purpose for which it was created.
Third, it highlights three correlated goals: easing external pressure for domestic policy changes, building social inclusiveness through a basic social-security scheme, and reducing inefficiency, inequality, and corruption through major rural land reform.
This scheme alone is almost revolutionary, because it will allow foreign actors to help shape the Chinese state’s relationship with the market.
In it, we considered whether the Hungarian government’s scheme to focus on long-term unemployment is working efficiently, and we raised a host of technical problems for the doctoral candidate to address.
The EU’s pioneering carbon-trading scheme is also an important step forward, though emission allowances will have to be cut and the cost of emitting increased if the system is to be effective.
But, as European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet likes to point out, market participants are good at thinking backwards: if they can see where a Ponzi-type scheme ends, everything unravels.
When, a little over a year ago, 42 elementary school children and teachers in impoverished Jiangxi (south central China) were killed in an explosion, China's domestic newspapers and internet sites reported the explosion as the result of an appalling child-labor scheme: nine-year-old children had been forced to install detonators in firecrackers so that teachers could sell fireworks to supplement their salaries.
Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh.
On the contrary, they are now the government’s partners in a joint venture to manage this dishonest scheme.
After the failure of its imperialist Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity scheme of the 1930’s (which had a soft-power component of anti-European propaganda) and its defeat in World War II, Japan turned to a strategy that minimized military power and relied on strategic alliance with the US.
Another innovative solution, which may work in some areas, is Switzerland’s “G permit” scheme, available to foreigners who live in a border zone in their home country and work in a border zone in Switzerland.
Under this scheme, job-security provisions, mainly in the form of mandated severance payments, should increase steadily as workers acquire seniority.
Unsurprisingly, White’s scheme, founded on the United States’ post-war trade surplus, which it deployed to dollarize Europe and Japan in exchange for their acquiescence to full monetary-policy discretion for the US, prevailed.
That scheme is both absurd and dangerous.
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