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That compromise (which also led to the US capital’s relocation to the District of Columbia, on the border of Virginia and Maryland) may serve as a precedent for limiting Germany’s liabilities if Eurobonds, or some other debt-mutualization scheme, are introduced.
Nor did the Hamiltonian scheme of federal finance guarantee a peaceful commonwealth.
Although grants are a nice source of funding for demonstration projects and research, only a for-profit approach that attracts broader investment will ensure that this scheme catches on.
Given the volume of jet fuel involved, key players, including buyers, sellers, and US officials, obviously knew or should have known about the scheme.
So far, Norway has avoided the worst pitfalls of the Dutch disease by using its massive oil revenues to establish a national savings scheme, the Petroleum Fund, which is permitted to invest only in foreign assets.
Mexico has chosen a targeted insurance scheme for households that are not covered by social security scheme and are too poor to afford private insurance.
Instead of a specific insurance scheme, Colombia created conditions for a new class of insurers to compete for clients and a new funding mechanism to finance them.
Though political resistance and financial limitations have slowed expansion, this is arguably the most far-reaching universal coverage scheme, because it creates competition among all kinds of insurers and health care providers.
The Mexican scheme enrolled 1.7 million families by its second year, while the Colombian scheme signed up 13 million people within its first decade.
The Colombian insurance scheme costs around $164 for each person covered, or $83 for fully subsidized coverage with a less generous benefit package.
Although bipartisan support for an emissions-trading scheme briefly appeared to be within reach, the deal fell apart, and the new opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has made a “pledge in blood” to repeal the legislation if he comes to power.
So what does this hotly contested scheme comprise?
Upon the shift in 2015 to a permit-trading scheme, a price ceiling will be set at A$20 above market price.
Australia’s experience has also shown some of the challenges that accompany such a scheme – in particular, the distribution of costs and benefits.
The income-tax cuts address the most widespread concern about the scheme: that electricity will become more expensive.
And, although most businesses expect a long-term carbon price, the lack of bipartisan support for this scheme leaves many dubious about whether it will survive the next election.
If not, Australia’s carbon-tax scheme – one of the world’s best-designed examples – will be regrettably short-lived.
Unfortunately, such a scheme exceeds the imagination and political will of the IMF's shareholders.
The SDR donation scheme would activate resources that are currently idle, benefiting donors and recipients.
This division of labor between the System-I and System-II mechanisms would work well were it not for the fact that our lazy and cheap decision-making mode tends to take over in situations that should command our fullest attention: choosing a pension plan or a health care scheme, for example.
What governments should not do is fund a basic-income scheme with the money from other key social-welfare programs.
Such a scheme would be consistent with the growing attention in India nowadays to addressing root causes, rather than just dealing (ineffectively) with bad outcomes.
There are proposals on the table for such a scheme, though any that is adopted would have to incorporate some limited joint guarantee by member states.
The scheme was dangerous from the viewpoint of financial markets, but extremely effective for tackling political hurdles.
The European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” scheme provides an important backstop for debt sustainability.
The more the scheme was exposed as unsustainable, the more doggedly officials clung to it – and the more optimistic their narratives.
The list of policy mistakes is almost endless: interest-rate hikes by the European Central Bank in July 2008 and again in April 2011; imposing the harshest austerity on the economies facing the worst slump; authoritative treatises advocating beggar-thy-neighbor competitive internal devaluations; and a banking union that lacks an appropriate deposit-insurance scheme.
There is one more feature of the “one-country, two systems” scheme that has doomed it: China’s deliberate decision to rule Hong Kong through crony capitalists.
There are doubts about the lack of a unified deposit-protection scheme, about the availability of funds to resolve a failing institution, and about whether the ECB’s approach will be rigorous enough to identify the lame ducks, force them to recapitalize, and thus rebuild confidence.
Beyond this, a UBI scheme can be designed to grow in line with the wealth of the economy.
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