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But these
schemes
make firms more profitable by making their suppliers, workers, and customers poorer.
Moreover, the government may – and should – merge all existing pensions
schemes
into a single system (as it should with the social security, health insurance, and family subsidy systems).
Indeed, while climate-aid
schemes
proliferate, many countries are still wasting billions to reduce gas prices artificially.
Expanded individual retirement accounts and 401K pension schemes, special incentives for low-income households (most of which have no retirement plans), and an end to the financial repression that the Fed’s zero-interest-rate policy imposes on savers must also be part of the solution.
Flawed – or nonexistent – health-finance
schemes
are the fourth, and perhaps the largest, barrier to drug delivery in many countries.
But the radical, sometimes harebrained, nature of the current crop of
schemes
is exceptional by historical standards.
Various insurance
schemes
and government subsidies over-stimulate demand for medical services by making the price to consumers artificially low.
But, since the Monterrey conference, major additional development-finance needs have been identified, including aid-for-trade
schemes
and financing for climate-change mitigation and adaptation.
Similarly, debt-conversion
schemes
such as Debt2Health and debt-for-nature swaps would allow countries to redirect debt-service payments to development projects.
Alas, instead of adapting tried and tested mechanisms, various CIS countries invent ever more complex schemes, such as the five-state Customs Union, which was renamed the Eurasian Economic Community last year, when its failure became evident.
The difference between the two
schemes
is that mine would provide instant relief to Italy and Spain.
But
schemes
such as public subsidies for scrapping old and fuel-inefficient cars simply led many people to re-schedule their purchases.
But even before convicts became part of China’s overseas development effort, some Chinese projects, especially dam-building schemes, were embroiled in disputes with local communities in Botswana, Burma, Pakistan, Ghana, and Sudan.
Indeed, while a small manufacturer for the domestic market might adhere to the official rate, the large domestic and multinational firms that account for most production and exports worldwide are well-positioned to take advantage of tax avoidance
schemes.
Politically, that debate focuses on the costs of bailouts and on tax
schemes
designed to “get our money back.”
Jordanians of the caliber of Former Prime Ministers Abdelsalam Al-Majali and Taher al-Masri, as well as a former adviser of King Hussein, Adnan Abu-Odeh, have been advancing
schemes
for a Jordanian-Palestinian solution.
There are plans to extend the program to 300,000 families, and to add other climate-friendly projects, such as renewable-energy
schemes.
The European Central Bank has done its best to help, with special
schemes
that fund banks to lend to small and medium-size enterprises.
Such large-scale technological
schemes
must be regulated diligently, to ensure that climate-change solutions do not adversely affect sustainable development or human rights.
It requires that aid to poor countries be sustained; that governments focus on expansionary macroeconomic policies that support employment and broad-based economic activities; that new
schemes
be introduced to extend health services and social protection for the poor; and that investments in education, water supply, sanitation, agriculture, and food security receive the support they need.
Vivid images have stuck in people’s minds from that episode: long lines of cars at gas stations, people riding bicycles to work, gasless Sundays and other rationing
schemes.
A Defeat for International Tax CooperationNEW YORK – Most of the world’s governments – eager to mobilize more tax revenues to finance development and curb pervasive tax-avoidance schemes, such as those revealed in the so-called Luxembourg Leaks scandal last year – have an interest in collaborating on taxation matters.
Companies like Rolls-Royce and British Gas operate impressive apprenticeship
schemes
that add value for their businesses by creating a pipeline of talented recruits.
Of course, compensation payments and fees for government guarantees are being levied on banks participating in taxpayer-funded stabilization
schemes.
Another set of findings is sure to upset zealots from the right: tax-and-transfer
schemes
can have, and are having, a significant impact in reducing inequality.
That is why every functioning society has regulatory bodies that set the rules of competition, monetary and fiscal institutions that perform stabilizing functions, and social insurance schemes, transfer policies, and other social arrangements that bring market outcomes into conformity with a society’s preferences regarding the distribution of risks and rewards.
Effective profit-sharing
schemes
must be structured to prevent this outcome, and strong collective bargaining rights can help provide the necessary safeguards.
But there aren’t a lot of companies today that are willing to offer long-term defined-benefit pension
schemes.
Not even America’s IBM – which prides itself on stability – wants to take the risk of offering defined-benefit
schemes.
In short, the global economy – replete with get-rich-quick schemes, overpaid bosses, and corporate fraud – has lost its moral bearings.
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