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In short, the EU will no longer be able to offer attractive membership prospects to neighboring countries, nor will it be able to allocate adequate resources for surrogate membership
schemes
like the Eastern Partnership.
Political leaders plead impotence, intellectuals dream up implausible global-governance schemes, and the losers increasingly blame immigrants or imports.
While there are currently other priorities, it would be useful for the IMF to study anew an SDR substitution account and similar
schemes.
Even after the global economy began to recover, governments channeled their resources toward dubious and uncoordinated
schemes
to support energy production and consumption, rather than effective investments aimed at driving a shift toward more sustainable energy systems.
But most of these well-meaning
schemes
are missing an essential ingredient: demand.
Getting Basic Income RightWASHINGTON, DC – Universal basic income (UBI)
schemes
are getting a lot of attention these days.
America’s drive to force Iran to stop its nuclear program through an ineffective sanctions regime has been no more successful than any of its other
schemes
to isolate the region’s extremists.
They are able to resist all meaningful reform that could really change their compensation
schemes.
Unlike France, however, they also used census data to identify pockets of new unemployment, and to invest socially and politically, not only in excellent job-training programs, but in job creation, and, just as importantly, in job-placement
schemes.
Next, the Commission will build on our current proposals for deposit-guarantee
schemes
and bank resolution mechanisms to move toward a single resolution fund and a single resolution authority.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has pushed through two important regulatory changes that could free up billions of dollars in private capital for social-impact investing, including pay-for-success
schemes.
Indeed, the most frequently heard arguments against such
schemes
are far from convincing.
But such
schemes
should not be dismissed in the developing world, where conditions are such that they could offer an affordable alternative to administratively unwieldy and ineffective welfare programs.
Similarly, if the region’s governments were to introduce efficient, equitable pricing of public services and utilities – including water, electricity, and transport – they would create fiscal room to promote job creation with
schemes
linking education and employment.
From 17th c. onwards often applied to delusive commercial or financial schemes.”
Over the last five years, some 325 different pension
schemes
have been merged into 11, but not in a way that has contained costs.
Enabling developing countries to generate just 1% more of GDP in taxes would mobilize twice as much money as the total amount of ODA – and all of it could be channeled into education, health, security, or cash disbursement
schemes.
From that experience, we have developed, alongside the OECD, initial principles to help guide and inspire future carbon-pricing
schemes.
Other countries should focus on improving the conditions for long-term savings, such as through occupational pension
schemes.
When the market boomed, such schemes’ authors were heralded as geniuses.
Staggered alignment of economic and social policies (such as the legal retirement age), new balancing
schemes
(euro bonds as a transfer instrument), and an effective stability mechanism are all needed to preserve the common currency.
Such efforts should promptly translate into legislative changes in areas ranging from insolvency to patents, from CO2 emission-reduction
schemes
to “smart” electricity grids.
Take pension reform, which aims to reduce the scope of state-run, pay-as-you-go systems and expand private, fully funded
schemes.
The result is a temporary increase in budget deficits; the fiscal benefits appear only when private
schemes
start taking over pension liabilities from the state-run systems.
Experimental
schemes
have been implemented in Latin America in which child allowances are conditional on school attendance and vaccination.
Cash aid has sometimes replaced food aid in humanitarian crisis situations, and there have been targeted social protection
schemes
in Zambia, as well as incipient welfare
schemes
for the elderly in India, South Africa, and Lesotho.
For cash-transfer
schemes
to work, they must be regular, predictable, and long term.
But under no circumstances should these
schemes
be established as purely donor-driven mechanisms that bypass local budgets and institutions.
To be sure, there are excellent reasons for taxing profits in order to fund benefits for the poor, and for worker-ownership
schemes.
Meanwhile, in India, the state governments in Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu are about to launch the world’s first cap-and-trade
schemes
for particulates.
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