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Moreover, unlike direct compensation schemes, a tissue tax does not exert undue influence on individuals or groups to donate tissue.
If employees feel more like insiders – a key purpose of military rituals – there is little need for incentive pay or pay-for-performance
schemes.
Once we do that, we must devote ourselves to identifying, untangling, and exposing the networks of Islamic hate and terror with the same energy and ingenuity that are now being applied to unraveling the global
schemes
of tax evaders.
Early-retirement
schemes
– one-third of public-sector employees currently retire before the age of 55 – should be targeted immediately.
Much will depend on how such profit-sharing
schemes
are designed and implemented.
Devious and erratic negotiating tactics, coupled with secret
schemes
to prepare – as part of a “Plan B” – for an exit from the euro, undermined the government’s trustworthiness, leading even Paul Krugman to admit: “I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.”
It makes it easier to eliminate budget deficits, and it makes it possible to increase education spending and to fund training
schemes
for the long-term unemployed.
They have looted public-sector resources through large-scale privatization schemes, and by securing public subsidies that rarely require them to deliver benefits to taxpayers.
In addition to the sheer range of rent-seeking
schemes
operating today, lax corporate reporting requirements around the world make it difficult to estimate the scale of the problem.
These
schemes
imply socialization of debt – taxpayers elsewhere in Europe would share a country’s debt burden.
The same is true of China’s retirement system: the workforce’s enrollment rate is around 50%, but only $600 of assets per worker (in national, local government, and private pension schemes, combined) are available to cover lifetime retirement benefits.
And yet some forms of cooperation, not least shared-liability schemes, would be a mistake.
In light of this small window of opportunity, the last thing France needs is more joint investment schemes, as some have proposed.
It is inconceivable that national policymakers, seeing to their countries’ own interests, would prevent these arrangements from mutating into permanent asymmetric transfer
schemes.
But there is a risk that they will take a back seat to other proposals, such as shared-liability
schemes.
Most of the discussion surrounding how to respond to Asia’s tsunami disaster has focused on government relief programs and official
schemes
to implement early warning systems.
As sports fans, musicians, and students of body language know, watching other people's movements and postures may facilitate the viewer's own motor schemes, sometimes resulting in unintended imitation.
Moreover, Russia could be convinced to accept Ukraine’s pursuit of economic integration with the EU, in exchange for cooperative efforts to counter
schemes
to use Ukraine’s free-trade agreement with the EU as a back door for European goods entering the Russian market.
It would be better if such
schemes
could be agreed upon by all by G-20 countries, as was briefly the case in the coordinated stimulus of April 2009.
Its current bailout
schemes
only help countries like Greece and Italy to borrow money cheaply in the face of prohibitively high market interest rates, while the schemes’ insistence on more budget-deficit reduction in these countries will reduce European purchasing power further.
Additionally, piece-rate pay
schemes
force workers to spend hours in extreme weather to meet demanding quotas.
Though law-enforcement, anti-trafficking, and child-protection agencies have long known about these abusive practices, solutions – such as employment schemes, legal immigration status, and improved health-care access – remain absent.
In some countries, an entire generation of young people could be lost because policymakers and companies are too shy about experimenting with new ideas, concepts, and
schemes.
This objective underlies our “simplification schemes” for negotiation and consultation in the business sector.
For example, governments could implement accelerated depreciation
schemes
for investment in low-carbon businesses; offer subsidies for investment in energy-efficient buildings; and create policies that favor industrial innovation aimed at reducing emissions and boosting competitiveness.
For workers to accept more labor mobility and flexibility as creative destruction eliminates some jobs and creates others, appropriate
schemes
are needed to replace income lost as a result of transitional unemployment.
The pay-as-you-go (PAYG) systems in place in many countries are giant intergenerational transfer
schemes.
But the baby boomers (those born from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s) paid little into the PAYG
schemes
because economic growth, population size, and their parents’ low life expectancy made financing pensions easy.
Innovative
schemes
are underway: in parts of Africa, for example, mobile phone companies have begun piloting ways to provide customers access to solar energy.
But both
schemes
will need adequate resources and firmness of purpose if they are to make a genuine impact.
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