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The US is not alone in running generational Ponzi
schemes.
For example, single-sector initiatives, like HIV/AIDS treatment schemes, could include elderly-friendly health-care components.
Finally, community health-insurance
schemes
must be overhauled to prevent the exclusion of poor older patients.
Geared to closing gaping holes in the state budget, privatization sales became the favorite mechanism rather than mass distribution
schemes
in the manner of the Czechs.
In the early 1970’s, when public-service pension
schemes
were first substantially reformed, the life expectancy of a 60 year old had increased to about 18 years.
Current public-service pensions are almost all defined-benefit
schemes
based on a worker’s final salary.
Current final-salary
schemes
are not suitable for a modern workforce for three reasons.
In my final report, my main recommendation was that current defined-benefit
schemes
be replaced by new career-average (CARE)
schemes.
CARE provides a fairer outcome than those produced by the current final-salary
schemes.
I propose a switch to career-average
schemes
because they are easier to understand and simpler to implement.
But CARE
schemes
would still leave substantial risk with the government.
Additional controls are needed to make sure that risks are shared more equitably than in current
schemes.
The first way to do this is to link pension ages in most of these
schemes
to the state pension age, thereby reflecting changes in life expectancies and controlling longevity risk.
As it is, even Roman Abramovich’s Sibneft – potentially the most vulnerable company due to its oligarch ownership and its use of the same tax minimization
schemes
that were the undoing of Yukos – merely faces a preliminary claim for back taxes.
For example, micro-credit has empowered millions of women, while important lessons have been learned from such schemes’ design and implementation.
Policies that tackle structural biases head-on – from minimum wages to, potentially, universal basic income
schemes
– are also needed.
What all such
schemes
amount to is piling one lot of bonds on top of another in an attempt to square the circle of Greece’s inability to pay, and to minimize the losses faced by its creditors – mostly European banks.
But until they do, policymakers should start thinking about how pay-or-play
schemes
could be used to address growing popular disenchantment with a corporate sector where only insiders seem to benefit from rising profits.
Here in the United Kingdom, there are a few areas where pay-or-play
schemes
could prove useful.
Of course, young people must become proactive if such
schemes
are to be effective.
The most shocking feature of today’s corporate-tax-avoidance
schemes
is that they are legal.
Time-bound subsidy schemes, public venture funds, and export subsidization are some of the ways in which this approach can be implemented, but there are many others.
In implementing this plan, governments must refrain from the temptation to turn national measures into narrow protectionist
schemes.
Significant improvement is needed in mentoring, parental leave, childcare, and elder care, as well as more gender-equal retirement and pension
schemes.
Worse still, the demographic threat is being heightened by the way most countries finance their public pension
schemes.
This type of extreme financial incentive is particularly true in some countries like Belgium or the Netherlands with easily accessible early retirement
schemes
-
schemes
which, to boot, often fail to adjust benefit levels to offset their longer duration.
It is argued that early retirement systems cater to needs that are different from those addressed by traditional PAYG
schemes.
However, early retirement
schemes
also imply tremendous-and often neglected-costs for government budgets and the pension systems by increasing benefit payments while reducing contributions.
If countries meet their commitments under the Paris climate agreement, the total sea-level rise could be halved, with more ambitious
schemes
promising even greater reductions.
In flood-prone countries, city-planning
schemes
should blend gray infrastructure, such as drainage systems, dikes, and sea walls, with green measures, like conservation of wetlands and forests.
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