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No wonder that many are now skeptical about taxpayer-funded
schemes
to bail out banks, insurance companies, and even automakers.
A policy of expanding legitimate micro-lending
schemes
and prosecuting illegal loan sharks, not to mention the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices that require fewer expensive (and environmentally dangerous) inputs, would do far more to help India’s poorest farmers than this expensive and misguided measure.
Koizumi slashed a large portion of the budgets for public works and abandoned the rural population, which depended on a variety of redistributive
schemes.
And immigration experts like me have proposed since the 1970’s that
schemes
be developed to enable the academic diaspora to run workshops aimed at bringing teachers up to the best international standards.
For their part, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States have created observer
schemes
and systems to assess and manage fish stocks.
In parallel, European post-doctoral
schemes
need reappraisal.
In the US, such
schemes
contribute to widespread dissemination of expertise, whereas European laboratories still use them as waiting lines without putting enough emphasis on multinational and multidisciplinary trajectories.
Redistribution
schemes
benefit the population if, and only if, they are controlled by democratic feedback.
Moreover, to reduce even further the potential for conflict, employee-owned firms often adopt costly strategies, such as the rigid seniority-based profit-sharing
schemes
found in many law firms or the firm-wide job rotation that typifies US plywood cooperatives.
And now, CCS is even being promoted as an enabling technology for magical
schemes
that can “suck” carbon out of the atmosphere.
As a result, only a small minority of the global population has full, legally guaranteed access to existing social-protection
schemes
– leaving roughly 5.6 billion people worldwide vulnerable to various degrees.
We need to go beyond donations and reduced-pricing
schemes
to build sustainable health-care systems with strong distribution channels and education programs for the public and for health-care workers.
The government has identified and closed a few of these Ponzi
schemes.
Cubans are in the end consigned to hold fast to rigid and impossible
schemes.
By seeking to compress net interest margins, including through lower expenses and more efficient data assessments and aggregation, and by targeting an enhanced consumer experience, such empowerment
schemes
could serve to reduce the cost of financial intermediation while providing for fairer risk-pooling outcomes and better credit underwriting.
Independent work and micro-entrepreneurship are a third source of gainful employment, often supported by government lending
schemes.
Silvio Berlusconi's ally in government, the Lega Nord (Northern League), is continuously conjuring up
schemes
to embarrass the national government with threats to the concept of national unity.
The European Commission has proposed a single rulebook for banks’ capital requirements; mutual support between national deposit guarantee schemes; and Europe-wide rules for resolving failing banks that place the main burden on bank shareholders and creditors, not on taxpayers.
Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, declared in December that “we don’t legalize pyramid schemes,” and “we are totally opposed to private money, no matter if it is in physical or virtual form.”
These can – and, in some cases, already do – include adjusted bonus
schemes
for managers, relevant monitoring requirements, and environmental labeling on consumer packaging.
Moreover, international provisions in the pending tax legislation will give US multinationals an even greater incentive to invest, hire, and produce abroad, while using transfer pricing and other
schemes
to salt away profits in low-tax jurisdictions.
A key recommendation is the creation of national “youth guarantee schemes,” which would ensure that all citizens under 25 can obtain a job, an apprenticeship, or a traineeship within four months of leaving formal education or becoming jobless.
Given the potential of such
schemes
to narrow the gap between education and work, and to improve young people’s employability, member states should pursue this recommendation earnestly, by implementing measures aimed at enabling labor integration and forging partnerships with stakeholders.
By advancing globalization – by forcing ever-more openness down the people’s throat – they have accumulated massive wealth, which they then protect through tax avoidance, offshoring, and other
schemes.
To be sure, behind the Union’s great
schemes
lurks another EU, one that is excessively bureaucratic.
The international auctioning of emissions allowances and allowances in domestic emissions-trading schemes, a carbon tax, revenues from international transport, a surcharge on electricity transmission, and financial transaction taxes could generate as much as $220 billion per year in additional revenues.
Back then, financial-market participants had to devise fantastic
schemes
and contortions to disguise interest payments.
Like many pension schemes, compulsory employer and employee contributions underpin the system.
In countries like Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, the rise in unemployment has been contained so far by massive use of short-time working schemes, which freeze workers with permanent contracts into their current jobs.
Russian and foreign investors alike were duped by the Kremlin's debt pyramid
schemes.
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