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A well-functioning market would produce outcomes that favor banks with the right exposures, the right compensation schemes, the right risk-sharing, and therefore the right corporate governance.
Here the problem is the incompatibility of insurance schemes, on the one hand, in which the benefits that people receive are based on what they have contributed, and, on the other hand, social assistance programs that entail cash transfers.
All EU countries, including the new members, should be encouraged to adapt social assistance
schemes
(which also exist in the new member states) so as to meet some basic income requirements.
EU-wide coordination of these minimum guaranteed income
schemes
should be gradually pursued, with the long-term intention of building up a pan-European safety net as one of the institutional pillars of the EU.
For example, policymakers must defuse the competitive pressures between food and fuel by designing
schemes
to counter price volatility for basic foodstuffs.
To achieve both goals, Russia's elite will need to share some of its new wealth, and not only with people hurt by reforms, but with the state, through enacting taxation
schemes
that allow, say, for energy taxes to begin to cover some of the costs of pensions.
Keynes’s proposal never made it into the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, and, while buffer-stock
schemes
re-surfaced in the 1970’s, they, too, went nowhere.
(Many European governments currently have “cash-for-clunker”
schemes
that buy and destroy old cars; a cash-for-gas-engines scheme would make more sense by lowering costs and conserving the many car bodies that still work fine.)
But in Mexico, they are deeply rooted in the country’s laws and institutions, and social subsidies and micro-lending
schemes
have reinforced them.
A series of trials has underscored the importance of microcredit program design, and, in many cases, these
schemes
simply don’t do much good in eradicating poverty.
Commissioned by Tata Trusts and Copenhagen Consensus for India Consensus, Professor Nilanjan Banik from Bennett University, Greater Noida, studied the
schemes.
The changes that countries like Spain and Portugal are making to their labor laws, pension schemes, and regulatory systems are encouraging.
In many cases, governments will also need to design food-security programs such as social-insurance
schemes
and direct transfers that target the poor.
The community-based health insurance
schemes
that are prospering all over Africa are a good example of this.
In the US, the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) program and the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) were in effect debt-forgiveness
schemes
aimed at sub-prime mortgage holders, but on too small a scale.
Conditional cash transfers, text-message-based initiatives, school-based food programs, vitamin-fortification schemes, and local leadership have all proved effective in improving maternal nutrition.
Youth prevention programs, cracking down on gangs, and recidivism reduction
schemes
would yield massive pay-offs compared to their costs, thus representing a sound investment in Latin America’s future.
Such funding schemes’ great innovation is that the richest people would pay, regardless of their own country’s economic position.
Modi’s government has also revealed a fine talent for announcing grandiose
schemes
and failing to finance them.
The European Union and other developed countries are already intent on tackling the problem of global food security, and could easily tailor their own
schemes
to become part of this wider program.
Ensuring long-term economic growth and social cohesion requires a commitment to health and safety, a better balance between work, family and leisure, lifelong learning, greater workforce diversity, gender-blind pay and career prospects, and profit-sharing and equity-ownership
schemes.
Rather, it has taken topics one at a time, seeking to reach consensus separately on each: the completion of efforts undertaken by the 2010 South Korean presidency to strengthen multilateral liquidity-provision schemes; the strengthening of multilateral surveillance; the appropriate use of capital controls; and a change in the composition of the basket of currencies that comprise the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights, a unit of account that was once expected to evolve into a global store of value.
Even so, it would be preferable to leave the technicalities of the SDR basket and liquidity-provision
schemes
to finance ministers, and to let heads of state and government discuss the issue for which they are indispensable: the politics of global currency reform.
Some 40 countries – including Canada – are also putting a price on carbon pollution, and more governments are planning to implement similar
schemes
soon.
Such incentive pay
schemes
have driven the outsize increases in compensation for the top 1% of the wage and salary distribution.
For example, one reason why France spends a lot on public pensions is that there are virtually no private pension
schemes
in the country.
True, public pension
schemes
generally involve some degree of redistribution.
In any case, if desired, substitution of private for public pension
schemes
may help reduce government spending without major distributive effects.
But the broad range of proposed
schemes
to bolster resources for development assistance raises hard questions about the appropriate balance between objective needs and sound and effective financing.
China, for one, has launched seven pilot emissions-trading schemes, covering a quarter-billion people – the second-largest such effort in the world (after the EU).
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