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...‘The money is pouring in’ Under the iron leadership of Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore who died in 2015, the city-state was propelled after independence from Malaysia in 1965 from a south-east...
...But when these conditions normalise then Australia has a lot of problems,” said Peter Costello, chair of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, and the longest-serving treasurer in Australia...
...Countries can also transfer money from other EU budgets, such as cohesion funds, to spend on RePowerEU....
...Eighteen unions representing millions of public sector workers, many of which are currently involved in strike action, said in a joint letter on Thursday that imposing further austerity to fund tax cuts...
...The hundreds of millions of workers who have migrated from farms to factories in recent decades do not qualify for city welfare benefits, forcing them to save....
...Sterling’s value plunged against the US dollar, and a sharp spike in government bond yields prompted the Bank of England to unveil an emergency programme to buy gilts to safeguard pension funds....
...The Taiwanese investment fund is being set up to counter some of those actions....
...Lots of countries clapped for healthcare workers. Britons alone clapped for a health system....
...China’s retirement threshold is one of the world’s lowest — men can receive state pension benefits from the age of 60, women from 55 — putting additional pressure on social welfare funds....
...“Most people expect someone who uses our services to be vulnerable,” says Lizzie Iron, the PSU’s head of service....
...To deal with the unemployment risk, Beijing has introduced a Rmb100bn redeployment fund to provide settlement money and subsidies for laid-off workers....
...Remember, firing workers reduces the savings rate because when you work you consume out of your income....
...These workers were promised retirement benefits during the era of the “iron rice bowl”, when the Communist party took care of worker welfare....
...Unemployment was virtually non-existent and businesses thrived as an army of workers arrived to work in the dozen mines that ring the town....
...Auto companies have begun suspending or laying off workers, while private banks are holding back on lending after defaults hit a record high during May....
...The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund, by Anita Raghavan, Business Plus, RRP$29 Raghavan digs into the insider trading scandal at Galleon...
...Vale, the large Brazilian miner, has come under attack from an indigenous tribe, which took workers and a mayor prisoner in an incident that is set to become more frequent as the country rushes through ambitious...
...What I ask of Vale is that they turn iron ore into steel in Brazil and that they buy ships from Brazilian shipyards.”...
...To help each other through the bad times, the clan – like many others – operates a welfare fund: every male above the age of 16 is required to contribute at least five shekels (around 85p) a month....
...Jack Thurston, transatlantic fellow at the Marshall Fund, points out that for countries like France, with an inner core of relatively well-paid and secure “insider” workers, there is a deep fear of going...
...I could imagine those thousands of hotel and resort workers and others now in limbo, not knowing how they would support themselves and their families....
...workers....
...Latin American and Caribbean migrant workers in the US are doing well. Remittances sent back last year rose 17 per cent to $53.6bn (?30.6bn, ?...
...The Iron Chancellor introduced the world’s first state pension in Germany in 1889....
...And let me add because it is morally wrong that when firms go under, workers through no fault of their own lose their pensions too, so in partnership we have set up the new Pension Protection Fund, and for...
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