There may also be a reluctance to admit that such a gushing provision of liquidity has altered the policy stance.
Some tax-policy specialists contend the provision artificially favors income in insurance policies over things like interest on bank certificates of deposit.
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To address these issues, the Federal Reserve has developed a second set of policy tools, which involve the provision of liquidity directly to borrowers and investors in key credit markets.
Technically the purchase of bonds is not a substitute for fiscal policy, it is a liquidity provision for purchasers of the sovereign debt and an act of faith that the governments will pull through when fear induced panic selling arises.
They will review trends from rapid growth in student numbers to the surge in private provision, address emerging new dynamics and their policy implications, examine the social responsibility of higher education, and recommend measures to promote equity and stimulate innovation and research.
Since the 1970s, American social policy has been drifting steadily towards private provision.
The government has published new planning advice to councils, the National Planning Policy Framework, telling them to make provision for more development and give more permission for new developments.
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In that second letter Mass Mutual advised petitioner that his policy was issued with an automatic premium loan provision.
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However, he told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Labour would look at the provision for well-off pensioners as part of its policy review.
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"Bringing in more complication to the tax code, another difficult tax provision for the IRS to administer, and dubious tax policy at best is not the answer, " Zerbe said.
Mr. Cuccinelli said he believed the ruling also applied to the provision that allows children to stay on their parents' insurance policy until they turn 26 years old, which went into effect this year.
As part of their preparatory work for the summit, finance ministers, when they met in Halifax, also discussed another much-heralded policy initiative, first introduced in 1999: the provision of debt relief to the poorest developing countries, known as HIPC.
It is harder to predict the outcome of demands that an heir marry within a certain faith: An Ohio court validated such a provision in 1974, but an Illinois appellate court struck down another in 2008 (on public-policy grounds) and the state's Supreme Court sidestepped the issue.
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