Perhaps the common theme is a willingness to blur the boundary between state and public provision?
As for public provision, lower incomes and higher unemployment have affected contributions to state pensions.
That would settle the argument about the relative merits of private and public provision in the state sector.
This is a reasonable response to poor public provision, but it is dangerous.
But the real opportunities for the private sector lie in poorer countries, where public provision has so often been inadequate.
Although pension savings are the longest-term commitment that people make, governments cannot keep their hands off the arrangements for public provision.
As a result, he concurs with the British approach, which will increasingly confine public provision to a pension covering basic needs.
Other countries in Europe do it by a mixture of public provision and encouraging people to spend more of their own money.
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The meritocratic assumption is that public provision of basic services, particularly education, does enough to counter this advantage to give everyone a reasonable start.
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Instead, students are finding an inelastic market with collapsing public provision.
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But, where public provision of social services is the norm, as in most of continental Europe, governments have been more ambivalent, seeing private provision as a sign of state failure.
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Cash transfers have been successful in Latin America, he says, because they are "seen as a complement, not a substitute, for public provision of health, education and other basic services".
Against that, Mr Christie and his team say that they are setting out a mid-term vision of an entirely different culture in public provision: prevention rather than cure, community-based rather than top-down.
The fundamental point is that, in the presence of inelastic supply curves, demand-side subsidies face a headwind of adverse price effects, while direct public provision gets a tail wind of favorable price effects.
Mr Christie's answer is that his Commission is contributing to a wider debate about how public provision is to be shaped: action which will be required, regardless of what is done in the immediate term about funding.
Charities involved in public service provision should also be covered by FoI, he added.
For those who don't get a card there is talk of fines, enforced registration and penalties in public service provision.
Mr Philpott said the likely scale of job cuts required would "inevitably have an impact on levels of public service provision".
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Public-health provision deteriorates both because budgets are cut and because demand rises as some middle-class Latin Americans can no longer afford private health insurance.
The same logic applies to public subsidies for any good or service where producers enjoy significant monopoly power: Direct provision of public goods has market forces on its side, while subsidies for private purchases work against the market.
However, successive and continuing government policies (and again this is an international phenomenon) of privatisation, contracting out, public-private partnerships, the private finance initiative, academy and free schools - all aspects of the private provision of public services - have increasingly entwined the public and private sectors and now focused attention on how far freedom of information should reach.
The provision of public goods will not equal the value of those goods to the public.
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Extending FoI would bring "disinfecting transparency" to the private provision of public services, he told the Labour Party conference.
The problem is that we cannot rely on a competitive market regime for economically efficient private provision of public goods.
He entered office with a new philosophy, the Third Way, that was supposed to revolutionise the provision of public services.
The covenant states "those serving should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services".
But the default position across the Scottish Parliament's parties has been to defend public services and universal provision as the top priority.
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