A survey last year by the McKinsey Global Institute backed up what many economists have long argued: that the lack of a social safety net is one of the main reasons that Chinese households save.
去年麦肯锡全球研究所(McKinsey Global Institute)所作的一项调查,印证了许多经济学家长期以来抱持的观点:社会保障网络的不足,是中国家庭储蓄的主要原因之一。
Ideally, the infrastructure would be built in a manner that engages the local community. For example, food for work schemes provides a social safety net whilst simultaneously providing infrastructure.
最理想的情况是,当地社区参与到基础设施的建设中来。比如,工作计划的食品在建设基础设施的同时提供了社会安全网络。
There is no chance that will change anytime soon, even if the government creates a better social safety net and successfully encourages greater consumer spending.
即使政府创造了一个更好的社会保障体系,并成功地鼓励更多的消费支出,这种情况也不可能在短期内改变。
Like much of the social safety net, the current UI system was a product of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
一如大部分的社会安全网络,现代的失业保障体系来源于富兰克林·罗斯福的主意。
By focusing on job creation in services, massive urbanisation, and the broadening of its social safety net, there will be a large boost to Labour income and consumer purchasing power.
通过在服务领域创造就业机会、扩大社会保障网络,极大地促进劳动力收入和消费者购买能力。
But there are quite a lot of studies showing that many countries now are investing in the right activity-for example, protecting the social safety net.
但是,也有许多研究显示,许多城市目前正在致力于正义的活动中——比如,保护社会安全网。
The aftermath of the breakup of the USSR also brought widespread industrial closures, and a nearly total collapse of the social safety net.
苏联解体也造成大量工厂倒闭的后果,几乎令社会安全体系完全崩溃。
Only a quarter of vulnerable countries will have the financial resources to lessen the impact of the financial downturn with social safety net or job-creation programs, says the Bank.
世行说,只有四分之一的脆弱国家能够获得财政资源,以通过社会安全网或创造就业岗位的方案减轻金融低迷造成的影响。
The new policies mostly worked eventually, once they were backed by a social safety-net.
在社会安全网络的支持下,大多数新的政策最终都发挥作用了。
China is aiming to promote domestic consumption through a variety of measures, such as boosting the minimum wage for its workers and building an improved social safety net.
中国正在努力通过各种措施——如增加工人的最低工资和建立更好的社会保障体系——来促进国内消费。
These assurances, coupled with a stronger social safety net and employment provisions (see article), may help lift some of the deflationary fog that has lain heavy over Japan for so long.
这些保证加上更强的社会安全网及岗位供也许会有助于缓解困扰日本许久的通货紧缩的压力。
That would be impossible, he says, given how much he must save to protect himself against medical and other emergencies in a society that has only a flimsy social safety net.
他说,这怎么可能,还要为医疗以及其他不时之需作准备,中国的社会保障太微不足道了。
Consider that Germany, which has a generous social safety net, relatively high wages and just 80 million people, is the world's second-largest exporting country.
德国拥有优厚的社会保障、相对较高的工资,以及仅有8,000万的人口,同时也是全球第二大出口国。
And money sent home from overseas workers has also declined significantly, threatening a source of income that has functioned as a "social safety net" for millions of people, says McKechnie.
McKechnie指出,境外工人向家中的汇款也大幅减少,对数百万人口倚重的社会保障类收入来源构成了威胁。
Despite a robust social safety net - including free education and health care - there are poor Saudis, and many in the middle class barely make ends meet.
尽管社会保障体系颇为强大——包括免费教育和医保——但一些沙特人依然穷困潦倒,很多中产阶级人士只能勉强糊口。
Whether poor, rich or somewhere in-between, China will certainly need to spend some money to provide a basic social safety net for its people, not just the old but everyone.
不管是贫穷、富裕或者处于二者之间,中国肯定需要花钱为她的人民提供基本的社会保障,这种保障不仅仅针对老年人,而是需要针对每个人。
Whether poor, rich or somewhere in-between, China will certainly need to spend some money to provide a basic social safety net for its people, not just the old but everyone.
不管是贫穷、富裕或者处于二者之间,中国肯定需要花钱为她的人民提供基本的社会保障,这种保障不仅仅针对老年人,而是需要针对每个人。
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