It provided Asia with a new backstop financing facility — in essence, a self-insurance fund that came in very handy in successfully cushioning the blows of an unprecedented global shock.

这给亚洲提动了一个新的金融保障设施——从本质上讲，是一种可成功缓冲前所未有的全球危机打击的很便捷的自我保障基金。

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Indeed, the crisis may have spurred some countries to seek even more self-insurance in reserves and other forms of prudential saving.

确实，目前的危机也许会激发部分国家通过储备和其它形式的审慎储蓄方法寻求甚至更多的自我保护措施。

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If countries believe they will have easy access to IMF money when trouble arrives, they may choose collective protection over self-insurance.

如果在危机出现时，一些国家认为他们会很容易地得到IMF的资金，那这些国家就可能会放弃自我保护，采取集体防御的手段抵制危机。

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Liberal Democrats support the proposal for a self-supporting government insurance plan to compete with private ones.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Public officials, the self-employed and those who earn more than about $70,000 a year can choose private insurance.

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The Senate measure relies on the new exchanges with emphasis on U.S.states retaining flexibility, to expand coverage to self-employed Americans, to small businesses and others currently without insurance.

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He said his firm is financially solid enough to bear the risk of self-insurance.

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The trouble is that standby generators are not a very compelling form of self-insurance.

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The self-insurance against financial fragility is part of a more general bent towards precautionary saving in the developing world.

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