The idea is that at least part of senior executives' hefty pay packages can be recovered if they run banks that fail or receive remuneration based on bad numbers.
Challenges to the community midwifery programme include: unavailability of drugs, equipment and supplies, lack of transport for referrals, long distances and bad roads, limited funding, inadequate remuneration, lack of supportive supervision, heavy workload, high cost of registration fees, insecurity, TBAs and lack of refresher trainings.
The issue has been made complex by a host of small problems and competing imperatives, overlaid (in some cases) by remuneration arrangements that encourage bad practice.
That high level of variable pay should lead to sizeable fluctuations in total remuneration, as good years follow bad, and vice-versa.
The whole apparatus sustaining the celebrated meeting of the minds atop Switzerland's magic mountain (which ends today) relies on the ethos of copious remuneration that Mr. Obama is blithely bad-mouthing.
In terms of pro-active regulatory interventions, the Swiss have been at the forefront with an overall leverage cap for their large institutions, an innovative ring-fencing framework for bad assets at UBS, and a risk-adjusted remuneration scheme at Credit Suisse (i.e., to pay top bankers based on the performance of the toxic waste they originated or acquired on behalf of the bank).
The remuneration committees which decided pay would be so conscious of the bad publicity excessive rewards might attract that it would act as an automatic constraint.
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And although pay levels for bankers have fallen a bit since then, and more remuneration is deferred and capable of being cancelled if deals go bad, the sums shelled out still look enormous at a time when earnings for the vast majority of households continue to be squeezed.
