In recent years governments have embarked on a plethora of schemes to encourage childbearing, including a "women's handbook" to educate young females on the high and low points of their fertility, and state-sponsored matchmaking events.The chief reason for the dearth of births is the decline of marriage.
So with all this assistance available, why on Earth would you want to organise your own internship or placement?! Well, despite the plethora of schemes, perhaps the right programme for you just doesn't exist.
Complained the Economist: "the plethora of schemes in place for Indians to claim subsidized food, fuel, gas, electricity and so on are inefficient and corrupt".
Each toll road operator has so far decided on its own how to design and implement systems for collecting road user charges, causing a plethora of system and scheme designs.
A plethora of certification schemes has generated confusion among consumers and retailers, and capital-intensive certification schemes may be out-of-reach or impractical for some small-scale fisheries, particularly within the developing world.
But research shows that decentralisation of student support can actually harm access and increase inequality, for three main reasons: There are a plethora of support schemes out there, and every university is offering something different.
The government has also introduced a plethora of other schemes, such as mandatory work activity, sector-based work academies, and the community action programme, which can force jobseekers to take unpaid work for up to six months as a condition of their benefits.
Instead, a plethora of confusing schemes have been dreamt up and implemented within Whitehall, granting a rare omnipotence to the Jobcentre Plus advisor, who faced with the nation's unemployed can sign droves of jobseekers into unpaid work with no account given to their needs, skills or skills gaps.
It looked at the plethora of special schemes being run by the government to try and improve life in the poorer parts of England, and concluded that the clashing bureaucratic regimes of different Whitehall departments meant that a lot of effort and money was being wasted.
"The government and the industry are right to say that there is a desperate need for action on these issues - and it's great to see consumers increasingly making ethical choices at the checkout, but in reality the plethora of voluntary schemes and initiative that have been created over the years haven't translated into real change for workers on many retail supply chains," a spokesman said.
In deed there is as well almost a plethora of LOS schemes for pedestrian traffic.
