A more effective and humane welfare stick is to make benefits conditional. That already happens with Britain's unemployment benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance. Recipients are obliged to seek work.

一个更有效、更人道的方法就是给救济金设定一个限制，英国失业补助和求职者津贴都设置了这一限制，那就是接受救助的人必须为自己找份工作。

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Relief is now conditional on recipients' efforts to gain skills and join the workforce.

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To help them, the investors' main trade bodies set guidelines: companies that give share options to their top people are urged to make them conditional on minimum growth in earnings-per-share, and to restrict their value to four times the recipients' annual earnings, at the time they are awarded.

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