One, Fife Council, is progressing plans for a pilot scheme.
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It's currently not clear if the pilot scheme will be extended.
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Pula, for example, is on a pilot scheme in Zambia, involving 150,000 farmers.
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Under the pilot scheme, China will initially select up to three qualified companies.
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Waste Management, for example, has started a pilot scheme to turn it into diesel.
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A pilot scheme mandates reviews of foreign stakes in a wide array of "critical technologies".
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The British Army's pilot scheme will look to test a range of virtual reality applications.
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The announcement of the pilot scheme also lifted shares of investment banking firms and brokerages.
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The pilot scheme will cover a few dozen armored infantry transports (Bradley M2A3s) deployed in active service.
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National Express' loan is the first bilateral Sonia-linked loan under a pilot scheme operated by NatWest.
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This month a pilot scheme of compulsory coding lessons is due to start in some Stockholm schools.
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In July, 2014, SASAC launched an ownership and management pilot scheme at six central government-owned SOEs.
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A pilot scheme has already uncovered 20,000 "ghost farmers"—such as dead people and children—on existing registers.
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The pilot scheme, designed to rein in debt risks among financial holding companies, also included retail conglomerate Suning.
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The government is continuing this year with a pilot scheme with Brunei and Thailand kicked off last year.
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The pilot scheme is a milestone in the development of self-driving cars, but relatively limited in scope.
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Thomas Book, chief executive of Germany's Eurex exchange , said on Tuesday it had launched a six-month pilot scheme.
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Malaysia has started a pilot scheme to get Rohingyas into work, but it has only 300 participants so far.
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This has made issuers adopt very cautious approach towards the pilot scheme, according to an onshore credit rating analyst.
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Yi also said China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is seeking input from the banks on the pilot scheme.
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China's top five banks would participate in a pilot scheme for bond futures trading, the watchdog said on its website.
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Earlier this year, Shanghai made public new reform measures for its state-owned companies, including a pilot scheme of employee shareholding.
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In a statement last Monday, BOC says it is actively participating in the securitisation pilot scheme, without giving any further details.
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Nvidia and Volvo have previously used the PX platform for an autonomous car pilot scheme called "Drive Me," announced earlier this year.
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It will run a pilot scheme with Barclays' Premier banking unit in the forthcoming months and is focused on improving customer service.
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In 2017, Lawson began a pilot scheme to keep the magazines out of their stores in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa.
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A pilot scheme in Suining county, in Jiangsu province north of Shanghai, gives clues about what such a system might mean in practice.
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NatWest's pilot scheme uses the same methodology seen in the sterling FRN market, which includes the compounding of interest and ability to hedge.
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The plan's pilot scheme encourages the utilities to "actively introduce external capital," including the use of debt-to-equity swaps to cut debt.
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China will initially select up to three companies in the H-share convertibility pilot scheme, but investors see the move as a positive step.
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The pilot scheme is to be Loon's first commercial service in Africa, achieved through working with Telkom Kenya, a partly-state owned telecommunications firm.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has launched a pilot scheme to export crude oil via Mombasa as part of efforts to capitalize on the country's oil reserves.
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It had already been part of a pilot scheme launched in 2011, with smaller class sizes for rigorous new reading sessions and more personalised learning.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) told a press conference in Beijing that it will initially select up to three companies in the pilot scheme.
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The pilot scheme will run from spring 2019 until the end of December 753, during the planned transition period following Britain's March 2019 EU exit.
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Under the pilot scheme, a group of 300 Rohingya would be allowed to work legally in the plantation and manufacturing sectors, according to Malaysian officials.
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H&M would not disclose details of how many products it plans to stock, but a spokeswoman confirmed it is "a small scale" pilot scheme.
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On March 30, China's securities regulator announced its own pilot scheme to encourage the very same group of companies to list in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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Also on Thursday, UK power company Drax received a 5 million pound grant from the government for a carbon capture pilot scheme from its power station.
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The pilot scheme has boosted options for allocation of overseas assets by domestic residents and will help Shanghai develop into an international financial center, it added.
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One reason for optimism, however, is Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL), a pilot scheme run by the education ministry with help from Ark, a British education group.
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The 46-year-old Romanian was hired last year as part of a pilot scheme to recruit more foreign doctors to fill chronic vacancies in primary care.
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The government is also encouraging its mining industry to look at using electric lorries, with state copper miner Codelco recently announcing a pilot scheme to introduce them.
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Under its pilot scheme, home renters can borrow up to 251 million yuan ($212,000) with no collateral and have up to a decade to repay their loans.
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China has discussed a recurring property tax for years, but public progress on the initiative ground to a halt after a very limited pilot scheme in 2011.
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Uber formed an alliance with Volvo this week and plans to test driverless control systems in Volvos and Ford Fusion models in a pilot scheme in Pittsburgh.
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Uber's taxis will be assigned to passengers at random, while NuTonomy asked local residents to apply to join its pilot scheme before they can request a car.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China announced a pilot scheme on Friday to encourage tech, bio-tech and high-end manufacturing firms to list their shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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The central bank said it had accumulated "replicable experiences" from a pilot scheme on cross-border financing in Shanghai's free trade zone that was launched in early 2005.
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In its half-year results released July, Tullow Oil estimated that a pilot scheme will allow 2,000 barrels of oil to be produced by the middle of 2017.
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Having lost a string of internet champions to exchanges abroad, the People's Republic recently announced a pilot scheme to let firms sell shares at home using depositary receipts.
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The council has increased the police presence on the streets and even invited two British policemen to patrol Magaluf's streets as a week-long pilot scheme last summer.
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Tucked in the back of the leaked draft of DASKAA is a provision to make an obscure Treasury Department pilot scheme, called geographic targeting orders, nationwide and permanent.
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The country's top five banks would participate in a pilot scheme for treasury bond futures trading initially, China's securities regulator, which oversees the market, said on its website.
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M-PESA, Kenya's mobile-payment system, evolved out of a pilot scheme in 2005 by Safaricom, the country's biggest mobile operator, financed by DFID, the British government's aid agency.
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A pilot scheme in Quang Ninh province has merged the positions of party secretary and chairman of the people's committee—in effect handing executive authority to the party's man.
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Paul Gathitu said the pilot scheme at the Mombasa port, a notorious route for illegal trafficking of ivory, has helped increase detection rates and made the process more efficient.
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In Hong Kong, the government agency that devised the Food Truck Pilot Scheme had a new, bold and innovative idea: stationary food trucks that don't park on the street.
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"Let's do some sort of pilot scheme," Astudillo, a member of President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, told Milenio in an interview recorded last week but broadcast on Monday.
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Li said the pilot scheme would seek to reduce the price of the five drugs by over half, adding the drugs were currently expensive because they were patented or imported.
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SHANGHAI, March 19 (Reuters) - China's foreign exchange regulator will expand a pilot scheme to enable high-tech start-ups to borrow money more easily from overseas, it said on Thursday.
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A pilot scheme currently running at schools in Bresica, northern Italy teaches children about winemaking in Greek and Roman times, as well as the role of the drink in Italian opera.
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China has been discussing a recurring property tax for years, but public progress on the initiative ground to a halt after a very limited pilot scheme was rolled out in 2011.
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CSC provided protection in the form of credit-risk-mitigation warrants (CRMW), one of the two credit-risk management tools first introduced to domestic investors in 2010 under a pilot scheme.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German utility Uniper launched a pilot scheme at its Falkenhagen site on Wednesday to produce methane gas from wind power as the country seeks wider uses for renewable energy.
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Chinese airline Hainan Airlines, owned by HNA Group, said in January that it was testing a pilot scheme to allow travelers to bring small pets with them on certain domestic routes.
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The first batch of banks selected in the pilot scheme include Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Bank of Communications.
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Drivers who take part in the pilot scheme will be paid $300 to install an ad-display plus $100 for every week they drive more than 20 hours with it on.
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A half kilometer concrete stretch of road the Mvuma road in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province, constructed as a pilot scheme more than 20 years ago, is still intact and undamaged, he said.
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The two-year pilot scheme will provide 2,000 unemployed Finnish citizens, aged between 25 and 58, with a monthly basic income of 560 euros ($581.48) that will replace their other social benefits.
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BEIJING, July 240 (Reuters) - China's southern Guangdong province will include the aviation sector in the final year of its pilot scheme for trading carbon emissions permits, the local government said on Friday.
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In addition to Ningbo, five other regional, or local governments, including Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shandong and Beijing will also issue bonds via banks' counters this month in a pilot scheme, according to AgBank.
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According to a 2014 internal PINE presentation prepared by the then-chairman for the group's committee, a pilot scheme sent 51 food trucks to Borno state and 10 to Gombe state; none arrived.
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A incoming pilot scheme run by a south London hospital trust would require all women—regardless of whether they are British citizens—to prove they were eligible for treatment before accessing state maternity services.
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SHANGHAI, Dec 29 (Reuters) - China's securities regulator said on Friday it will launch a pilot scheme that will convert non-tradable Hong Kong-listed equities of so-called H-shares into free-floating shares.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's securities regulator said on Friday it would launch a pilot scheme that allows mainland-incorporated companies listed in Hong Kong to convert their non-tradable equity into free-floating shares.
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In November, China launched a pilot scheme to loosen approvals for new drugs and allow smaller research bodies to apply directly for approvals, part of a drive to create more innovative domestic drug firms.
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"SIPC was picked as a pilot firm ... The model could eventually be the way to reform SOEs, to change companies' management behaviors and capital structures," said a Sinopec executive involved in this pilot scheme.
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Stockton, a city in California where one in four residents lives in poverty, launched its own pilot scheme last year, giving $500 a month to 125 people living below the median income of $46,000.
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A pilot scheme will be available to drivers in Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix and will run until April 1 when commercial advertisers will have the chance to put their ads on the car-toppers.
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It will also broaden the scope of a pilot scheme that allows institutions to swap debt to preferred shares and allow insurance funds and pension funds to invest in asset management products, it said.
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In Kenya, however, Tullow has stopped a pilot scheme producing oil and trucking around 600 barrels a day to the coast due to security issues around cattle rustling and banditry, Chief Executive Paul McDade said.
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"All provinces, regions and cities must closely connect regional practices, integrate reform pilot scheme experience, implement the overall plan according to the decision of the party's Central Committee, and promote organizational integration," the report said.
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Previously, Forst could only contact states but under a pilot scheme that began in 2016, he has sent allegations of abuses by multinational companies against activists directly to the firms' boards then questioned their directors.
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Under the two-year pilot scheme, the company will set out to produce green methane by using carbon dioxide from a bio-ethanol plant and mixing it with the hydrogen, creating a gas-like substance.
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"Shanghai has recently continued to press ahead with the QDLP pilot scheme and has started vetting QDLP licenses with plans to grant institutions quotas within the existing QDLP limit," the regulator said in an email.
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From April 2017 the investment grant will be replaced by an equivalent amount of almost GBP103bn business rates to be transferred to TfL by the GLA under a pilot scheme for further business rates devolution.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland should emulate Britain's social security system as it plans new welfare reforms after a basic income pilot scheme that attracted global attention, Finance Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday in an interview.
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NatWest's pilot scheme, which offers large corporate customers bilateral Sonia-linked loans, is expected to be launched into the wider market in the second half of 2019, after lessons learned from the project are incorporated.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China plans to allocate 2 billion yuan ($290.16 million) to a low-tax pilot scheme to bolster small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in urban areas, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
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This being the first sale of NPL-backed securities under the pilot scheme, analysts and bankers expect the underlying assets to be of relatively higher quality, such as secured loans with higher expected recovery rates.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will steadily implement a pilot scheme under plans to set up a long-term mechanism in the property market, Vice Premier Han Zheng was quoted by state television as saying on Monday.
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In the next few weeks the first wave of electric vehicles under Ola's pilot scheme, including two-wheelers, rickshaws and cars, will roll out in the southern state of Telangana and Nagpur city in central India.
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Li Chao, vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), told the annual Boao forum in southern Hainan that the IPO pilot scheme could lay the ground work for further reforms in China's capital markets.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) told a press conference in Beijing that so-called H-share companies can apply to participate in the pilot scheme, and the regulators will initially select up to three qualified companies.
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A pilot scheme in Zhoushan, eastern China, demonstrates how that might look in the energy sector - private investors are leading a project for a $15 billion mega-petrochemical complex that could compete head-to-head with Sinopec.
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But protests and security problems have halted a pilot scheme which currently trucks around 600 barrels of oil per day to a storage facility in Mombasa before a pipeline is built which should be operational by 2022.
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China's State Council announced on Friday a pilot scheme to encourage technology, bio-tech and high-end manufacturing firms to issue shares in mainland centers Shanghai and Shenzhen, pitting them against the offshore market of Hong Kong.
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Sainsbury's, the world's largest retailer of Fairtrade products, started stamping its own "Fairly Traded" label on its own brand tea in May as part of a pilot scheme to move to an internally managed ethical sourcing scheme.
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"We will steadily implement a pilot scheme under plans for a long-term mechanism to ensure stable and healthy development of the real estate market, and evaluate and track the implementation," state television quoted Han as saying.
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BEIJING, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Chairman Yi Huiman said the country's Big Four state-owned commercial banks and Big Four asset management companies would be included in the country's debt-to-equity pilot scheme.
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"I don't just drive, I also work regularly in the warehouse, doing stock duties, which makes it more varied," said Patrick Klankert, a 28.84-year-old, who is one of 2100 drivers DHL has hired under the pilot scheme.
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He did not provide details on when Didi plans to start the pilot scheme or how large the fleet will be, but said the firm won permits from the Shanghai government to test its self-driving fleet on Wednesday.
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Lesley Hinds, who has responsibility for transport and the environment on Edinburgh council, says a pilot scheme there to encourage children to walk to school, by closing roads outside nine primaries, has been so successful that it may become permanent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The London Metal Exchange will launch a one-year pilot scheme using its electronic system for tracking material stored in China outside its warehouse network, it said, a milestone in its ambitions for the world's biggest metals consumer.
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The failure thus far of this pilot scheme is a blow to wider corporate and governmental efforts to bring South Africa's estimated tens of thousands of informal miners, or "zama-zamas," into the mainstream, to boost productivity and curb crime.
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Critics say the pilot scheme to allow 2,500 migrants from non-European Union nations to work on farms for up to six months is "fundamentally flawed" because the upfront visa and travel costs could leave workers vulnerable to debt bondage.
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The institute is in Malawi, and builds on the work of a pilot scheme launched in 2017 with support from U.N. children's fund UNICEF, in which drones have been used to deliver medical supplies, monitor crops and map cholera outbreaks.
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China has said it will look to lower import taxes for cars and carry out a pilot scheme to loosen foreign ownership rules for new energy vehicles, a term China uses to refer to fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
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To test their ideas Messrs Betts and Collier have helped establish a pilot scheme in Jordan, with help from Western governments (the EU has offered trade concessions) and companies like Asda, a British supermarket, which uses suppliers that hire refugees in the zone.
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Among them is 35-year-old Boukari Lawali, who struggled to produce enough food for his family from his six-hectare plot before 2015, when the United Nations launched a pilot scheme to help farmers in his village use rainwater more effectively.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will start a pilot scheme in the first half of next year, aiming to relax restrictions on foreign firms' ownership of new energy and special use vehicles businesses set up in free trade zones, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG, July 25 (Reuters) - Agricultural Bank of China Ltd , China's third-biggest lender, plans to sell a record 3.06 billion yuan ($464 million) worth of bad loan-backed securities this week under a government pilot scheme to quickly liquidate soured debt.
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Kela, the organization which runs Finland's social security systems and is running the pilot scheme, hopes the basic income experiment will boost employment, because the current system can potentially discourage the unemployed to find work as their earnings reduce the benefits they may receive.
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The plan for the Congo pilot scheme is to give each sealed bag of cobalt produced by a vetted artisanal miner a digital tag which is entered on blockchain using a mobile phone, along with details of the weight, date, time and perhaps a photo.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday it was working with Malaysia on a pilot scheme to allow refugees from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority to work in the country, in a move that it described as a "win-win" solution.
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Related: Mexico's heroin farmers: the trail of destruction starts in the poppy fields In May, leading newspaper El Universal revealed that the federal government has been exploring the idea of some kind of legalization pilot scheme of poppy production for medicinal purposes in Guerrero.
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SHANGHAI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing plans to start using self-driving vehicles to pick up passengers in a district of Shanghai city in a pilot scheme, a senior executive said, taking a further step towards commercialising self-driving technology.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong could launch a pilot scheme in 2018 allowing startups valued over $1 billion to list shares with different voting rights on the bourse's main board, provided there is sufficient investor protection, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Friday, citing two unidentified people.
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Meanwhile, a DEFRA spokesperson said a three-month pilot scheme in conjunction with Dogs Trust and local authorities to rehome puppies abandoned in quarantine at the port of Dover, where the majority of the puppies crossing from Europe arrive, had seen 30 dogs rehomed since its implementation in December 2015.
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Since last year the group has been running a pilot scheme to transport some 2,000 barrels per day by truck to the port city of Mombasa to test flow rates and other technical issues before the start of full production and exports via a pipeline, to be built by 2022.
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"Through the pilot scheme we aim to demonstrate that the technology we've developed is a cost-effective way to achieve one of the holy grails of CO2 emissions strategies — negative emissions in power production, which is where we believe the potential CO2 emissions reductions are likely to be the greatest."
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There is an expectation that the pilot scheme will be centrally funded by government, although providing a town with a population of even a few thousand with a fixed amount over two years would come in at tens of millions, as well as the costs of administering and evaluating the trial.
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Seedrs, an equity crowdfunding platform in the U.K. which has provided £210 million ($273 million) to over 500 start-ups since its launch in 2012 including financial technology (fintech) firms such as WeSwap, is set to launch a secondary market pilot scheme for investors "in June", according to its chief investment officer, Thomas Davies.
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According to Michael Lwin of Koe Koe Tech, a firm that has launched a pilot scheme to allow local governments to offer services online, this system puts the average annual rental value of the 23,516 recorded properties in the relatively affluent city of Taunggyi at $21, when in practice buildings are let out for much more.
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FRANKFURT, May 1.03 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday, which is a public holiday, though the stock market is open: The German utility launched a pilot scheme at its Falkenhagen site on Wednesday to produce methane gas from wind power as the country seeks wider uses for renewable energy.
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