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*10. Перескажите текст на английском языке.

The problems of economic security

The fundamental role of national security in today’s world in formation of national policy and national development is stressed up. While governing their political system many countries pay special attention to its security considering it to be the main component in the triad of security-stability-development.

The maintenance of national security much depends on the development and stability of economy. In connection with it the speaker pointed out the importance of strategy in economic security, estimations, ways and mechanisms of its realization, ensuring the economic interests of the country and the region.

The component parts of economic security are economic independence, the stability of economy and ensuring its development.

The priorities of the government to ensure economic security are stimulation of the expend in export, structural reorganization of economy, the improvement of the major population’s living conditions and the formation of the middle class.

The most important threats to economic security are the permanent brain-drain, shadow economy and corruption.

To avoid any problems a system of economic security should be based on the worked out results of the monitoring, analytical computations, forecasts, etc. A conception of economic security must be worked out, every year it will neatly define priority directions in providing security. Of course, for the realization of these theses legal basis of economic security must also be provided.

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Text 12 welfare

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Elderly, charity, donation, subsidies, vouchers, welfare, welfare state, public aid, refer to, in addition to, bring acclaim from, inter-governmental organizations, universal healthcare, unemployment insurance, monetary payments, general government revenue, recipients.

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1. The third largest source of government revenues is value added tax (VAT), charged at the standard rate of 17.5% (temporarily cut to 15% between December 2008 and December 2009) on supplies of goods and services.

2. This pared with tax structures found in some areas, such as Utah, where the poor pay more of their income as a total percentage on taxes, i.e. those making below $16,000 annually pay 11.4% of their income on taxes while those earning at least $280,000 pay 5.5% (because citizens reach the top tax bracket at $4,313 for a single person), has led to growing number of poor and a wider gap between the rich.

3. Nationally, as of 2005, the top federal tax bracket for a single person is 35% and reached at an income of $326,451.

4. For someone with the full number of qualifying years (years in which NI contribution was paid - typically 44 for a man and 39 for a woman, although this reduces to 30 years on 6 April 2010), it is payable at a flat rate of £90.70 per week (2008/09).

5. The enhancement is actually 1% per 5 weeks the pension is not claimed, and the lump sum is the amount not claimed plus interest at 2% over the Bank of England's base rate.