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When I travel abroad and meet lawyers interested in the Assange case (and they are many), I get asked the most incredible questions about Sweden’s legal system.
Putin’s Ironic PotentialMOSCOW – Vladimir Putin’s recapture of the Russian presidency has been met with widespread derision, both at home and abroad.
But it does not have a symmetrical effect, because government debt from southern European countries, where the debt binges and current-account deficits of the past occurred, are mostly repurchased abroad.
Sadly, pro-Europeans cannot hope for any help from abroad.
But many abroad would not, either because his second re-election would undercut arguments against others intent on perpetuating themselves in power, or because it would complicate their relations with Colombia.
El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cuba, to cite three examples, had more than 10% of their native population living abroad in 2010.
By contrast, many Latin American countries have substantial diasporas abroad, but few equivalent success stories.
Diasporas are not gusanos or worms, as Fidel Castro refers to Cubans abroad.
It also prohibits countries from issuing new permits to North Korean workers abroad, whose wages, it is suspected, help fund nuclear and missile programs.
Given the US dollar’s dominance in international transactions, Chinese companies investing abroad also face risks associated with exchange-rate fluctuations.
People there want to see an end to the safe havens that allow corrupt officials to steal public money and stash it abroad.
That is still true, both at home and abroad.
For Rivero and journalists who smuggled their missives abroad, it was their insistence on writing what they saw and felt that put them in jail.
Rivero formed an independent news service and under the noses-and watchful eyes-of the authorities, sent his work abroad.
But a combination of factors, including slowing economic growth and a gradual relaxation of restrictions on investing abroad, has unleashed a torrent of capital outflows.
Too much of our country’s wealth has been damaged by war, taken flight abroad, or been siphoned off through corruption.
Towering levels of corruption damage not only the authority of government at home, but the very standing of Georgia as an independent state abroad.
One under-exploited resource is diaspora financing – that is, the remittances and savings earned by nationals working abroad and sent home to family and friends.
But Qaddafi’s regime became an international pariah mainly for a series of terrorist plots abroad, not for crimes against humanity committed against Libyans.
Capital flight stems from myriad causes: debt servicing, the awarding to foreign firms of almost all contracts financed by multilateral lenders (and exemptions from taxes and duties on these goods and services), unfavorable terms of trade, speculation, free transfer of benefits, foreign exchange reserves held in foreign accounts, and domestic private capital funneled abroad.
Borrowers, in turn, use these foreign loans to increase their accumulation of private assets held abroad, even as strict budget discipline and free capital movement - implemented in line with IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs - have led to skyrocketing interest rates.
The pool of fleeing capital includes assets acquired legally at home and legally transferred abroad; capital acquired legally at home and illegally transferred abroad; and illegally acquired capital that is funneled abroad illegally.
Since Asia’s banks borrowed short-term funds from abroad for long-term domestic investments, there are not enough short-term assets around to allow all investors to get their money out of Asia if all of the investors simultaneously decide to flee the region, as is now happening.
Since the banks are large net international debtors, who have borrowed from abroad in dollars (and yen) to re-lend domestically in local currency, the balance sheets of the banks worsen every time the Asian currencies fall further.
The IMF "remedy" so far has been to tighten credit and close banks, on the grounds that tight credit and high interest rates will attract funds from abroad.
They are either unemployed or working as unskilled laborers in Bulgaria or in the black market abroad.
The creation of the euro was accompanied by large-scale financial liberalization, including the elimination of capital controls and the adaptation of the legal framework to allow any European bank to open branches abroad.
The graduating classes of top American universities are packed with foreign students, and 27% of physicians practicing in the US today come from abroad.
While only 3% of Spanish and 4% of French people with tertiary education live abroad, 7% of Italians and 9% of Germans do.
Several governments have declared that taxpayer money cannot go into operations abroad.
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