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As a result, it is unlikely to affect the operations of the small local banks lending small
amounts
to impatient low-income consumers.
Because eligibility for benefits under these programs does not depend on income or wealth, the
amounts
spent for these programs are not included in outlays targeted at the poor.
It
amounts
to a pre-approved loan that eligible countries can obtain whenever they want, on the basis of the strength of their fundamentals and policy record.
And that aid has consistently been delivered in the same inefficient ways, even as the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) and others have repeatedly highlighted enormous
amounts
of waste, fraud, and abuse.
The number of rich households
amounts
to barely 0.7 million in India and one million in Brazil.
The declaration, these critics attest, was created by colonial powers with a long history of gross human-rights violations, and
amounts
to yet another attempt by a few Western players to impose their will upon Muslim countries.
Islamic conservatives and fundamentalists go a step further, as they declare that no human invention can equal – much less supersede – sharia law, which
amounts
to the word of God.
Since its launch in 2012, the OMT program has allowed the ECB to buy, if necessary, unlimited
amounts
of troubled eurozone countries’ government bonds, provided the affected countries subscribe to the rules of Europe’s rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism.
The German court suggests that this would require that “government bonds of selected member states are not purchased up to unlimited amounts,” along with the assurance that the ECB would not run the risk of write-off losses at maturity.
The OMT scheme
amounts
to free insurance against a default by southern eurozone countries, thereby subsidizing the return of private capital flows to places where they were squandered before.
When it comes to financial risks, data crunchers have access to vast
amounts
of information.
In fact, US official development assistance
amounts
to just 0.15% of America’s GNP, which is less than one-fourth the global target.
This hardly
amounts
to an agenda to fight economic inequality and exclusion, and it is revealing that rich businessmen wrote the largest checks to support Leave.
Huge
amounts
of corporate money from Coca-Cola and Adidas went sloshing through the system, all the way to the roomy pockets of Third World potentates and, allegedly, of Havelange himself.
Western businessmen, architects, artists, university presidents, and museum directors – or anyone who needs large
amounts
of cash to fund their expensive projects – now have to deal with non-Western autocrats.
The only byproducts of gas combustion are carbon dioxide, water, and small
amounts
of nitrogen oxides.
To be sure, the guarantee that the US, as the issuer of the dominant international reserve currency, can acquire low-cost funding for its fiscal deficit and national debt
amounts
to what former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously called America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
We know that pre-crisis demand was boosted by massive
amounts
of borrowing.
Their absence makes it difficult to invest too large
amounts
of money in Russian securities.
Vast
amounts
of short-term capital, speculating on interest rate convergence or equity market gains, are flowing into the most advanced candidate countries, driving up their currencies and increasing their vulnerability to a sudden capital-flow reversal.
Sometimes this approach works, and sometimes it does not; but it always
amounts
to playing with fire.
The interest rate on long-term bonds has been kept abnormally low in the past few years by the Federal Reserve’s “unconventional monetary policy” of buying massive
amounts
of Treasury bonds and other long-term assets – so-called quantitative easing (QE) – and promising to keep short-term rates low for a considerable period.
Those were the days of sharply rising incomes, when Japanese households could increase their consumption rapidly while adding significant
amounts
to their savings.
Although they had experienced large declines in share prices and house values, they had such large
amounts
of liquid savings in postal savings accounts and in banks that they did not feel the need to increase saving in order to rebuild assets.
Many countries in Africa bear witness to the disproportionate
amounts
devoted (mainly by private foundations) to combating AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, while general health-care services receive only symbolic sums.
For the sake of what principle can we ask China and India, for example, to limit their economic dynamism so that they use smaller
amounts
of the planet’s natural resources?
Whereas “Web 1.0” facilitated the storage and transmission of vast
amounts
of different kinds of information in cyberspace, “Web 2.0” supposedly renders the whole process interactive, removing the final frontier separating the transmitter and receiver of information.
In 2002, 13% of overseas development aid went to children’s education; today, that figure is 10%, and in low-income countries it
amounts
to no more than $17 dollars per child, on average.
Since 2008, however, few aspiring entrepreneurs have been able to borrow significant
amounts
of money from banks.
Although Greece’s public debt
amounts
to about 175% of GDP, low interest rates – which are fixed for a large proportion of it – and long maturities mean that it may be more manageable than it seems.
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