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Bank debts have to be converted into equity and, where banks are insolvent, written off.
Instead of discarding the remaining 99.8%, the company could, say, grow mushrooms and, with the waste from that process, create a protein-rich livestock feed, which could also be converted into a natural source of energy.
But so deep is the prejudice in Indian society that many converted Sikhs found that their new co-religionists of higher castes, who dominate the faith’s official religious bodies, treated them no better than Hindus had.
Policy debates in the US are chiefly preoccupied with ensuring that banks are never “too big to fail”; that private investors rather than taxpayers hold “contingent capital,” which in a crash can be converted into equity; and that “over-the-counter” markets’ functioning be improved through greater reliance on centralized trading, clearing, and settlements.
Built in the early 1940s as a “regular” labor camp, Perm-36 was converted into a concentration camp for political prisoners in 1972.
Yet, with some simple technological and design improvements – aimed, for example, at achieving higher rates of composting and recycling – 90% of this waste could be converted into something useful, such as biogas and resource-derived fuel.
In a nuclear reactor, 1-2% of the uranium fuel is inevitably converted to plutonium.
They have also paid back a significant share of external debt and converted much of what remains into more manageable local-currency liabilities.
Facilities built to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports have been converted to process exports.
After all, Jews are destined to be converted to Christianity before the end time.
As communism disintegrated, senior apparatchiks ingeniously converted their waning power into financial stakes in the emerging market economy.
Loans were made in rubles which banks converted into dollars on the black market and stashed abroad in massive capital flight.
Even if the world runs out of oil and gas in the coming years, coal will prove to be plentiful, and solid coal can be converted at relatively low cost to liquid fuels for automobiles and other uses.
For decades, these banks have been selling “foreign savings” to developing countries by lending at high interest rates and in a foreign currency, fueling the accumulation of massive amounts of foreign debt, which would often be converted into equity.
What would have happened if Argentina's provincial governors had also miraculously been converted to the IMF's niggardly "logic," as demanded?
Populists effectively converted these memories into a political force that rejected efforts leading to globalization and an open society.
Ideally, bank creditors would not lose money, because their fixed-interest claims would be converted into bank shares of similar value.
Greece largely succeeded in following the dictate set by the “troika” (the European Commission the ECB, and the IMF): it converted a primary budget deficit into a primary surplus.
Residue from forest, agricultural, and agro-industrial activities could be collected and converted.
The Duke of Sully (1559-1641) conceived of a Christian European republic, which the Turks could join only if they converted to Christianity.
The latter process converted data from an analog to a digital format.
Yet fracking has increased supply so rapidly that these facilities are now being converted to export LNG.
Many plants were converted to allow them to produce power and district heating at the same time.
Using well-established techniques, these “willingness-to-pay” figures were converted into an overall value of premature deaths caused by outdoor air pollution, as illustrated, for example, in the OECD’s Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies.
For lenders, debt could be converted, wherever possible, into equity in MDG projects with earning potential, while building up poor countries’ capacity for self-reliance.
Rather, bonds should be at least partly converted into equity capital, and any infusion of new capital by the government should be in exchange for securities that are senior to those of existing bondholders.
Los Angeles took decades to implement pollution controls, but other cities, like Beijing, converted rapidly when they saw the benefits.
They traveled hundreds of miles and converted their cash for just 1% of the foreign exchange they would have received had they been allowed to exchange it at the official rate applicable for food and medicines.
Instead of a world deadlocked over currencies and trade and retreating into the illusory shelter of protectionism, we could see $3 trillion of growth converted into 25 million to 30 million new jobs, and 40 million or more people freed from poverty.
Only such “just” growth can eventually be converted into high GNC: “Gross National Contentment,” a truer index of economic well-being.
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