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A Time for Action in the Middle EastLONDON – The announcement, following the use of chemical weapons in Syria, of an emergency summit in Jordan this week of military leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar is a welcome development.
As one of the most junior officers in the embassy, I was often summoned as an emergency fourth player for tennis at the Ambassador’s residence.
As a consequence, we find ourselves in an undeclared state of intellectual emergency, one that, regrettably, has given rise to the states of emergency that our governments proclaim in the wake of terrorist attacks.
Dealing with this emergency requires, above all, saying and doing the opposite of what has most often been said and done.
Emergency assistance is crucial in this fragile time; but it is not enough.
Our financial wealth is not liquid in an emergency.
Many are imposing emergency measures like export taxes or bans, which help their own citizens, but at the expense of those elsewhere.
The original swap lines might fairly be classified as emergency measures.
But what may be permissible and justifiable in a financial emergency may not be appropriate as standard practice during normal times.
Closing the TB Funding GapNEW YORK – In the 25 years since tuberculosis (TB) was declared a global-health emergency, policymakers and health-care professionals have devoted considerable time discussing ways to eliminate it.
If a country were at war and knew that one-third of its population were certain to perish in the next ten years, its leaders would most likely declare a state of emergency and commit every resource at their command to averting that outcome.
The US also encouraged the International Monetary Fund to give Pakistan emergency financial assistance equivalent to $11 billion, to be disbursed starting in late 2008.
Emergency support from a few friendly governments has so far limited the erosion of Egypt’s foreign-currency reserves at a time of mediocre tourism earnings and growing imports of food and other basic necessities.
So far, the Greek crisis has been treated as a recurring emergency, rather than the structural problem that it is.
The Case Against Emergency Food AidNiger’s food emergency has reached the world’s headlines, but the crisis there is only one part of a much larger disaster.
The irony is that donors then respond with very expensive emergency food aid, which typically proves to be too little and too late.
The cost of sending such help would be around $50 million, and the benefits would be $200 million to $300 million in increased food production next year (and hence less needed in emergency food aid).
But emergency food aid is not enough.
As a result of policymakers’ heavy focus on the exchange rate, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has now accumulated more than $4 trillion in reserves – far exceeding the amount needed to cover any imaginable currency emergency.
In addition, the international community should offer emergency funding to help provide deposit insurance for the banking system, thereby re-establishing a modicum of confidence in financial institutions.
In 2012, more than 2.4 million Americans over the age of 65 were treated in emergency rooms for injuries from falls alone.
If the real interest rate on Greek debt were 4% (more or less what Greece is paying now for the emergency loans from the European Union) and annual GDP grew by 2% on average, the required primary fiscal surplus each year for the next quarter-century would be 5.7% of GDP.
Germany currently pays a little over 3% nominal interest on 10-year debt, half of what Greece is being charged for emergency loans – and far less than Greece would pay if it attempted to raise money in private markets.
Indeed, these countries are already experiencing large relative price increases for food and oil, a food emergency for the poor, and higher rates of inflation induced by commodity price shifts.
Estimates show that emergency relief in famines costs seven times as much as preventing them.
The recommendations included increasing affordable transportation to family-planning facilities, expanding access to modern contraception (including emergency contraception), increasing the availability of sex education, and developing strategies to reduce the stigma of abortions.
Germany’s formula for the euro crisis has been to insist on fiscal belt-tightening and structural reforms to reduce future public spending on pensions and wages, make labor markets more flexible, and boost productivity, all in return for emergency loans.
Second, Western central banks should start rolling back the emergency measures put in place in response to the financial and economic crisis.
The revenue is all spent on the upswing, forcing disruptive emergency cutbacks on the way down.
When courts preside over nonfinancial bankruptcies, they depend on private lenders to provide emergency liquidity.
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