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Huge two-way gross capital flows are driven by transient changes in perception, with carry-trade opportunities (borrowing in low-yielding currencies to
finance
lending in high-yielding ones) replacing long-term capital investment.
Moreover, capital inflows frequently
finance
consumption or unsustainable real-estate booms.
Long-term debt
finance
of real capital investment can play a useful role as well.
The flow of knowledge, finance, and technology that underpins sustained high growth rates in emerging economies is closely linked to an open, rule-based, and globalized economy.
The government’s few technocrats, including the deputy prime minister and the
finance
minister, are holdovers from the previous coup government of 2006-2007, and they complain that they lack authority.
Yes, blockchain technology is very exciting and will likely have many applications in banking, finance, and across the economy.
Creditors offer debt relief to get more value back and to extend as little new
finance
to the insolvent entity as possible.
A few months later, in November, the Eurogroup (comprising eurozone members’
finance
ministers) indicated that debt relief would be finalized by December 2014, once the 2012 program was “successfully” completed and the Greek government’s budget had attained a primary surplus (which excludes interest payments).
The answers to these questions cannot be found by discussing sound finance, public or private, for they reside firmly in the realm of power politics.
Liberals and social democrats supported a private-ownership economy, markets, European integration, and increased trade, tempered by substantially redistributive taxes and transfers, a strong social safety net, and some public ownership in areas such as infrastructure and
finance.
In concrete terms, a country may have to choose between repealing a
finance
bill adopted by its parliament but rejected by its eurozone partners and losing the joint guarantee.
Moreover, there are signs that wage gains are now broadening out, with the balance tilting away from low wage-inflation industries such as manufacturing, health care, and education into higher wage-inflation industries such as finance, the information sector, and professional and business services.
India’s foreign-exchange reserves stand at $278 billion (about 15% of GDP), enough to
finance
the entire current-account deficit for several years.
We believe that innovative development
finance
can play a role in helping the 180 CITES parties to realize the convention’s full potential, by adapting widely available cutting-edge technologies and tools to the business of trade permits.
Innovative development
finance
can mobilize private capital and public funding to create and commercialize technologies that can be used by CITES.
The approach we envision is paradigmatic of innovative development
finance.
In a meeting this month,
finance
ministers of G-8 countries agreed to follow the US and perform stress tests on their banks.
The hope was that longer-term capital flows would
finance
the widening current-account deficit, which exceeded 8% of GDP at the time, mitigating the risk of a sudden stop in external financing.
The proliferation of information technology and social media means that it is easier than ever for entrepreneurs to tap into a large pool of
finance
– not to mention contacts and expertise – from small investors.
A short list would include Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former
finance
minister of Nigeria;Nandan Nilekani, an entrepreneur who led an impressive bio-identification program in India; and Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore’s deputy prime minister.
As a result, the eurozone’s fiscally sound countries are being asked repeatedly to compromise their prudent policies in order to
finance
endless bailouts.
All other central bankers,
finance
ministers, and even presidents run a distant second.
This is partly because much of world trade and
finance
is indexed to the dollar, leading many countries to try to mimic Fed policies to stabilize their exchange rates.
Households are running scared, so they cut expenditures as well, and businesses are being dissuaded from borrowing to
finance
capital expenditures.
Even before the Great Depression, Europe’s enlightened “bourgeois” classes recognized that, to avoid revolution, workers’ rights needed to be protected, wage and labor conditions improved, and a welfare state created to redistribute wealth and
finance
public goods – education, health care, and a social safety net.
The US government is the world’s largest funder of medical research and development; globally, taxpayers
finance
a third of spending on health research.
But, unlike libertarians, centrists do not think markets can cure all ills; on the contrary, in some cases
(finance
is the most obvious example), unregulated markets can be a source of instability.
Chile is an example (full disclosure: I was Chile’s
finance
minister at the time).
He faces a challenge from Nigeria’s esteemed
finance
minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Colombia’s former
finance
minister, José Antonio Ocampo.
Many of the lost jobs – in construction, finance, and outsourced manufacturing and services – are gone forever, and recent studies suggest that a quarter of US jobs can be fully outsourced over time to other countries.
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