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Fortunately, this could well be the year that green digital finance comes of age.
In the words of David Brooks of The New York Times: “After decades of affluence, the US has drifted away from the hardheaded practical mentality that built the nation’s wealth in the first place….America’s brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting, and nonprofit activism.”
Uruguay suffered cruel stagnation from the middle 1950s to the 1970s, brought about by rampant protectionism, irresponsible public finance, and tight exchange controls.
China’s entrepreneurs and its rapidly expanding middle class are concerned, first and foremost, about their property rights, including the security of their accumulated wealth, amid regulatory tightening with regard to taxation, finance, cross-border capital flows, and even the environment.
She recently met with former Japanese finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, and Kim Kwan-jin, the chief of South Korea’s National Security Office, recently met with Abe’s national security adviser, Shotaro Yachi.
For example, Norway, which has been promoting positive gender discrimination for years and recently elected Erna Solberg as its first female prime minister, has yet to allow a woman to control the purse strings – at either the central bank or the finance ministry, with its powerful sovereign wealth fund.
In response, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent an urgent letter to government, business, civil society, and finance leaders, urging them to attend a special Climate Summit in New York in September.
Commodity prices were high, benefiting African and Latin American countries in particular, and external finance was plentiful and cheap.
When buyers find it difficult to finance home purchases, sellers have to cut the asking price.
It has to do with the deep admiration of markets that has developed during the boom, in line with the “efficient markets theory” in academic finance.
It is notable that Russia recently completed an agreement to finance a nuclear power plant in Hungary, and looks likely to do the same in Turkey.
Moreover, they have been granted direct control over resources – such as land, finance, energy, and raw materials – and local infrastructure development.
Africa's Odious DebtsOne side effect of the American/British occupation of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance: the debts taken on by odious regimes.
America's authorities argued that Cuba's debt had not been incurred for the benefit of the Cuban people, nor with their consent, and that foreign loans helped to finance their oppression.
The logic of sound banking tells us that current and future African governments should accept liability only for those portions of public debts that were incurred to finance bona fide domestic investment or public consumption.
Of course, more donor finance for education is only part of the equation.
Then came the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis, with its roots in lax government finance in some (mostly southern European) countries.
Nevertheless, I am glad to see that Skidelsky (unlike Krugman) acknowledges the need for supply-side reforms “to improve skills, infrastructure, and access to finance,” and concedes that he and his fellow Keynesians “have been slow to understand that a government cannot increase the national debt without limit for a cause in which most people do not believe.”
According to the Zimbabwean finance minister, Tendai Biti, four years after the military took over the diamond fields, the national treasury has received not one penny of royalties from the sale of Marange diamonds.
Otherwise, they compete to become bureaucrats at the most influential ministries – for example, finance, economy, or foreign affairs – or they try to get on the fast track to the top of elite firms like Toyota or Sony.
The Cooperative AlternativeWASHINGTON, DC – In an era in which conventional models of finance, corporate governance, and corporate responsibility are increasingly debated, if not called into question, it may be time to revisit the alternative approach taken by economic cooperatives.
The third potential candidate, Kevin Warsh, is a former Fed governor, who also has a background in finance – in this case, at Morgan Stanley – rather than in academic economics.
As Chile’s finance minister a few years ago, I learned this lesson the hard way.
Most of them probably depend directly on donations from the Koch brothers and the lobbying organizations that they secretly finance.
Economists around the world have taken note of the arrival of Raghuram Rajan as chief economist in the finance ministry.
Back then, Singh, as finance minister, played a central role.
I experienced this firsthand as Poland’s finance minister during and after the 2008 financial crisis.
In contrast to development finance, the incentives of potential lenders and borrowers are not aligned.
The US should tap India’s potential as an engine for economic recovery, and consult much more closely with it on matters of finance, trade, and investment.
Concerns about bankruptcy - that the high interest rates pushed by the IMF in East Asia would force firms into distress, even adversely effect the exchange rates while destroying economies and making countries less attractive to investors - derived from a theory of corporate finance, itself derived from theories of asymmetric information.
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