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Turkey fuels its growth by tapping international capital markets to
finance
its annual external borrowing requirement of around $250 billion.
China has created four functioning global-scale modern supply chains in manufacturing, infrastructure, finance, and government services, thanks to its evolving, expanding, and complex web of contracts.
Regulators’ push for sounder
finance
has so far focused on requiring more capital, creating safer products, and establishing more resilient business structures.
Yet here, too, neither the neo-Keynesians nor the supply-siders have exerted much effort to improve the institutions of development
finance.
Instead of producing sustained rapid growth and economic stability, such policies made countries more vulnerable to the power of the rich and the vagaries of international
finance
and global instability, which has become more frequent and severe due to deregulation.
In an open letter to the US president in September 2007, American professionals in cyber defense warned that “the critical infrastructure of the United States, including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense, and the Internet, is highly vulnerable to cyber attack.
What else could he possibly mean when he calls for a newly created eurozone
finance
ministry that can accrue jointly guaranteed debt and collect its own taxes.
The problem, at least, is simple: As
finance
has become more complicated, regulators have tried to keep up by adopting ever more complicated rules.
Their basic point is that financial firms should be forced to fund themselves in a more balanced fashion, and not to rely so heavily on debt
finance.
The so-called “green
finance
task force” – co-convened by the PBOC’s Research Bureau and the UNEP Inquiry into Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System – initially comprised 40 ministers, regulators, academics, and financial actors, supported by international experts.
Green
finance
is at an early stage in China, just as it is in the rest of the world.
According to Pan Gongsheng, the PBOC’s deputy governor, green
finance
will be a “key element” of “the 13th Five-Year Plan for the reform and development of China’s financial sector.”
The current shift toward green
finance
in developing countries can have a significant international impact.
And, indeed, international action – from knowledge sharing to the development of suitable standards and oversight – is vital to advance green
finance.
Its activities should include raising capital (equity and debt) for global education; providing investment-banking services to governments, businesses, and multilateral agencies in cooperation with local banks; and offering consulting and advisory services for public-private partnerships, privatization, decentralization, loans, and concessionary
finance
negotiations.
Within them, new businesses have relatively easy access to
finance
(domestic and foreign) and can enter or exit a wide range of industries without big hurdles.
At the sectoral level, a couple of key industries – most notably,
finance
and information technology – secured a growing share of profits.
Given the impact of the Greek election outcome on political developments in Spain, Italy, and France, where anti-austerity sentiment is similarly running high, political pressure on the Eurogroup of eurozone
finance
ministers – from both the right and the left – will increase significantly.
It can
finance
all of this with the support of Venezuela’s state oil company, implementing social policies that are misguided over the long term but seductive in the short run, especially when carried out by Cuban doctors, teachers, and instructors.
The idea is that, by monetizing the fiscal deficit, the central bank helps the government to
finance
growth-enhancing investments in, say, infrastructure, while providing the liquidity needed to counter deflationary forces.
This is not a risk, but a certainty, as historical experience with war
finance
– including, incidentally, in Japan – demonstrates only too clearly.
In the United States, the excessive printing of dollars to
finance
the Civil War contributed to high inflation.
Participants at the two events called for setting a price on carbon, phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, more partnerships with governments, and the coupling of public and private
finance
to diffuse the risks of low-carbon investments.
The OECD estimates that the flows of public and private climate
finance
reached $62 billion in 2014.
America’s current-account deficit, which was an alarming 5.8% of GDP as recently as 2006, has now shrunk to just 2.7% of GDP – a level that the US can easily
finance
from its royalty income and returns on prior foreign investments without incurring additional foreign debt.
Rather, they were the gross flows of
finance
from the US to Europe that allowed European banks to leverage their balance sheets, and the large, matching flows of money from European banks into toxic US subprime-linked securities.
Ownership of land – whether co-ownership, for a married woman, or sole ownership, for a single female head of household – not only improves economic security and productivity, but also boosts access to traditional
finance.
Every week, a preposterous coterie of European bankers and
finance
ministers drags itself from one capital to another to discuss which default/restructuring plan to adopt.
The oldest rule in personal
finance
is to avoid debt – that is, never spend more than you earn.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to
finance
trade.
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