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French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing a stronger central authority, including a potential finance ministry.
With the rise of the Tea Party, Republicans may rail against raising the debt ceiling, but they are likely to back down in the end, because, among other things, debt-funded wars – say, in Afghanistan and Iraq – are easier to defend than pay-as-you-go wars that voters must finance up front with taxes.
To finance today’s wars, by contrast, the US government has not only avoided raising taxes, but has actually cut them on an enormous scale, with the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 now extended at least through 2012.
You finance the pre-modern and the inefficient, and perhaps worse: every time you pay, you may be collaborating with political evil.
That means a constant and resolute effort to stop the caliphate’s expansion, cut off its sources of finance, deepen and expand intelligence cooperation among credible allies, end the oil-rich monarchies’ collusion with terrorist groups, and encourage reform (without engaging in grand state-building projects).
The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the annual value of open data in education, transportation, consumer products, electricity, oil and gas, health care, and consumer finance could reach $3 trillion.
A raft of open-data start-ups are now being incubated at the London-based Open Data Institute (ODI), which focuses on improving our understanding of corporate ownership, health-care delivery, energy, finance, transport, and many other areas of public interest.
Many countries require capital inflows to finance investment or official debt.
Just two years ago, the topic of drug-resistant infections would usually be met with questions like “What is AMR?” or, “Why would a finance minister take charge of a health crisis?”
Since 2008, SOEs and so-called local-government financing platforms have been using loans to fund massive fixed-asset investments, while private-sector actors have been borrowing – often from the shadow-banking sector – to finance investment in real-estate development.
Finally, and more speculatively, the United States’ effort to make finance a more efficacious foreign-policy tool could have affected its treatment of BNP.
Some students, reckoning that it is better to buy and sell than to be bought and sold, conclude that they should be trained for careers in business, finance, or possibly law.
Specializing in business, finance, or law does not really protect one from commoditization.
Achieving this kind of education probably means pursuing what one naturally finds interesting and engaging, whether that is finance or physiology.
The Commission’s 1987 report, “Our Common Future,” became a landmark document that brought sustainable development to the attention of presidents, prime ministers, and finance ministers worldwide.
This implies that the pre-crisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in excess of 20% of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms.
Speaking as someone who has witnessed this process as an insider (as a former member of the IMF’s executive board) and an outsider (in my current capacity as Mexico’s finance minister), I see three main points that merit attention.
The circumstances behind his killing remain unclear, but his death caused a government reshuffle, with finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni and foreign minister Ali al-Issawi ousted.
Moreover, the new Commissioners will include three former prime ministers, five former foreign ministers, and three former finance ministers - all heavyweight people with big political agendas at home.
Managing city assets better would help local leaders boost their economies, finance social and economic infrastructure, and develop strategies for vibrant and innovative mixed-use projects.
For many, the answer is obvious: international markets no longer want to finance the “GIPS.”
The GIPS’ own central banks started to lend newly printed money to their private banks, and this money was then used to finance the current account deficit.
Had the ECB failed to finance these deficits, the GIPS would have had a hard time finding the money to pay for their net imports.
Such a cap would not eliminate current-account deficits, but it would reduce deficits to the flow of private capital willing to finance them.
Doubts in financial markets lead to higher risk premia, which make it even more difficult to finance a government that is already facing financial problems.
But the resulting pay is not high enough to mitigate the temptation officials face to use their enormous power to profit in key sectors, such as energy, finance, and real estate.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries announced this year that they will not support international finance for coal-fired power plants in developing countries.
These countries abstained in 2010 when the World Bank helped finance South Africa’s Medupi coal-fired power plant.
As the South African finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, explained, “to sustain the growth rates we need to create jobs, we have no choice but to build new generating capacity – relying on what, for now, remains our most abundant and affordable energy source: coal.”
But perhaps the strongest message is being sent via targeted sanctions on Russia’s oil, finance, defense, and technology industries, as well as on Russian officials.
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