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The promise of funds to fight poppy production galvanized the American Embassy in Islamabad into action.
These NGOs, who flourished during the fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, had seen their funding dry up after Russia’s withdrawal, so funds for fighting poppy seemed a gift from heaven.
Fiscal transfers, whereby eurozone countries commit to provide funds to their distressed counterparts, could also work.
The distribution of funds across countries could be linked to metrics like the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index.
Significant funds have been collected in the name of fighting corruption worldwide.
In a world hungry for attractive investment returns, a prospective Trump boom has drawn funds to Wall Street, in turn increasing demand for the dollar.
An impaired banking system, it is argued, starves businesses, particularly small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), of the funds they need to expand.
The heart of any economy is the mechanism by which funds are channeled from savers to investors.
Lower interest rates can thus lead to lower consumption in surplus countries, thereby increasing the supply of loanable funds.
But higher risk premia elsewhere force the rest of the eurozone to cut spending, thus reducing their demand for these funds.
A new institutional arrangement might entail the creation of a set of trust funds - say, for education or health, or the environment - with competition among countries for projects helping to promote these objectives.
What makes the global greenback proposal attractive is that it provides the funds poor countries need while contributing to global economic growth, stability, and equity.
Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, proclaimed a “hard power budget” as he slashed funds for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development by 30%.
Finally, Macri’s government reached a deal with the so-called vulture funds and other holdout creditors that for more than a decade had blocked the country from accessing international credit markets.
The deal with the vulture funds was supposed to reduce the cost of financing and boost investor confidence, thereby attracting inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI).
They feed on their own atrocities or on those of their opponents to win support through fear rather than conviction – using videos to raise funds and recruit new members.
There is also evidence to support that proposition from the observable fact that rewards in the less regulated parts of the asset management sector- hedge funds etc- are typically higher than in Security and Exchange Commission regulated competitors.
So the Taliban are obtaining ample funds from the heroin trade – easily Afghanistan’s largest single source of foreign earnings.
However, only 26% of the funds needed to support Syria’s neighbors have been pledged, resulting in a patchwork of short-term aid.
In 2013, once that tranche of funds had been transferred by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the eurozone’s bailout fund, to its Greek franchise, the Hellenic Financial Stability Facility, the HFSF pumped approximately €40 billion into the four “systemic” banks in exchange for non-voting shares.
Sensing potential gains at taxpayers’ expense, foreign hedge funds rushed in to take advantage.
The Troika celebrated the hedge funds’ interest as evidence that its bank bailout had inspired private-sector confidence.
Serious investors understood that the banks remained in serious trouble, despite the large injection of public funds.
New loans should be secured only after Greece’s debt had been rendered viable, and no new public funds should be injected into the commercial banks unless and until a special-purpose institution – a “bad bank” – was established to deal with their NPLs.
As a result, despite capital injections of approximately €47 billion (€41 billion in 2013 and another €6 billion in 2015), the taxpayer’s equity share dropped from more than 65% to less than 26%, while hedge funds and foreign investors (for example, John Paulson, Brookfield, Fairfax, Wellington, and Highfields) grabbed 74% of the banks’ equity for a mere €5.1 billion investment.
Although hedge funds had lost money since 2013, the opportunity to taking over Greece’s entire banking system for such a paltry sum proved irresistibly tempting.
In the end, the Fund felt compelled to defer to the EU’s opposition to devaluation, because it contributed only 20% of the funds.
If equal opportunity for all is what is desired, a situation must be created whereby talented students from poor families receive, through stipends and tuition exemptions, a truly free education, including some funds for books and accommodation, while less talented students from well-to-do families pay the full cost of their studies.
And the funds that urban workers send to relatives who remain in the agricultural sector have helped to raise their standard of living as well.
And a country with a current-account surplus has the funds to lend and invest in the rest of the world, while a country with a current-account deficit must finance its external gap by borrowing from the rest of the world.
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