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It is no secret that the US and Europe, combined, spend more than $250 billion of public funds annually on R&D to maintain their leading positions.
But the main reason why Chinese households save so much of their relatively low salaries is to ensure that they have the funds to meet high medical costs if a family member requires surgery or other inpatient care.
So households accumulate large amounts of cash as a hedge against the possibility that those funds will be needed some day for hospital care.
The Chinese government recently modified the tax law to exclude employers’ contributions to employee pension plans from taxable income and to allow the funds in those plans to accumulate tax-free.
Steps like fair, competitive, and transparent public-sector contracting procedures, and civil service, rather than political control over allocation of government advertising funds would go a long way, especially combined with good reporting, to protect the media against officials’ persistent temptation to control what the public may know.
Those deficits must be financed by net inflows of funds from other countries.
In partnership with the World Bank, the WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it has used innovative financing tools to raise funds for global immunization programs, while working with industry to lower the prices of vaccines.
Republican lawmakers are discussing how to bind the Fed to more scripted policy rules to manage inflation (using a formula known as the Taylor rule, which predetermines changes in the federal funds rate in relation to inflation and an output gap).
I heard the usual suspects – including a former treasury secretary who had been particularly vociferous in such admonishments during the East Asia crisis – bang on about the need for transparency at sovereign wealth funds (though not at American or European hedge funds).
That means lower loan-to-value ratios, stricter mortgage-underwriting standards, limits on second-home financing, higher counter-cyclical capital buffers for mortgage lending, higher permanent capital charges for mortgages, and restrictions on the use of pension funds for down payments on home purchases.
Every government has limited funds, but Haiti has an annual budget of just $2 billion, with foreign donors allocating another $1 billion.
If successful, a second phase of reform would provide limited investment funds for continued improvement in service delivery and financial efficiency.
The German operations naturally generate a surplus of funds (given that savings in Germany far exceed investment on average).
The parent bank would like to use these funds to reinforce the group’s liquidity.
But the German supervisory authorities consider Italy at risk and thus oppose any transfer of funds there.
And there is dissatisfaction not just from borrowers, but also from potential suppliers of funds.
The sources of liquid funds today are in Asia and the Middle East, but why should these countries contribute money to organizations in which their voice is limited and which have often pushed policies that are antithetical to their values and beliefs?
If this could be done quickly (which I think it could), such facilities could be an important channel for disbursing funds.
Bureaucrats must not be allowed to spend the huge donations collected and state relief funds allotted in an arbitrary manner.
We are appealing to donors around the world to help us reach $2 billion in annual funds by 2020.
The PPP bandwagon has three essential components: an explosion in infrastructure finance (backed by pension and other large funds); the creation of “pipelines” of lucrative mega-PPP projects to exploit countries’ raw materials; and the dismantling of environmental and social safeguards.
Its new Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) will mobilize global pension and sovereign wealth funds to invest in infrastructure as a specific asset class.
Many people deny that the Ebola virus exists at all, claiming that their governments have invented it to raise additional funds – which they will never see – from the international community.
Because the current-account surplus is denominated in foreign currencies, China must use these funds to invest abroad, primarily by purchasing government bonds issued by the United States and European countries.
Even staid pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have increased their allocations to emerging-market assets.
These dilemmas can be finessed by giving both surveillance responsibilities and the actual power to disburse funds to an independent board insulated from national politics.
And they could demand policy adjustments as a condition for disbursing funds.
Over the next several years, as the traded or tradable share of the state-owned sector’s market capitalization increased from today’s low base of 10-15%, more institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies, would become involved in Chinese equity trading, which is currently dominated by retail investors.
With public entities like the social security system and sovereign-wealth funds holding more diversified asset portfolios, incentives would be substantially reduced for market intervention favoring incumbents in which the state owned a large share.
At a time when the major infrastructure companies of the US, Europe, and Japan will have serious excess capacity, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the US Export-Import Bank, the African Development Bank, and other public investment funds should be financing large-scale infrastructure spending in Africa, to build roads, power plants, ports, and telecommunications systems.
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