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They will also facilitate cooperation with international organizations and development finance institutions, which can provide additional funds, while helping countries to upgrade their productive capacity.
By definition these funds now go mainly to the poorer parts of the EU.
He accused entrepreneurs who outsource production to low-wage countries of showing excessive greed and lack of social responsibility, and he compared the managers of international equity funds to a plague of locusts that occupy companies, exploit them, and move on after their destructive work is done.
International equity funds stepped in, providing companies with urgently needed liquidity while disentangling the traditional ownership network.
Although the Fed traditionally controlled only the short-term federal funds rate, investors’ response to a change in that rate depended on their expectation of how long the rate change would last.
During the period of monetary easing that followed the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed cut the federal funds rate to just 0.15% and declared that it would remain low for a long period of time.
That doubling of the federal funds rate will pull up the long-term bond rate.
Those in favor of a policy tightening would also note that low rates are problematic for savers, insurance companies, and pension funds, whose portfolios often include few equities.
Proponents of helicopter money – directly crediting citizens with central bank funds, or crediting national treasuries to finance infrastructure and other demand-generating activities – rightly argue that it has the advantage of putting money directly into the hands of those who will spend it.
With mobile phones, farmers can quickly find information ranging from seed prices to weather patterns, and have immediate access to the funds they need to complete transactions.
During the 30 months he ruled his country, from mid-1998 to the start of 2001, Estrada accepted payoffs from gambling lords and orchestrated (with social security funds) sales of stocks, channeling much of the profits into his personal aliased account.
The International Monetary Fund could provide these funds, as it did previously, with the EU promising to match the IMF’s contribution.
The world’s 190-plus states now co-exist with a larger number of powerful non-sovereign and at least partly (and often largely) independent actors, ranging from corporations to non-government organizations (NGO’s), from terrorist groups to drug cartels, from regional and global institutions to banks and private equity funds.
There are health-care companies that might bite, hedge funds looking for large-scale projects, and so-called social-impact bonds.
The money may be paid by employers, private insurers, or government health-care funds (the trickiest source).
But this situation cannot last forever; if the flow of funds slows, or alternative, higher-yielding assets become available, demand for government bonds could drop markedly.
The court ruled that Parliament had failed to hold the president accountable in a scandal concerning diverted state funds.
It is not only the lack of funding that is raising alarms; so are restrictions on how available funds can be used.
A funder may, for example, allow the renovation of an existing lab but not the construction of a new one; or funds may support the purchase of a diagnostic machine but not the training of those required to operate it.
Likewise, whereas welcoming refugees requires an initial investment of public funds, it can pay dividends as soon as the newcomers start working.
We must end the vicious circle whereby the use of taxpayers’ funds – more than €4.5 trillion ($5.7 trillion) so far – to rescue banks weakens governments’ budgets, while increasingly risk-averse banks stop lending to businesses that need funds, undermining the economy further.
A company that develops a product would earn a share of reward money based on its share of the health improvements achieved by all the products competing for the available funds.
One idea is debt-based funds offering bonds with more predictable returns based on revenue from new products.
These funds could be structured to distribute risk among a variety of projects or sectors, which might make them more attractive to investors who avoid high-stakes venture financing.
The French have always been less likely to go into debt – when they pay with plastic, they tend to use debit cards, drawing on funds they already have, rather than credit cards.
Private investors are then granted significant tax incentives to reinvest their unrealized capital gains into OZs through “Opportunity Funds.”
These include a temporary tax deferral on unrealized capital gains; a step-up in basis on the capital gains earned and reinvested in such funds; and a permanent exclusion from taxes on capital gains earned on fund investments held for ten years or more.
In PFS contracts, a government raises private funds from investors and uses these funds to pay external organizations (often non-profits) to provide essential social services.
SIPPRA requires that contracts be awarded on a competitive basis, and that applicants supply detailed outcome targets, cost-benefit projections, and their own matching funds; but it does not specify where funds should be invested.
Mutual and other private-sector funds require minimum terms for investments, and such mandatory lock-up periods should be applied to capital inflows as well.
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