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The truth is that, thanks to extensive experience designing and implementing cost-effective aid programs, poorly used funds represent a tiny fraction of the total invested in aid.
Finally, the yield curve did not steepen sharply for the United States: federal funds rates at zero I expected, but 30-Year US Treasury bonds at a nominal rate of 2.7% I did not.
The government’s proposed 2019 budget would be 9.7% larger than in 2018, with welfare programs receiving the largest share of funds (34%).
While eliminating inefficient spending, especially inefficient tax subsidies, can generate some of these funds, more tax revenues may be needed.
Over 2007-2013, the new member states receive funds equivalent to about 20% of their GDP, while Greece and Portugal receive close to 8% and 12% of GDP, respectively.
At the country level, EU funds – if appropriately employed – are a powerful instrument for growth-enhancing reform.
Finally, the destination of EU funds, not their size, affects their capacity to deliver economic growth.
The crucial issue is how EU funds are used and the extent to which the projects they finance complement each other.
The MFF could require that unused funds (so-called “de-commitments”) be pooled to create a guarantee fund in case of sovereign default.
Finally, the European Commission should be allowed to administer funds directly in countries that are under conditionality, mainly to finance large infrastructure projects – ranging from transport to telecommunications to energy.
As for priorities, the EU has clearly indicated that Structural and Cohesion funds should be used to implement the “EU 2020” strategy, according to which member countries are asked to focus resources on a small number of high-return projects – so-called “thematic concentration.”
For example, one important suggestion is to increase the number of selectable objectives in step with each country’s allocation of EU funds.
Consider, for example, that the countries that receive the most funds relative to their GDP have the lowest regional disparities in employment rates.
Some flexibility in the use of EU funds was already introduced during the crisis, when member states were allowed to readjust their agreed Operational Programs.
Those funds were applied not just to building more schools, but also to building better schools, through investment in teachers, books, and technology.
After this period, the US abdicated its proper role as a net exporter of capital and finance, and less developed economies became net sources of investment funds.
Although the 2016 Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London garnered aid pledges totaling $12 billion, many of these funds have been severely delayed or have never materialized.
The government should gradually increase the retirement age for new workers, crack down on evasion of social-security contributions, and accept the no-deficit principle for supplementary pension funds.
Have these funds been used as effectively as possible?
Some of these funds were aimed to improve countries’ fiscal balance.
In addition to reducing debt, Chile used its additional revenues to increase the resources of two fiscal funds: when the recession began, there were more than $22 billion in assets in both funds.
Despite imprudent fiscal management, Venezuela, too, maintained considerable resources in specific funds ($11 billion at the end of 2008).
Ecuador and Colombia, by contrast, eliminated their stabilization funds in 2005 and 2008, respectively.
LONDON – Next month will mark the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, which began on August 9, 2007, when Banque Nationale de Paris announced that the value of several of its funds, containing what were supposedly the safest possible US mortgage bonds, had evaporated.
But if parties are not state-supported, they must find funds through channels that are often dubious, when not illegal.
Until then, income taxes had been used only sporadically to raise funds for wars.
And, because antibiotics generally produce low – and sometimes even negative – returns on investment for the pharmaceutical makers that develop them, many companies and venture capital funds steer clear.
Prices of both COFINA and general obligation bonds have steadily recovered, owing to a political game over disaster relief funds that has been playing out among the oversight board, the US Congress, and bondholders – a game that Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives joined a few days ago when it passed a bill to allow for the COFINA deal.
As the old saying goes, funds are fungible.
Even if all the money earmarked for disaster relief actually went where it was supposed to go, the injection of funds nevertheless frees up money elsewhere.
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