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Hence, the recent evolution of Puerto Rican bond prices reflects an expectation that the additional funds will go not to Puerto Ricans still suffering from the devastating effects of Maria, but rather to the commonwealth’s creditors.
Do-No-Harm DevelopmentPARIS – International financial institutions, including the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other regional development and investment banks, have increasingly emphasized the importance of participation, good governance, and accountability in the countries where they disburse funds.
In another example, Pastor Omot Agwa was hired as a local interpreter to assist the World Bank’s independent complaint body in an investigation of allegations that the government was using World Bank funds to evict indigenous peoples forcibly from their traditional lands.
These include threats, intimidation, detention, sexual harassment, and violent attacks by governments, corporations, security forces, or other third parties with a stake in where aid funds end up.
In exchange, the international community would increase its financing over this period, from about $16 billion per year to some $90 billion, as well as provide coordination mechanisms to ensure the most efficient use of funds.
The creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, together with US President George W. Bush's recent proposal to add $10 billion in funds to fight HIV/AIDS, mean that the financial weapons needed to wage the fight against this epidemic are beginning to arrive.
The proper, efficient use of the expected influx of international funds demands a powerful political commitment from government at the highest level.
Only when public health is deemed the highest priority will such infrastructure be created (or enhanced) and funds channeled to the neediest areas.
Without such a commitment, incoming funds will be mishandled, allocated ineffectively, or remain unspent.
It would also help if those countries in a position to do so underscored their preparedness to make funds available to help build a Palestinian state and to resettle both refugees and those living in settlements that are vacated under any peace accord.
In 1999, a core inflation rate of around 2%, combined with unemployment below 5%, justified a federal funds rate of 5% (and a “normal” balance sheet).
On US agricultural subsidies, for example, anyone who has taken an impartial look knows that they harm the global poor and are a huge waste of public funds.
Last month, a coalition of unions, public pension funds, state treasurers, and others established the Investors for Opioid Accountability.
In return for offering the exchange against a haircut, the EMF would acquire the claims against the defaulting country, which would then receive any additional funds from the EMF only for specific purposes that the EMF approves.
How sovereign is a country once the hedge funds and bond traders mark it down?
What has become apparent lately is the power that boards of companies – as well as large investors, like pension and sovereign-wealth funds – have to help stop it.
Private banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and so on have limited appetite for building up liquid dollar claims on foreigners when their own liabilities – deposits, insurance claims, and pension obligations – are denominated in renminbi.
Greater pay regulation will drive the most talented away from regulated banks and towards hedge funds, private equity funds, boutique investment banks, and other unregulated investment firms.
Argentina, the international financial system’s enfant terrible , could always be relied on to produce a gimmick to spook investors – in this case a nationalization of its private pension funds.
The other half is done by public research systems using public funds.
Both countries are seeking to create a longer, more manageable repayment profile for their privately-held debt as they begin weaning themselves from dependence on official “bailout” funds provided by the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund).
Favorable borrowing costs have fueled an enormous increase in the issuance of corporate bonds, many of which are held in bond mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
These funds’ investors believe – correctly – that they have complete liquidity.
But, in that case, the mutual funds and ETFs have to sell those corporate bonds.
There are no policies to reduce risks in shadow banks, insurance companies, or mutual funds.
Some members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC, the Fed’s policymaking body) therefore fear that raising the short-term federal funds rate will trigger a substantial rise in longer-term rates, creating losses for investors and lenders, with adverse effects on the economy.
But, in the end, the FOMC members must recognize that they cannot postpone the increase in interest rates indefinitely, and that once they begin to raise the rates, they must get the real (inflation-adjusted) federal funds rate to 2% relatively quickly.
My own best guess is that they will start to raise rates in September, and that the federal funds rate will reach 3% by some point in 2017.
Disruptive and time-consuming bankruptcy proceedings could be avoided as banks often provided the necessary fresh funds to support corporate restructuring.
Big German corporations no longer depend exclusively on banks for their finance but, increasingly, are tapping international capital markets directly, so as to raise funds through commercial paper, bond, or equity issues.
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