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Both companies knew that this payment method, through an account created by J.P. Morgan in London, was in breach of the Nigerian constitution, and that the funds would end up in private hands.
Theoretically, funds from privatization in Kosovo should go to Serbia.
In Latvia, an artificial-intelligence researcher in the University of Latvia's computer science department who earlier this year leaked confidential records on the income of bank managers has been praised as a modern “Robin Hood,” because otherwise the public would not have known how much some people were continuing to be paid while their banks were being bailed out with public funds.
But since when does one pay taxes on embezzled funds?
Otherwise, their firms would have been able to tap the trillions of dollars now sitting on the sidelines, held by sovereign wealth funds, private equity groups, hedge funds, and others.
The government may also need to consider injecting funds more directly into the mortgage sector while the private sector reconstitutes itself.
The chances for increased scale and competitiveness of key financial sectors, such as insurance, pension funds, and equity markets, will be real.
When there is no yield in fixed income, even the most conservative pension funds pile into risk assets, driving prices higher and higher.
Rather than scraping together insufficient funds year after year, it is time to engage in “surge funding.”
Moreover, the risks to pension funds may correlate with risks to other economic factors affecting specific groups of workers.
Germany needs both China’s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.
But not all those who need help are coming to get it, so Save the Children funds outreach workers to encourage families to use the services.
In Qatar, there is no religious police enforcing morality, even if Qatari clerics openly raise funds for militant causes overseas.
Moreover, Qatar has used its leverage over the Islamists that it funds to help secure the release of Western hostages.
In other words, Qatar is an important US ally, a supplier of weapons and funds to Islamists, and a peace broker all at the same time.
Add to that its position as the world’s largest supplier of liquefied natural gas and the holder of one of its largest sovereign-wealth funds, and it becomes clear that Qatar has plenty of room to maneuver – as well as considerable international clout.
Both Qatar and Saudi Arabia generously supplied weapons and funds to Sunni extremists in Syria, opening the door for the emergence of the Islamic State.
Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them.
Through regulation and administrative directives, banks, insurance companies, and pension funds are being forced to hold much higher shares of government debt than they might voluntarily choose to do.
The July summit will seek to elicit from the world’s governments a commitment to allocate more funds to social needs.
Third, the EU needs to find sufficient funds to finance a comprehensive migration policy.
Instead of using development funds to serve its own needs, the EU should offer a genuine grand bargain focused on the needs of recipient countries.
It thus makes sense for the new coast guard, backed by EU funds, to start there.
And it is not only rich countries that have embraced this goal: from Thailand to Costa Rica to Rwanda, countries with mixed health systems and limited resources have dedicated funds and political capital to making universal health care a reality.
On the contrary, by discouraging trading in securities, it would encourage investors to shift their funds into bank accounts and certificates of deposit.
Financial repression occurs when governments take measures to channel to themselves funds that, in a deregulated market, would go elsewhere.
And, in the United States, where inflation exceeds 2%, the Federal Reserve’s benchmark federal funds rate remains at an historic low of 0-0.25%.
In addition, in many countries, including France, Ireland, and Portugal, governments have raided pension funds in order to finance their budget deficits.
The UK is poised to take similar action, “allowing” local government pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects.
It would be absurd if Ukraine were to slide into a financial crisis because the EU could not agree on how to raise the funds to prevent it.The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
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