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Both instruments could be subject to conditions designed to ensure that the funds do not sustain rampant corruption, but flow instead to where they are needed most.
By contrast, financial aid to Ukraine would clearly signal that the EU will not tolerate the country’s destabilization, while providing economic stimulus in Ukraine and the entire region.Equally important, if the West’s response to Russian aggression toward Ukraine is effectively limited to economic sanctions, Putin will more easily be able to blame the West and its alleged hostility toward Russia for the collapse in ordinary Russians’ living standards, thus enabling him to double down on aggressive nationalism.Learn MoreToday, the only thing needed to convert EU funds into financial aid for Ukraine is political will.
The most immediate step should be an initiative by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to get the funds flowing with a minimum of bureaucratic delay.
They should seize this opportunity to urge Juncker to start the proceedings needed to repurpose one of the EU’s two available funds.
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.
Today, the only thing needed to convert EU funds into financial aid for Ukraine is political will.
This is apparent in the fact that, over the last 15 years, the real federal funds rate – the Fed’s benchmark policy rate, adjusted for inflation – has been in negative territory more than 60% of the time, averaging -0.6% since May 2001.
From 1990 to 2000, by contrast, the real federal funds rate averaged 2.2%.
The fact that an even larger catastrophe would have resulted had governments not been willing to draw on taxpayer funds to bail out the banks was an additional blow to those who have told us to trust the unregulated market.
As a result, a Kenyan farmer in a remote district can now obtain information about crop prices or transfer funds, without having to travel long distances and wait in lines.
The beneficial effect on the risk-return options available to investors/savers (including pension funds) will outweigh the higher cost of debt; indeed, an important subset of growth engines in the tradable sector is not dependent on low-cost debt.
Similarly, its average projection of the federal funds rate for 2015 was 1.5%.
But state-to-state loans usually include conditions that are less transparent than those attached to funds from rules-based international financial institutions.
There has been much discussion about rich countries’ commitments to increase funds, and whether governments in the developing world have used resources effectively.
If private firms, media, and civil-society organizations identify specific problems and call publicly for change, their governments will feel pressure to take the steps needed to produce accurate, unbiased data – for example, by enhancing the autonomy of national statistical offices or providing sufficient funds to hire more qualified personnel.
Finally, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks or sovereign wealth funds could take advantage of the ECB's bond-purchase program to sell increasing proportions of their German, French, or Italian debt and reinvest the proceeds in higher-yielding US Treasury securities.
The trust funds’ real promise will consist in educating citizens about investments.
Second, funds must be efficiently channeled to social expenditures.
Nigeria’s IMF-supported program, for example, embraces the Poverty Reduction Initiative, which aims to use funds productively and to ensure that the public funds for poverty reduction are accounted for in every quarter.
The NIH, which funds important advances in our understanding and treatment of diseases like Ebola, has also suffered cutbacks.
They decided that the best way to handle the panic was to raise interest rates so sharply in Asia that the outflow of funds would be reversed by short-term speculators.
The Federal funds rate in the US is practically zero, and the European Central Bank’s main refinancing rate, already at an all-time low of 2%, will likely fall further in the coming months.
This would be a particular problem for the US, where the Fed allowed the Federal funds rate to approach zero in January 2009.
This was accompanied by credit easing (CE), which took the form of central-bank purchases of private or semi-private assets – such as mortgage- and other asset-backed securities, covered bonds, corporate bonds, real-estate trust funds, and even equities via exchange-traded funds.
If Europe wants to devise its own rules for credit-rating agencies and hedge funds, it should simply go ahead.
When Greek households have to pay higher taxes, they can simply withdraw the funds from their savings accounts and continue spending much as before.
Moreover, depositors have increasingly withdrawn their funds from Greek banks and transferred the money abroad.
The cost of credit for the Greek private sector remains surprisingly low for an economy that has been totally cut off from foreign capital markets, and whose government cannot obtain private funds under any terms.
The elected officials will be denied travel permits, workers from isolated Gaza barred from entering Israel, and every effort is being made to block funds to Palestinians.
The Quartet’s special envoy, James Wolfensohn, has proposed that donors assist the Palestinian people without violating anti-terrorism laws that prohibit funds from being sent directly to Hamas.
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