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On the other hand, when the foreign assets of the country are held not by households, but by institutions, such as pension funds, they can be identified and taxed.
Our analysis of investment deals over the past 18 months shows that public-private partnerships increasingly rely on capital markets to source funds, even as banks rein in lending in order to comply with the regulatory provisions set out by the Third Basel Accord.
Most funds have targeted existing infrastructure – investments that are considered relatively safe, because they entail little or no construction risk and have demonstrated their potential to generate stable cash revenues.
Risk would be further mitigated through the participation of large, influential investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and possibly international financial institutions.
The private sector would bring in infrastructure investment expertise, while sovereign funds and international financial institutions would provide the bulk of the capital and stability.
For projects judged to be secure, the platform could act as a catalyst for long-term investments typical of institutional investors and pension funds.
Indeed, because German funds were indispensable in bailing out the eurozone’s deeply stressed periphery, the country became central to all efforts to address the crisis.
Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international competitiveness.
Convincing foreign direct investors that India is a reliable destination will increase the inflow of long-term funds.
Finally, a remarkable plan to enroll every Indian adult in a program using fingerprint identification as a substitute for bank debit cards will allow more efficient distribution of funds to poor villagers and the urban poor.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has said that he decided to purchase the islands for the Japanese central government to prevent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara from purchasing them with municipal funds.
If those funds are to support effective treatments, they should be channeled into further clinical trials, including of stem cells and gene therapies.
Organizations that have long combined PEPFAR aid with other funds to provide comprehensive reproductive health care to women living with HIV, and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, will now be placed in an untenable position.
It has often joined with the IMF in strong-arming countries into accepting this “advice”: unless they do, they will not only be cut off by the IMF and the World Bank, but also by other donors, and capital markets will be discouraged from providing funds.
Ironically, Susan Mubarak, says the report, urged the passage of a 1992 law that permitted Egyptian non-governmental organizations to receive foreign funds – a provision used by some opposition groups – in order to provide channels for the NGO’s she runs.
The report maintains that these funds are often used to participate in illegal financial transactions, arms’ dealing, and money laundering.
The same lack of security applies to delivering aid: on a recent visit to North Somalia to assess humanitarian needs, a team from the International Rescue Committee of which I was a part spent more time, effort, and funds on security issues than on inspecting wells and evaluating the need for latrines, although the lack of water and sanitation is acute.
Where exactly past funds have gone is now the subject of searching questions by Sebastian Leape, a volunteer who spent recent weeks in the camp.
Equity holdings are somewhat more concentrated, but many middle class Americans have still benefited indirectly through their pension funds.
Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms – such as hedge funds – will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.
Hedge funds and other “non-commercial” speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market, compared to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has called for merging these two phases to accelerate progress, which would require substantial funds to secure and deploy the additional UN peacekeepers.
In the middle of that decade, the US Federal Reserve began gradually tightening its policy – much as it is doing today – with the federal funds rate peaking in 1995.
After all, Argentina’s external debt was also considered relatively low until the peso’s recent sharp depreciation, which spurred the government to request funds from the IMF.
Neither the Cypriot government nor European taxpayers will put any additional funds into these banks.
Pension funds, mutual funds, and investment banks are all long in the stock market.
Many long-term investors, like insurance companies and pension funds, have no alternative, as they are required to hold safer bonds.
Controversial “sovereign wealth funds,” which invest funds for governments in the Middle East, Asia, Russia, and elsewhere, are just one manifestation of the search for alternatives to low-yielding, rapidly depreciating, dollar bonds.
This can be done by putting these assets into national wealth funds and distributing the funds’ shares to citizens at no cost.
This generation has an opportunity to realize the promise of a quality education for all, but we must marshal the funds needed to provide a classroom seat to every child.
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