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Though Juppé, like Sarkozy, is no stranger to scandal – he was temporarily barred from public office for abuse of public funds during Chirac’s tenure as mayor of Paris – his age is reassuring to French voters, who consider him wiser and mellower now (he was also widely viewed as Chirac’s scapegoat).
And then there are the numbers that sound very large and are hard to interpret: $300 trillion in “derivative” securities; $3 trillion managed by 12,000 global “hedge funds”; $1.2 trillion a year in “private equity.”
The idea here is to demonstrate to the electorate that the government can combine capitulation to the troika with its own agenda of reforms, comprising efficiency gains and an assault on the oligarchy that may liberate funds for the purpose of lessening austerity’s impact on weaker Greeks.
For its part, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has engaged in cautious monetary loosening, which includes freeing up more funds for lending by banks that allocate a certain proportion of their total loan portfolio to SMEs.
The PBOC, through its “pledged supplementary lending” program, has also started lending directly to banks that have promised to use the funds for social housing construction.
And financial institutions, especially banks, have been using a substantial portion of their funds for financial arbitrage.
Increases in the cost of funds’ sources increase the costs of the funds’ uses – that is, credit to enterprises.
The Fund’s annual budget is only €12 million ($16.3 million), of which my foundations cover nearly half, and we find it difficult to secure additional funds.
The European Commission has played a very helpful role through its structural funds, which cover up to 80% of the additional costs involved in integrating the Roma.
Time-bound subsidy schemes, public venture funds, and export subsidization are some of the ways in which this approach can be implemented, but there are many others.
By contrast, most public services have no prices, there is not supposed to be a profit motive in their provision, and capital markets are not supposed to choose what to fund: the money funds whatever is in the budget.
It then proceeds to allocate funds to all existing commitments and entitlement programs.
The idea is to assign a portion of the budget, say 3-5%, to a central pool of funds to be requested by one ministry but to be executed by another, as if one was buying services from the other.
The two that worry me the most are the possibility that we will be unable to raise the funds needed to pay for health and development projects, and that we will fail to align around clear goals to help the poorest.
It funds innovation in the creation of new tools and services, and in their delivery.
The immediate upshot is a substantial divergence in firms’ cost of funds, with many small and medium-size enterprises even losing access to credit completely.
As a result, ample reserve funds have been created on the banks’ balance sheets and return on equity has remained high.
In each of those countries, the level of national saving exceeds domestic investment, leaving output to be exported and funds to be loaned abroad.
For example, institutional investors, especially insurance companies and pension funds, have suffered badly.
Rather than simply handing money from one state to another, as the world has done for the last 60 years, development funds must be used to mobilize the private sector – the real engine of economic growth and development.
The model is straightforward: first, blend public, private, and charitable contributions; second, invest the funds under rigorous private-sector standards, rather than entrusting them to profligate public-sector actors who often treat donor money with contempt.
Even more important was a decision, taken in the hope of choking off funds to extremist groups, to require all expatriate Pakistani earnings to be remitted through official banking channels.
The Challenge of Islamic FinanceHONG KONG – With Britain now in talks to sell part of the government’s 82% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth funds, the Islamic world’s growing financial clout is once again on display.
The negotiation of each case, including the return of stolen funds, should be carried out discreetly, potentially in cooperation with religious institutions.
International assistance would be needed, for example, to help disarm the population (especially the paramilitary colectivos), professionalize the military and police forces, reform the judiciary, manage the transitional justice program, recover stolen funds, and rebuild the health system.
He can promise to invest state funds in their run-down communities.
For 35 years, I have put my spare savings into Vanguard index funds, and done very well with it.
But in giving general advice to others, I am a true believer…diversify in Vanguard index funds and leave it alone.
The term “shadow banking” gained prominence during the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States to account for non-bank assets in the capital market, such as money-market funds, asset-backed securities, and leveraged derivative products, usually funded by investment banks and large institutional investors.
One must hope that the funds raised will be put to good use, and that repayments will not require major sacrifices, as there is currently no agreed mechanism to restructure, let alone cancel, the new debts.
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