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Cutting the post-2013 EU budget, thus reducing the funds allocated for cohesion policy, is not the answer.
To this end, the Commission must improve oversight of the expenditure (and non-expenditure) of EU funds, and civil-society groups must learn how to lobby, rather than simply air grievances.
In the Fed’s “Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” Fed Chair Janet Yellen forecast “gradual increases in the federal funds rate.”
It refers to how a bank (or other firm) finances its activities, not to how it uses the funds that it has available.
And with prospects for substantial inflows of foreign capital dimming, there is little likelihood of an investment rebound.Even before Trump’s election, foreign investors approached Iran cautiously, signing projects but holding back on actually committing funds.
Even before Trump’s election, foreign investors approached Iran cautiously, signing projects but holding back on actually committing funds.
To strike an effective balance, the action plan proposes two publicly owned investment funds – one raising money from institutional investors, and the other from individuals.
The public projects financed by the funds would provide sufficient efficiency gains to attract private financing.
While some of these funds will come from public budgets, the vast majority will have to be provided by the private sector.
It matters little that the Fed could have gone further and cut the federal funds rate as well as the discount rate at its emergency meeting – indeed, that may have to be done.
In Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi sought to take advantage of post-Brexit instability to use public funds to recapitalize Italy’s zombie banks, without imposing losses on their creditors, thereby bypassing the EU’s new “bail-in” rules for banks.
Even when investors accept the intellectual case for much higher bond yields, regulatory impositions on banks and pension funds, together with quantitative easing in Japan and Europe and other forms of financial repression, will ensure continuing demand for government bonds at prices far above any reasonable estimate of fundamental values.
In response to dwindling donor funds, the Ghanaian government brought the country’s private-sector leaders together to launch the Ghana Malaria Foundation, which currently is working to fill urgent funding gaps, but will eventually help lead a sustainable, domestic effort to eliminate malaria from the country.
The US Chamber of Commerce opposes all such proposed rules as “politically motivated,” because the pressure to require disclosure of election-related corporate spending does not come from institutional investors, but from government pension funds controlled by elected officials.
Cleverly, Norway pays out the funds to Brazil only upon proven success in avoiding deforestation (compared with an agreed baseline).
The Spanish Government rightly proposed that true solutions to poverty require simultaneous investments in health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure, and then the Spanish put up the funds to help make that integrated vision a practical reality.
Scraping together insufficient funds year after year won’t do the job.
In these circumstances, it would be more surprising if depositors were not rushing to pull their funds out of Greek banks.
Though potential sources for climate-friendly development financing now include pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds, what is often missing are mechanisms to ensure that investments are channeled into well-targeted and effective projects.
And in September, three major pension funds from North America and Europe announced plans to increase their holdings in low-carbon investments by more than $31 billion by 2020.
Increased policy credibility will boost inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), while EU structural funds will support further institution building, infrastructure investment, and environmental protection.
Empirical research also confirms the positive impact of EU structural funds on growth.
This includes increasing official development aid to the least-developed countries, thereby supporting poverty-reduction efforts and accelerating progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and raising their contribution to global funds to address climate change and protect global commons.
At the least, Blair must press for a radical increase in funds provided by the outside world to the Palestinian government as well as to the 1.4 million Palestinians trapped in Hamas-run Gaza.
So far America has pledged $40 million in humanitarian funds for Gaza (just $30 a person), and about $86 million in security training money for the West Bank.
But total funds pledged by all sources are only a small fraction of what is urgently needed.
Along with a major increase in US funds, the EU needs to increase its aid dramatically.
That means following the money that funds the pseudo-science of delay, and exposing the co-opted scholars who feed false images of debate to the public.
In some countries, the threat of bank recapitalization with public funds has resulted in a drop in market confidence and a huge rise in interest rates.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States was a wise creditor, giving Germany new funds under the Marshall Plan, followed by debt relief in 1953.
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