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Clearly, strapped treasuries will have difficulty providing funds.
In a nod to the importance of the councils to realizing change at the most local level, the World Bank and its partners have adopted a highly innovative program that channels rural development aid through the councils, which have been empowered to decide how the funds will be spent.
Today’s financial markets are dominated by non-bank institutions – investment banks, money market funds, hedge funds, mortgage lenders that do not accept deposits, so-called “structured investment vehicles,” and even states and local government investment funds – that have no direct or indirect access to the liquidity support of central banks.
So the risk of something equivalent to a bank run for non-bank financial institutions, owing to their short-term liabilities and longer-term and illiquid assets, is rising – as recent runs on some banks (Northern Rock), money market funds, state investment funds, distressed hedge funds suggests.
There is little chance that banks will re-lend to these non-banks the funds they borrowed from central banks, given these banks’ own severe liquidity problems and mistrust of non-bank counterparties.
For example, in 2005 alone, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) unearthed irregularities involving misused funds of RMB767.1 billion ($93.7 billion).
When allocating funds in the 2014-2020 European budget, EU governments wisely decided to increase funding for education and research – the only areas in which they did so.
On bank re-capitalizations, some countries adopted the more punitive approach of quasi-nationalization, while others lent public bailout funds on very advantageous terms, linking re-capitalization to the development of credit or the restriction of dividends.
After all, having a paper published in a major journal can help a company seeking funds to support product development and boost the value of its stock.
A European DIF would address the next crisis, but not this one, though a European RA could start functioning with funds from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
Moreover, the international economic crisis and tight energy-supplies have taken a toll on confidence, as have tensions over the nationalization of pension funds and conflicts with soy producers, who oppose an increase in their already high taxes.
But where should the funds needed to pay for this huge investment come from?
Finding the funds to address the crisis is proving to be a challenge.
As a perpetual overdraft drawn from the Bundesbank, this money was not unlike the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights, except that there is much more of it – a sum greater than all of the funds IMF countries are willing to loan to one another.
As a result, enormous resources – both funds and officials’ time – were invested in youth movements created by Kremlin puppeteers, with two aims: control street political activity and prepare brigades for a future struggle – which might include ballot rigging – against political opponents.
Several months later, only 4%-6% of the funds have been spent, and the federal government is brow-beating state governments – for example, demanding that California rescind a small pay cut for some unionized workers or lose $7 billion in stimulus funds.
The Federal Reserve lowered its target federal funds rate to zero before Obama was inaugurated, and initiated many programs to try to revive credit markets, with mixed results (the commercial paper facility has helped, whereas others seem to have gotten off to less sanguine starts).
His call for immense deficits even once the economy is back to normal, funds are returned from the financial bailouts, and the US is out of Iraq – is simply irresponsible.
Economists employed by banks, hedge funds, and other businesses were expected to provide a short-term “view” for their employers and clients; and to dispense their “wisdom” to the general public through interviews and media appearances.
The necessity of a banking union is now more generally accepted, and there is a move to augment the European budget with funds that could be deployed with policy or project conditionality, in addition to ESM resources.
The ESM, supported by the ECB, could become a European version of the International Monetary Fund, and the new funds in the European budget could become, with support from the European Investment Bank, Europe’s World Bank.
Japan’s management of public funds – such as the Government Pension Investment Fund, which now holds about $1.2 trillion – will also undergo far-reaching change.
We will press ahead with reforms, including a review of the GPIF’s portfolio, to ensure that public funds contribute to growth-nurturing investments.
In response, the US and other rich countries should move this year to create the GFE, with the needed funds shifted from today’s military spending.
Some critics of aid argue that funds for education will simply be wasted.
Matching funds flow from the federal government to state and local governments by formulae delineating the shared responsibilities.
According to the IMF, “the crisis did not directly affect the Lebanese economy, the banks are solid and the funds are flowing in.”
The issue is not so much where the funds will come from as the amount itself.
Moreover, although the World Bank accepted the country’s reconstruction program – called “Horizon 2000” – the money for it, from the European Investment Bank and Arab funds, has barely trickled in.
Poland and other countries will accept restrictions on their citizens’ mobility only if offered additional structural funds and stronger security cooperation.
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