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At a time when the war chest is drained and the battle seemed to be drawn out longer than expected, you need public support to cough out funds and make donations to the manufacturing of arms.
Embezzeling funds from a pension fund is no big deal either.
Along with acclaimed action co-directors Ringo Lam of "Maximum Risk" and Tsui Hark of "Double Team" and "Knock Off" at the helm, Chan starred in the movie to raise funds for the fledging Hong Kong Directors Guild.
Its rise reflects the very low interest rates that have prevailed since the US Federal Reserve cut the federal funds interest rate to near zero in 2008.
First, the Fed is raising the short-term federal funds rate and projects that it will increase from a little over 2% to about 3.5% by the end of 2020.
But if a recession begins as soon as 2020, the Fed will not be in a position to reduce the federal funds rate significantly.
Indeed, the Fed now projects the federal funds rate at the end of 2020 to be less than 3.5%.
On a positive note, the Decade of Roma Inclusion, established in 2005, is receiving strong support from the structural funds administered by the European Commission and is making some inroads.
Raising funds to import solutions from abroad addresses just one part of the challenge.
As misuse and neglect causes equipment to malfunction, more funds become required or the program simply dies.
Anyone who has worked in developing countries understands that weak institutions and poor governance are often far bigger obstacles to growth than a lack of funds.
As a result, many countries have established sovereign wealth funds to invest their surpluses in international markets.
These funds’ managers rightly complain that insufficient investment opportunities exist in the region in agriculture and manufacturing.
Indeed, funds for “needy countries” may never reach the neediest of individuals, such as internally displaced or stateless persons, because no one takes responsibility for them.
For example, households and investment managers, reluctant to keep money in safe money-market funds, instead seek to invest in securities with longer maturities and higher credit risk, so long as they offer extra yield.
Interest income from these funds is currently disbursed through the M-Pesa Foundation.
The funds – modeled after similar funds in France and Spain – would be designed to cover the biggest, once-in-fifty-years catastrophes.
Sovereign-wealth funds, too, are increasingly involved in financing development.
We have seen Enron-style fraud from corporate management, Arthur Anderson-style smoke and mirrors from accountants, and now Putnam Funds-style market-timing irregularities from mutual funds.
Finally, the market-timing practices of mutual funds that have been revealed to date simply don't amount to all that much in the broader scheme of things.
(Some media accounts have made Zitzewitz's estimates appear much larger by taking them as a percent of the most vulnerable mutual funds' assets, rather than of all mutual funds assets.)
Less wealthy member countries benefited from tools like the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund, which provided considerable resources to enable them to boost their per capita income.
It would also help if creditors understood that their contributions, like their decades of support to cohesion funds, will not impoverish them (by, say, depleting their public pensions).
Likewise, there is scope for removing the antiquated practice of taxing hedge and private-equity funds’ “carried interest” at a preferential rate.
Because the state did not have enough funds to accept all 90,000 individuals who wanted to enroll, it conducted a lottery to select about 30,000 individuals who were given the opportunity to apply for Medicaid.
Disaster aid for education in such circumstances almost always flows far too slowly, because there is no central pool of funds available to be distributed when a crisis erupts.
As the death toll spirals upward and the full horror unfolds, much of the relief effort is on hold, unable to move ahead until the funds that have been promised arrive – a process that could take weeks or months.
Hong Kong ’s government, led by the HKMA, launched an unprecedented intervention, buying up local shares to “defeat” the speculators, but failed to stop the stampede by global investors, including conservative pension and mutual funds.
Meanwhile, the governor of California rejects the use of federal rescue funds to keep Mississippi’s banks afloat, while the secretary of the California Department of Finance declares that Mississippi voters must decide whether or not to keep the dollar.
Despite massive injections of funds and unprecedented security, insurgents have still managed to halt or reduce oil production and exports several times since the invasion.
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