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If one
grants
the premise that there is an insufficiency of aggregate global demand, the alleged Chinese undervaluation of the renminbi can, indeed, be seen as a beggar-thy-neighbor policy, which diverts inadequate world demand to Chinese goods at the expense of other countries.
One country’s inflow of EU money is thus another country’s outflow – and these are grants, not loans.
The first, the Food Security Act,
grants
67% of India’s population a right to 35 kilograms of rice or wheat for three rupees (less than five US cents) per kilo.
Ironically, none of these problems seems to have befallen Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, which survives largely on donor
grants
and sustainable repayments.
The Flexible Credit Line (FCL) facility
grants
immediate access to Fund resources, no questions asked.
Various forms of profit-sharing – including
grants
of options and restricted stock, annual profit-based bonuses, and employee stockownership plans – have been growing as a share of labor compensation since the 1960s.
And the federal government, for its part, uses a variety of tools to encourage innovation among state and local governments, including waivers, pay-for-performance contracts, and challenge
grants.
Indeed, thanks to ongoing
grants
and future loans from national aid agencies and multilateral lenders like the World Bank, most of the poor “debtor” countries look set to receive considerably more money than they pay back, with no end in sight.
A not-so-generous interpretation of modern aid history is that rich countries’ legislatures were too cheap to give outright
grants
to the poorest countries, and could be persuaded to help out only if they were told that the money would be repaid.
So now rich countries want to feel magnanimous for “forgiving” debts that should have been given as outright
grants
in the first place.
The Bush administration has put outright
grants
at the center of its foreign-assistance policy, a commitment that is embodied in its new aid agency, the “Millennium Challenge Account.”
Many Europeans believe that aid agencies like the World Bank will shrivel and die if left to depend on
grants
for income.
Its loans and
grants
to Africa have now surpassed those made by the World Bank.
That money could come from the $35 billion in annual official development assistance (ODA) to Africa (which totals about $50 billion) that takes the form of pure
grants.
I have long advocated shifting the Bank’s center of gravity from lending to outright grants, a policy that the Bush administration strongly endorses.
By and large, however, the poorest countries need grants, not loans that they still won’t be able to pay in 20 years.
As the Bank switches from loans to grants, it can use some of its massive retained earnings to endow its “knowledge bank” function and related technical advice.
Finally, firms with a higher CEO pay slice are more likely to provide their CEO with option
grants
that turn out to be opportunistically timed.
Such “lucky” timing is likely to reflect the use of insider information or the backdating of option
grants.
For example, my interviews with Libyan professors applying for Fulbright
grants
to study at US universities underscored how limited the linkages between American and Libyan scholars and institutions were.
First, the agreement
grants
the FARC long-term representation in Congress (though FARC members won’t be able to cast votes until 2018).
They compete for government research
grants.
While the center-left coalition, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, won a comfortable majority in the lower house – thanks to the bonus that Italian electoral law
grants
to the largest coalition – it gained too few seats in the senate to govern effectively.
Moreover, unlike Cato and Heritage, the World Bank is a public, tax-financed entity that wields vast influence around the world through its grants, loans, and policy recommendations.
While the GPE is still too dependent on the World Bank, which supervises 80% of its grants, that can be changed.
Recently, the exchange has become the prime source of financing for Brazilian companies, ahead of the state-owned National Development Bank, which
grants
loans at below-market rates.
By 2020, the Facility will unlock some $10 billion in
grants
and loans to help countries strengthen their education systems.
It would be far better if the US found ways simply to organize outright
grants
in exceptional cases like Ukraine, rather than design the international financial system around them.
Specifically, the region would benefit from
grants
to local entrepreneurs, concessional financing and loans to foreign investors, and budgetary support from the government.
The implication is that they need grants, not loans.
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