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It was easier, moreover, to explain how a central bank’s policy
instruments
were linked to its politically mandated targets.
Second, the correlations between economic growth and financial deepening on which I relied do indeed vanish when countries’ financial systems move beyond banks, electronic funds transfer, and bond markets to more sophisticated
instruments.
The world is divided into nation-states, each controlling many of the
instruments
of public policy.
The American model failed because banks proved to be highly vulnerable to panic once it became clear that sophisticated new financial
instruments
had formed a haystack spiked with sharp, dangerous, and indigestible losses.
To be sure, not all recent referendums have been
instruments
of dictatorial power.
Theoretically, homeowners can use these new
instruments
to protect themselves against their home losing value.
But these
instruments
are rather sophisticated--too sophisticated, in fact, for most homeowners to embrace.
In recent years, some of those drawn to Islamist-inspired extremism have carried out attacks with rudimentary instruments, from cars and delivery trucks to kitchen knives.
But they cannot move from a quartet to a philharmonic orchestra in one fell swoop, because it would require too many missing
instruments
– and, more important, too many musicians who know how to play them.
Many of the
instruments
for greater integration already exist.
Duterte is riding high right now, but there are
instruments
available to hold him accountable, such as the International Criminal Court, to which the Philippines became a party in 2011.
A default creates ripple effects throughout the financial system, because all debt
instruments
of a defaulting country become, at least upon impact, worthless and illiquid.
Regardless of longstanding disagreements over how cross-border freshwater resources should be allocated and managed, and understandable preferences by governments and water professionals to rely on basin agreements rather than on international legal instruments, that half-century wait can be explained only by a lack of political leadership.
What instruments, including financial, will the convention provide to them?
Several legal
instruments
can be implemented jointly and synergistically: the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to name just a few.
But 2.5 billion people worldwide still lack access to formal banking services, credit facilities, or savings
instruments.
Regulators and local private institutions can collaborate to create safe and accessible banking and credit
instruments.
Regional administrations also possess their own
instruments
of obstruction, including propaganda outlets in the regional media, as well as the ability to manipulate ballot papers.
The Marshall Plan and NATO were crucial
instruments
of economic and military power, but popular culture reinforced their effect.
And it paid tribute to the ability of US markets and financial firms to create innovative
instruments
to “attract and sustain high levels of capital inflows.”
And, second, the IMF – with or without US leadership – must strengthen its
instruments
and policies to address future financial crises in emerging markets.
Under QE, the Federal Reserve buys – and announces that it will buy – assets; the only difference is that these assets are longer-maturity US government debt
instruments
and mortgage-backed securities of various kinds, all denominated in US dollars.
But banks are widely reported to be devising new
instruments
to enable their clients to avoid the tax.
National governments introduce efficiency standards, taxes, and other policy
instruments
to improve the environmental performance of buildings, vehicles, and transport fuels.
A major weakness of EU foreign policy is its lack of versatile
instruments
for allocating financial aid to neighboring countries.
It would be absurd if Ukraine were to slide into a financial crisis because the EU could not agree on how to raise the funds to prevent it.The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two
instruments
for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
Both
instruments
could be subject to conditions designed to ensure that the funds do not sustain rampant corruption, but flow instead to where they are needed most.
The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two
instruments
for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
The European Commission, too, has responded, with finance for food security coming via a number of
instruments.
Chinese reserves invested in these conservative financial
instruments
are relatively safe, but they yield little return.
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