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And this time, the financial mechanisms involved are not highly complex structured financial products, but one of the oldest financial
instruments
in the world: government bonds.
American mortgages were no longer held at the local bank, but had been repackaged in esoteric financial
instruments
and sold around the world; likewise, Greek government debt is in large part owed to foreigners.
Banks know (or believe) that if an SOE or LGFV faces bankruptcy, the government will step in with favorable policies and subsidies, tax cuts, and low-cost financing
instruments.
What is really needed, however, is action to enhance human capital; to adapt and improve income-redistribution instruments; and to promote equality in market incomes, including by boosting workers’ bargaining power.
Lacking other
instruments
with which to address these problems, the pressure for a protectionist response is growing.
The communications industry is like a standing army - one that, like every standing army, abhors idleness, and wishes to use its
instruments.
Whatever else the
instruments
of communication have achieved, they have not made good the loss of the great intermediary institutions that once served to connect people and government - the voluntary associations so much praised by Alexis de Tocqueville, trade unions, and the political parties themselves, with all their local activity and strength.
For even as they deliver information, they also seek to glean it from the public, through polling, focus groups, and all the other
instruments
of market research and public opinion research.
Consider the movie director who submits his film to the verdict of an audience of carefully selected target viewers who register their reactions through
instruments
on the arms of their chairs.
The
instruments
of publicity on the one hand and of market and opinion research on the other are today the high cards in the games whose winnings are wealth (for example, market-share) and high station (for example, elected office.)
The
instruments
that sustained the world order – multilateralism, free trade, long-held alliances, and even the occasional unilateral policing by the US – remain.
Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP’s main
instruments
so that a new policy formula can be introduced.
When the United Nations Secretary-General’s advisory group investigated how to raise money to pay for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, its members singled out
instruments
that address international aviation and shipping emissions as one of the most productive methods.
The question is whether it is realistic to hope for success unless the government resorts to far more blunt
instruments
than it currently seems prepared to wield.
After the Beslan tragedy, Putin offered an exotic explanation of terrorism: the terrorists, he claimed, are
instruments
in the hands of those who still fear Russia as a nuclear power.
Economic globalization has blunted the
instruments
of national economic policy and weakened the traditional mechanisms of transfers and redistribution that strengthened social inclusion.
Smart policy can help us to overcome short-run constraints, deeply entrenched behaviors, and social norms, and to develop innovative financing
instruments
that change incentives.
The sector’s most advanced machines, from ultra-high-resolution imaging
instruments
to surgical robots, are still fully controlled by humans.
Although the German government has been adamant that it is not a German court’s role to rule on the legality of ECB instruments, markets have taken note.
His three main policy
instruments
toward the post-Soviet states are the customs union implied by his proposed “Eurasian Union,” Gazprom, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Meanwhile, Gazprom, one of Russia’s key foreign-policy instruments, is probably the world’s most mismanaged corporation.
But the same was true during the Cold War, and the two sides made progress by using arms-control
instruments
to manage their relationship and mitigate the risk of war.
Of course, the crisis does highlight the need to strengthen the EU’s institutions and
instruments
for common action and coordination.
The rise of Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon as
instruments
of Iranian ambitions can only worry moderate Arab regimes.
Such strategies must also be open to innovations in legal and financial
instruments
and guarantees, and they must be viewed as legitimate by diverse constituencies, including the young people who will inherit the arrangements that are created today.
It is little wonder, then, that monetary-policy
instruments
have become increasingly unreliable in generating economic growth, steady inflation, and financial stability.
Bondholders would be wise to exchange their current bonds for longer-dated
instruments
that would benefit from the upturn.
My thesis is that the degree of dynamism in a nation's economy hinges on its development of some key economic institutions - company law and corporate governance, the population's preparation for business life, the development of financial
instruments
such as the stock market and so forth.
Why not, then, quickly introduce new
instruments
such as Eurobonds, or create an EU mechanism comparable to the IMF?
Market tension has eased considerably;Ireland and Portugal are not under assistance programs anymore; the eurozone financial system has been strengthened by the decision to move to a banking union; and crisis-management
instruments
are in place.
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