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Emerging markets have resorted to a variety of instruments to limit private-sector borrowing abroad: taxes, unremunerated reserve requirements, quantitative restrictions, and verbal persuasion.
But this can be ruled out in today’s Russia, because the instruments to implement it – notably an army that would obey orders to mow people down in the streets – are lacking.
At home, Putin has focused over the past year on dealing with his opponents – co-opting some and intimidating others by turning the Russian legal and penal systems into blunt instruments of repression.
Such an agreement could include trade in goods, services, financial instruments, and agriculture, and would necessitate greater compatibility of European and American regulations and legal norms, implying substantial savings.
Similarly, Germans have been critical of the ECB’s monetary-policy instruments, especially its “outright monetary transactions” program, with opponents appealing to the German constitutional court to invalidate the OMT scheme’s conditional purchases of eurozone government debt.
Now, memory laws have become one of the preferred instruments of nationalist populists attempting to consolidate their own power – and to incite the very xenophobic nationalism that once provided fertile soil for the Holocaust.
Similarly, broadening the range of available savings instruments could raise household disposable income and increase consumption.
Despite dramatic theoretical advances, financial institutions were, until recently, slow to develop and expand new instruments allowing people to exploit many risk-sharing opportunities.
Yet, as I argued in a recent book, financial instruments that increase our ability to manage risks that are now regarded as "non-diversifiable" would be of great economic importance.
Introducing such instruments, however, is likely to be costly.
But generating enough liquidity implies huge expenses: the public must be educated to understand the concept of risk management and overcome serious psychological barriers before it can be persuaded of the usefulness of the new instruments.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, financial institutions appear both as dangerous weapons of mass economic destruction, but also as potential instruments for the application of national power.
Before it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, China had a wider range of policy instruments for achieving this end.
In fact, the two instruments may well be complementary in eurozone countries.
This can be achieved through a program for subsistence farmers that not only improves productivity, but also reduces weather dependency and provides simple financing instruments to encourage investment in new technologies and equipment, increased land ownership, and easier access to local markets.
For example, the EU supports the growth of agriculture and rural development through two types of instruments.
Beyond these financial instruments, we need to improve on the status quo by investing in the research and development needed to modernize agriculture and reduce the risk of crop failures.
But South Africa needs instruments that facilitate activity and incentives that reward productivity, not barriers to investment or initiative.
Another way to better use diaspora savings would be to create new “diaspora” financial instruments.
Straightforward regulation is also sometimes more effective than price-based instruments.
So price instruments are a vital part of the policy armory.
But collapsing solar, wind, battery, and LED prices show that other instruments are also required, and in some cases more effective.
We created the instruments needed to assist distressed countries, and the ensuing adjustment programs are delivering results.
To achieve this, viable instruments are needed.
Today’s EU was built on concrete achievements, combining vision and the instruments needed to implement it.
The Georgia package is not a done deal, and circumstances elsewhere are different, but it shows that standard instruments can go a long way.
Yet more resources and new instruments will be needed.
Many countries still need to improve their defenses and implement the 16 counter-terrorism instruments established by the United Nations, including the convention against terrorist financing.
After a year in which leaders reverted time and again to the failed policies of the past to address shared challenges, COP24 showed that there might still be room for innovative instruments for responding to common threats.
A more realistic scenario is that the new administration will employ four other instruments.
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