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Formal League of Nations mandates and other
instruments
of hegemony were exercised to ensure British and French power over oil, ports, shipping lanes, and local leaders’ foreign policies.
In addition, the targets were generally set in terms of outcomes rather than policy
instruments.
This requires pushing interest rates as low as possible, and when these policies have run their course (such as when rates dip toward the negative), unconventional
instruments
like “quantitative easing” must be deployed to revive growth and inflation.
But the banks that benefited from public money are now bigger than ever; opaque financial
instruments
are once again de rigueur; and bankers’ bonus pools are overflowing.
Despite innovation in the financial products channeling ESG investment, the supply of ESG instruments, such as green bonds, remains insufficient.
Even if, like an orchestra, different countries use different
instruments
and play different notes, the main theme must be consistent.
They stepped beyond their mandates to provide quick financial support to investment banks, mostly by supplying private banks with liquid
instruments
in exchange for longer-term and less liquid assets.
It should consider developing appropriate liquidity
instruments
to give confidence to emerging market economies that may be affected by a crisis beyond their control, rather than forcing them to build up ever-larger reserves or resort to regional arrangements for self-insurance.
The intervention had its low points, perhaps none lower than the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, which was misidentified as a building that housed Serbian security assets –
instruments
of repression against Kosovo.
America’s absence from such
instruments
has much to do with Congressional opposition, as was seen in the latest attempt to ratify UNCLOS.
This is reflected in the success of recent Hollywood movies such as The Big Short (which has been rightly praised for making complex
instruments
like derivatives broadly understandable).
This would be an illusion even if operations in the Balkans prove a success -- a big if given the magnitude of the task and the paucity of
instruments.
Right now, the OECD’s definition of ODA does not even include some of the more effective
instruments
for facilitating structural transformation in recipient countries, such as equity investment and large non-concessional loans for infrastructure.
These mysterious
instruments
vary widely in size and complexity, but they all share a few wondrous capabilities.
Zucman, for his part, favors a single global registry – a publicly accessible database detailing the ownership of financial
instruments.
Inflationary expectations, as measured by the rates on certain market instruments, actually fell after the hike, indicating increased confidence that the ECB will keep a lid on price pressures.
German precision
instruments
and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.
Before the global financial crisis, Italy was described as a country of solid banks that were rooted in the local economy and never played with exotic financial
instruments
such as derivatives.
Particularly consequential, innovative financial
instruments
were used with abandon, subject to only loose supervision and weak regulation.
The country produced the world’s first known practitioner, Sushruta, and is the site where archaeologists have found the world’s oldest surgical
instruments
(dating from the first century).
The emerging economies generally have the policy instruments, balance sheets, and expertise to respond effectively.
If anyone does not like them, there are all the
instruments
of public debate and of critical discourse that an enlightened community has at its disposal.
All too often, policymakers treat public diplomacy as a bandage that can be applied after damage is done by other
instruments.
The first is for the US and the rest of the region to wholeheartedly support, and if possible reinforce, the democracy and human rights protection
instruments
developed over the years, given the precarious nature of democracy and respect for human rights in nations like Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia and others.
In the Baltic Sea region, we have already adjusted the legal framework to reflect our priorities, built energy links and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, invested in relevant market instruments, and secured a reliable energy supply.
Tax
instruments
and reserve requirements that put sand in the wheels of short-term capital inflows should be combined with strong countercyclical measures, such as additional capital requirements, to slow domestic credit creation.
While the new paradigm would safeguard the legitimacy of existing regulatory and diplomatic instruments, such as emissions trading, the EU would have to reconsider the framework for applying them.
Trump also proved unconventional in his choice of communication
instruments.
Yellen insists that there is nothing to worry about; the Fed has everything under control, because it can turn to alternative
instruments.
With time, member states’ economies started to recover, and new
instruments
for coordinating economic policy within the eurozone were adopted.
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