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Political interference in the private sector throughout the region means that most
large
business projects are carried out as joint-ventures with state-controlled companies (sometimes covertly headed by members of the ruling elites).
But the fact is that this groundswell has in
large
part been catalyzed by the existing targets, timetables, and innovative mechanisms of the UN climate treaties, and not least by the momentum generated around the often-criticized 2009 Copenhagen summit.
This appears to be the Macri administration’s preferred strategy, reflecting its view that Argentina’s
large
current-account deficit is proof of markets’ support for the country’s trajectory.
And with a
large
portion of the fiscal deficit financed by foreign-currency-denominated debt, the external imbalances increase the risk that public debt will become unsustainable in the future.
In some countries, the magnitude of the shock was such that a
large
tax increase could not fill the gap.
They also belong to several
large
tribes, guaranteeing wide tribal representation if a military council were to take power, as in Egypt.
Saudi Arabia has shown remarkable resilience in overcoming political weakness, often by using its considerable oil revenues to buy itself out of trouble and maintain a
large
royal family that has been an essential source of stability.
Millions of households, with tens of millions of nomadic or semi-nomadic people, tend camels, sheep, goats, and other livestock, which they move
large
distances to reach rain-fed pasturelands.
Somalia, for example, contains only a part of the Somali-speaking pastoralist population, with
large
numbers living across the border in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Six countries in the region with
large
dryland zones – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, and South Sudan – have joined together in a Drylands Initiative to use best practices and cutting-edge technologies to support their pastoralist communities’ effort to escape the scourges of extreme poverty and famine.
But these risks do not outweigh the potential benefits of financial openness, and they can be minimized with effective monitoring and regulation, including requirements for
large
capital buffers and low leverage ratios, together with strong crisis-response mechanisms, like a resolution trust corporation.
But central banks today are influencing asset prices through a very
large
number of channels and procedures other than conventional open-market operations: they are trying to affect not just duration discounts but risk, default, and information-driven discounts as well.
The irony here is that political views of what banking must contribute to the public good are in
large
part at the origin of the current crisis.
Mexico, for example, has a
large
illicit narcotics industry that is fueled by US demand.
Another big change has come from fast-growing emerging-market countries, many of which, facing a wall of money coming their way from slow-growth advanced countries (and mindful of the costs that
large
and volatile capital flows can bring), have chosen to apply capital controls.
For example, in Seattle, with the third-largest homeless population among US cities, a per-employee tax on
large
companies was soon repealed under intense business pressure.
The crisis has amplified the role of Germany – with its economic size and
large
external surplus – and made everyone else look weak.
Indeed, most corporate tax revenues are paid by a small number of
large
multinational companies that earn more than half of their income from their foreign operations.
Since 2013, under the umbrella of its “Belt and Road Initiative,” China has been funding and implementing
large
infrastructure projects in countries around the world, in order to help align their interests with its own, gain a political foothold in strategic locations, and export its industrial surpluses.
China’s reliance on
large
trade surpluses and foreign-exchange reserves to fund the expansion of its global footprint makes it all the more vulnerable to the current pushback.
China, the world’s biggest dam builder – with slightly more than half of the approximately 50,000
large
dams on the planet – is rapidly accumulating leverage against its neighbors by undertaking massive hydro-engineering projects on transnational rivers.
The Metog Dam will be twice as
large
as the 18,300-megawatt Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest, construction of which uprooted at least 1.7 million Chinese.
The first problem is a
large
budget deficit, estimated to be around 7 percent of the gross domestic product.
The IMF’s remedy is a
large
international loan to Brazil, combined with a pledge by the Brazilian Government to cut its budget deficit sharply.
The Brazilian Government and the IMF are now gambling that with a
large
international loan to Brazil, the speculators will stop attacking the currency, and things will go back to normal.
That will hurt tax revenues and keep the budget deficit very
large
anyway.
The war also eradicated what little control the central government was capable of exercising in
large
parts of the country.
Armed militias sprang up all over central and eastern DRC, and today wield absolute power across
large
swathes of territory, exploiting the extractive industries for funding.
Joseph Kabila has made only token efforts to rein in corruption, perhaps because his hold on the presidency depends to a
large
degree on the financial largesse and patronage at his disposal to maintain allies and buy off rivals.
After all, countries are running
large
fiscal deficits and central banks have bought government debt, expanding the monetary base.
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