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Georgia was the first post-Soviet country to stage a “color revolution,” and thus to demonstrate, with dignity and maturity, its people’s choice for democracy and European values.
The lesson for regulators is simple: capacity for risk is related to the maturity of funding, not to what an institution is called.
Our decision more than a decade ago to surrender Ukraine’s status as a nuclear nation is the clearest sign of our good neighborly intentions and political maturity.
The French people have demonstrated maturity.
By February 2013, these ten African economies had collectively raised $8.1 billion from their maiden sovereign-bond issues, with an average maturity of 11.2 years and an average coupon rate of 6.2%.
These countries’ existing foreign debt, by contrast, carried an average interest rate of 1.6% with an average maturity of 28.7 years.
Understanding the risks of excessive private-sector borrowing, the inadequacy of private lenders’ credit assessments, and the conflicts of interest that are endemic in banks, Sub-Saharan countries should impose constraints on such borrowing, especially when there are significant exchange-rate and maturity mismatches.
As a measure of economic maturity, the report confirms what many in the international development community have long known: the region is ascendant.
Though a write-off of eurozone debts would be politically difficult, it would be possible to refinance a large proportion with longer maturity Eurobonds, which all eurozone countries would underwrite.
When released, they survive just long enough to mate with wild females, passing along the protein-producing gene, which kills their offspring before they reach maturity – resulting in the species’ elimination after a few generations.
Being able to implement a counter-cyclical fiscal policy was rightly viewed as a sign of economic maturity.
The aim was to reduce private credit spreads (the difference between yields on private assets and those on government bonds of similar maturity) and to boost, directly and indirectly, the price of other risky assets such as equities and real estate.
For example, committing to maintain zero policy rates for, say, three years implies that interest rates on securities with up to a three-year maturity should also fall to zero, given that medium-term interest rates are based on expectations concerning short-term rates over the next three years.
Latin America is truly at a crossroads: 2006 may well determine whether the continent lapses back into the sad days of chaotic past, who finds a new maturity to strike out on its own path to growth and stability.
Changing it is, therefore, not only vital for regaining competitiveness; it is also a critical test of the maturity of Spain’s democracy.
It is also important to emphasize the political stability – and public maturity – that allowed aparty whose program called for rationalization of spending to win an absolute majority in the parliamentary election held six months ago.
Re-profiling means lengthening the maturity of bonds while preserving principal and, generally, the coupons.
Nout Wellink of the Dutch Central Bank has explicitly said that more disclosure would one day be needed as the ECB reaches maturity.
The Maastricht-compliant part of its members’ sovereign debt would be restructured with longer maturities (equal to the maturity of the ECB bonds) and at the ultra-low interest rates that only the ECB can fetch in international capital markets.
Teachers will always remain essential for students’ growth and maturity, but new digital technologies can enhance secondary education.
While this may be true, there is a downside to maturity.
The answer is to emulate the response to sovereign-debt crises in Uruguay, Pakistan, Ukraine, and many other emerging-market economies, where orderly exchange of old debt for new debt had three features: an identical face value (so-called “par” bonds); a long maturity (20-30 years); and interest set well below the currently unsustainable market rates – and close to or below the original coupon.
Even if the face value of the Greek debt were not reduced, a maturity extension would still provide massive debt relief – on a present-value basis – to Greece as a euro of debt owed 30 years from now is worth much less today than the same euro owed a year from now.
Moreover, a maturity extension resolves rollover risk for the coming decades.
As a result, their offspring produce high levels of a protein that prevents their cells from functioning normally, causing them to die before reaching maturity.
But the maturity extensions and rate reductions granted so far have been far less than needed to ensure debt sustainability.
It would be an immensely encouraging sign of China’s growing maturity if its leaders used this moment to look beyond the bitter past toward a new future with Japan.
Emotional maturity and training are important means of limiting a narcissistic lust for power, and appropriate institutions are essential to getting the balance right.
Some of the six renewable-energy technologies evaluated, such as those that generate electricity from the oceans, will require more research, development, and incubation before they reach commercial maturity.
With the government assuming credit risk, mortgages become as safe as government bonds of comparable maturity.
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