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At the end of this trip, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced the possibility of a $4 billion EU aid
package
should Belarus hold a free and fair election.
By lowering the corporate-tax rate to a globally competitive level and granting better terms for repatriating profits, the tax
package
is expected to shift corporate earnings back to the United States.
Then EU Council President Angela Merkel called it “a breakthrough,” and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso proclaimed it “the most ambitious
package
ever.”
So a final element of the
package
ought to be a monitored pledge by eurozone banks that they will not unload bonds as the official sector steps in; that they will raise capital over time instead of continuing to deleverage (if this hurts bank equity holders, they should think of this as burden sharing); and that they will be circumspect about banker bonuses until economies start growing strongly again.
Adjust and Reschedule or Delay and DefaultBRUSSELS – As Greece activates its €45 billion rescue
package
with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, it is becoming clear that a new, far more comprehensive approach is needed.
The mix of measures should be left to Greece to decide, but a cut in unit labor costs of this size is an essential first step for a successful adjustment, and should be a pre-condition for the IMF/EU support
package.
Official financing needs would then be much more limited, and the IMF/EU
package
of around €45 billion should be sufficient to cover most of the progressively lower deficits over this grace period.
The perception of pent-up demand was like a powerful economic stimulus package, and it had the advantage that people believed it would be long-lasting.
The EU has prepared an €11 billion ($15 billion) aid package, though it is subject to rules and conditions set by the International Monetary Fund, which is contributing part of the total.
The lack of a common treasury is now in the process of being remedied, first by a rescue
package
for Greece, then by creating a temporary emergency facility, and – the financial authorities being a little bit pregnant – eventually by establishing some permanent institution.
A
package
of education reforms, which Congress has already approved, will improve the quality of teaching and the formation of human capital throughout the country.
Broad agreement on a bold reform
package
is possible.
Parliament's rejection of US troops powerfully refutes suggestions that Turkey was primarily concerned about the size of the American aid
package
on offer as an inducement to cooperate.
With respect to Obama’s stimulus package, it seems to me that there has been extraordinary intellectual and political dishonesty on the American right, which the press refuses to see.
The “troika” – the IMF, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank – might have refused to provide an aid package, forcing Greece to compress imports even more sharply.
Last month, China announced a $586 billion economic stimulus package, some 25% of which is to help bolster conservation, environmental protection, and renewable energy efforts.
We hope that the new stimulus
package
helps to move China toward greener development, and that countries follow suit.
The Copenhagen agreement envisages the world’s industrialized nations financing emissions reduction and other necessary adjustments in developing countries through a $30 billion aid package, which will rise to $100 billion between now and 2020.
A
package
of R&D and mitigation to combat global warming30.
In part, it acted because it saw the great powers offering Iran an interesting
package
of incentives to give up its nuclear enrichment program, while North Korea was being relegated to a diplomatic side track.
But given the other options, the US would be wise to start thinking of a new diplomatic
package.
The immediate uproar is over the exceedingly generous pay and promotion
package
that Wolfowitz awarded in 2005 to his girlfriend as compensation for leaving the Bank to pave the way for his arrival.
Following the March 19 referendum, in which most Islamists campaigned for a
package
of constitutional amendments and got 77% support, secularists took to the streets, mobilizing behind their own demands.
Indeed, enactment of such a
package
could bolster output and employment growth by easing investor concerns about future deficits and strengthening consumer and business confidence.
Republicans propose a massive tax cut while Democrats favor a
package
of greater spending and a lesser tax cut, but which has the same budgetary cost as the Bush plan.
The US Congress still has not approved the IMF reform
package
agreed in 2010, weakening one of the most important international institutions.
The recently agreed two-year, $27 billion financial-aid package, largely funded by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, will help.
There is no doubt that had John McCain won the presidential election last November, a very similar deficit-spending stimulus
package
to the Obama plan – perhaps with more tax cuts and fewer spending increases – would have moved through Congress with unanimous Republican support.
As N. Gregory Mankiw said of a stimulus
package
back in 2003, when he was President George W. Bush's chief economic advisor, this is not rocket science.
What I do not understand is opposition based on the claim that the stimulus
package
simply will not work: the government will spend its money, households will receive their tax rebates, and nothing will happen afterwards to boost employment and production.
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