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For example, rich countries’ voters in Europe could perhaps be persuaded to engage in a much larger bailout for Greece (one that is actually big enough to work), in exchange for higher payments in ten to fifteen years if Greek growth outperforms.
We are likely to see African technological leapfrogging in government organization (e.g. the efficiency of the payments and settlements systems in Southern Africa), road networks, power grids, air travel, and other parts of the critical economic "plumbing" necessary for a modern economy and for rapid growth in Africa’s living standards.
At the failed Camp David summit in 2000, Israeli negotiators suggested a $30 billion international fund that would make payments to genuine refugees.
As Nicholas Lardy of the Peterson Institute of International Economics points out, “China’s payments of licensing fees and royalties for the use of foreign technology have soared in recent years, reaching almost $30 billion last year, nearly a four-fold increase over the last decade.”
With a smaller debt burden and interest payments, Egypt’s fiscal position would improve significantly, and threats to economic growth would recede.
First, household-debt levels are enormous, capturing a quarter of income, with mortgage payments taking the lion’s share.
Brazil under Lula implemented Bolsa Familia, a system of direct cash payments to households that is credited with lifting millions out of poverty.
Attempts may also be made to dislocate our capital, bill, and securities markets, and to menace the basis of our system of credit and payments.”
It drew a line across lower Manhattan and offered anyone living below that line the equivalent of three months' rent (or, if they owned their own apartment, three months' mortgage and maintenance payments).
Such reforms, which would be popular in almost all member countries, need not conflict with the EU’s founding principles if they preserve the right to work throughout Europe, but return some control over non-economic migration and welfare payments to national governments.
After raising the minimum wage, the next step is to expand the EITC, by broadening its income and eligibility criteria, increasing its size, and making it available in periodic payments instead of an annual lump sum.
And beyond that, the federal government should strengthen incentives for states to match federal EITC payments based on their cost of living.
By contrast, turning creditor-country citizens’ tax payments into forced subsidies of other countries’ debts would undermine European cohesion.
We are also soon likely to have a unified, harmonized, and enforced-from-above system for euro payments, be they intrastate or interstate.
The Commission reckons that it is rather suspicious that every country currently has its own system, and that these national systems are used by more customers and for more transactions than the harmonized Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) system of payments.
Millions of customers have willingly relied on them for their debit and credit payments, and simply have not found reason to switch to the SEPA system, with its different codes, abbreviations, and symbols.
Income can be measured in two ways: market income before taxes and transfer payments, and disposable income after taxes and transfer payments.
Surprisingly, inequality of market income before taxes and transfer payments in the US is similar to that in many other developed countries, including those with egalitarian reputations like Sweden and Norway.
Among developed countries, the US does have the most unequal distribution of disposable income after taxes and transfer payments.
Other highly ranked policy options include the establishment of independent agencies to evaluate rigorously government spending programs, and more use of conditional cash transfer programs that provide regular payments to poor households for meeting conditions like sending children to school.
Meanwhile, Square, Paypal, and the start-up company Affirm are already processing a large share of online payments.
Some bank bosses will retire in shame, but with huge payments to ease their pain – such as the $55 million golden parachute handed to Bank of America’s Ken Lewis, with his, and the £25 million pension bestowed on Royal Bank of Scotland’s Fred Godwin.
But adopting this principle would entail such huge payments from developed countries to developing countries, that, regrettably, the former are unlikely to accept it.
Following this approach, the country offers to exchange old bonds for new bonds with a lower face value and/or lower interest payments and longer maturities.
In addition to rolling out the welcome mat for energy-hungry China, oil ministry officials say they will tighten financial regulations and impose sanctions on companies seen as defaulting on tax and royalty payments – moves apparently aimed at local subsidiaries of Western oil companies in the Niger Delta.
Since the 1970’s, Latin American countries have experienced, on average, 1.6 balance of payments crises per decade; some of the better known include the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, the Brazilian crisis of 1999, and the Argentine crisis of 2001-2002.
This often implies illicit payments to obtain contracts or licenses outside official tender processes.
Two basic strategies govern the government’s approach to stabilizing the economy: interest-rate-based inflation targeting, and gradual reduction of the primary budget deficit (which excludes interest payments).
Current US law attempts to blunt these competitive disadvantages through deferral, allowing US multinationals to delay tax payments on their foreign subsidiaries' earnings until they are repatriated to the US.
Most notably, last December, Sri Lanka was compelled to transfer the Chinese-built strategic port of Hambantota to China on a 99-year, colonial-style lease, because it could longer afford its debt payments.
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