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Similarly, neither Sunni leaders in Baghdad nor tribal leaders in Western Iraq (some of whom have accepted IS payments) have done much to denounce the group.
As Stanford professor Jeremy Bulow and I showed in our work on sovereign debt in the 1980’s, countries rarely can be squeezed into making net
payments
(payments
minus new loans) to foreigners of more than a few percent for a few years.
The current EU/International Monetary Fund strategy calls for a decade or two of such
payments.
This deterioration in government finances is not due to declining revenues, but to sharp increases in expenditures (such as wages, subsidies, interest
payments
and defense spending), which do little to boost growth in the way that government capital expenditures can.
But with the non-agricultural sectors of the economy declining and external trade and the balance of
payments
weakening because of the global economic slowdown, fiscal prudence will be harder to accomplish.
At the end of EU-financed investment projects –
payments
for which are agreed and executed in the annual budget framework – the money is transferred to the beneficiary.
Between the MTFA, the EFSM, and
payments
to third countries, the total exposure this year is €70.5 billion.
The capital would be repaid in annual installments as the funds become available through the EU budget, while the national co-financing rate would apply to interest
payments.
The king seized the estates, and sometimes the person, of wealthy lords or merchants and demanded hefty
payments
for their release.
But the criteria for judgment are clear: the new law must curb the practices that jeopardized the entire global economy, and reorient the financial system towards its proper tasks – managing risk, allocating capital, providing credit (especially to small- and medium-sized enterprises), and operating an efficient
payments
system.
Among other things, this unprecedented skewing of priorities led to a collapse in oil production, because the national oil company PDVSA failed to maintain its productive infrastructure and defaulted on
payments
to key contractors in order to pay its bondholders – thereby killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
Internationally enforceable remedies include compensation payments, for both ordinary and moral damages, and, where appropriate, interim injunctive relief pending final resolution of a dispute.
Experts agree, however, that the government’s poverty measure doesn’t correctly reflect the progress that has occurred, because official statistics focus only on cash income and ignore almost all of the government’s transfer
payments.
Additional non-budgetary expenditure, including disability
payments
and compensation to the families of fallen soldiers, will add hundreds of billions more to the war’s total cost.
Important changes in the balance of
payments
are also expected.
From the moment he fired Flynn, Trump has behaved as if he fears that Flynn has incriminating information that he might be able to trade to avoid punishment for improperly accepting and failing to disclose
payments
from the governments of Russia and Turkey.
Almost three years later, Ukraine is keeping up on its foreign
payments.
Moreover, because Ukraine voluntarily restructured its private debt last year,
payments
to service it will remain low until 2020.
One last consideration is that exporting countries will have to correct their balance of
payments
if their export earnings drop significantly.
I was also right to say that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of central-bank guarantees of system stability, in order to prevent the risk of a collapse of the
payments
system from becoming a first-order consideration boosting the demand for cash to unnatural levels.
It may therefore be tempting to invest in inflation-indexed bonds, which adjust both principal and interest
payments
to offset the effects of changes in price growth.
The answer may look obvious when comparing, say, Denmark (where public spending, excluding interest
payments
on debt, amounted to 58% of GDP in 2012) and the United States (where the same number was 35%).
Private health insurance is generally provided by employers, which is encouraged by treating employer
payments
for health insurance as a tax-deductible business expense while not including the value of that insurance as taxable income to employees.
Most of this increased cost would, in principle, be financed by $215 billion of taxes on high-premium insurance policies, and by about $400 billion of cuts in
payments
to physicians and hospitals that provide services to older patients in the Medicare program.
Similarly, the proposed cuts in
payments
to providers of services to Medicare patients are unlikely to receive the necessary Congressional support in future years, especially if it turns out that doing so would reduce the volume of services, rather than just providers’ incomes.
Countries such as Brazil already have such high levels of transfer
payments
from rich to poor that further moves would undermine fiscal stability and anti-inflation credibility.
Moreover, the US will begin running primary budget surpluses – the fiscal balance minus interest
payments
on existing debt – by 2015.
Indeed, given that most investment is financed by debt, and that interest
payments
are tax-deductible, the level of corporate taxation has little effect on investment.
By contrast, growth prospects in Europe today are rather dim, and interest payments, even for Greece or Italy, account for less than 20% of total revenues.
The 1840’s were a period of slow growth, and continued pressure from foreign creditors forced most of the official debtors to resume
payments
after a while.
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