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The annual return on this capital is currently estimated at 60 billion tons, yet only two billion tons is consumed for food purposes and 10 billion tons for energy.
In return for offering the exchange against a haircut, the EMF would acquire the claims against the defaulting country, which would then receive any additional funds from the EMF only for specific purposes that the EMF approves.
One financial issue on which there is global agreement is the need to close down offshore bank havens, which exist mainly for purposes of tax evasion and avoidance, money laundering, and corruption.
Evidently, investors were supposed to infer that for all practical purposes they should think of Spanish and German debt as identical – the old hubris of the eurozone.
Leftist support has surged at a time when growth averages something like 3% per year in real terms, and is coupled with the most egalitarian income distribution in Latin America, as well as relatively high government spending for social purposes.
Given the evidence of widespread capital flight fueled by external borrowing, African governments can rightly insist that creditors have the responsibility of establishing that their loans were used for bona fide purposes.
It is an option that arises because ideologies are not just learning devices; they also serve social and psychological purposes.
But today two-thirds of American adults get some of their news from social media, which rest on a business model that lends itself to outside manipulation and where algorithms can easily be gamed for profit or malign purposes.
“[W]e should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death,” he wrote, “unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.”
Japan justifies its whaling as “research,” because the International Whaling Commission’s rules allow member nations to kill whales for such purposes.
When Nazi Germany invaded the western Soviet Union, the Germans kept the collective farms intact, rightly seeing them as the instrument that would allow them to divert Ukrainian food for their own purposes, and starve whom they wished.
Both houses are now controlled by Republicans, who tend to deride international organizations and resist offering foreign aid, even for humanitarian purposes.
But Obama suggested using the weight of commercial relations between the two countries to tell the Iranian leader that he should follow Brazil’s example (in Brazil, the ban on nuclear energy for military purposes is enshrined in the Constitution).
After all, as the Syrian conflict has starkly demonstrated, wars usually defeat their own purposes.
Savvy American politicians even make use of it for their own purposes.
One of the crucial purposes of the Commission is to help give voice to the health needs of the poorest of the poor.
For one thing, unlike gold – which has always had other purposes and today is employed widely in new technologies from iPhones to spacecraft – Bitcoin has no alternative use.
In a dismaying number of countries, including his own, India, governments spend more for military purposes than for education and health care combined.
In other words, Europe has not been able to exploit the new technologies for productive purposes, both as a user and as a producer of IT.
With regard to IT use , Europe has spent a lot of money investing in IT, but often not for productive purposes.
But why does Europe find it so hard to exploit IT for productive purposes?
Greater clarity about how much water enters and leaves catchments, and for what purposes, would enable smarter policies, just as savvy investors rely on good financial accounting.
The data enable the system to determine how much water is available in a river basin, how much is being used for various purposes, and how water use has changed over time.
For example, if Iran’s nuclear activities were to be surrounded with enough voluntarily accepted checks and controls, we could be confident of detecting at an early stage any diversion toward military purposes.
Good government also requires sharing a vision of the future – the purposes and thinking behind public policies – with the community.
According to the UN Charter, one of the organization’s purposes is to coordinate relief operations during and after disasters of a “humanitarian character” in which national authorities cannot cope on their own.
They interfere with markets when it suits their purposes.
Investing in a sustainable economy would dramatically boost our wellbeing and use our “excess” savings for just the right purposes.
Sometimes those networks overlap, with common participants, and sometimes they are distinct; they all serve our interests in different ways and for different purposes.
And while the app’s privacy policy has since been changed, that US firm retains the previously acquired data, which it could use for commercial purposes today and for who knows what else tomorrow.
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