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Even with substantial reform to improve its growth potential, Greece will never be able to repay its sovereign debt and needs substantial relief.
It was for these same people that the Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt relief was carried out by many individuals and organizations all over the world.
This is why debt relief is so important.
Swayed by this logic, the US has pushed to accelerate delivery of aid--a task it knows well how to achieve, having provided nine-tenths of all emergency relief money to Afghanistan even during the Taliban years.
Second, deep debt relief must be part of the deal.
The IMF was the first to break the silence, acknowledging that it had been urging debt relief but to no avail.
Following Schauble’s remarkable acknowledgment (made publicly only after utter catastrophe had struck), Merkel herself opined that perhaps certain kinds of relief (such as cuts in interest rates, rather than in the debt’s face value) could do the job in a way that would be consistent with EU rules.
So European states have no choice but to reduce their expenditures, and targeting welfare benefits that represent, on average, half of European public spending is the easiest way to bring immediate fiscal relief.
The problems will come after the first phase of euphoria and relief.
A combination of massive upfront direct financial assistance, enhanced trade preferences, and temporary debt relief is needed.
Moreover, as a state (even with observer status), Palestine could seek legal relief from the International Court of Justice.
And it could compel Europe to overcome the political obstacles blocking solutions to longstanding problems, such as providing the cover needed for certain European creditors to grant deeper debt relief for Greece, whose already-massive fiscal and employment problems are being exacerbated by the influx of refugees.
That might come as a relief for those in the United Kingdom and elsewhere who fear domination by Brussels, but it can only dismay those who hope that, despite its sluggish economy and declining population, Europe can become a relevant global actor.
This difference will become even more pronounced as increasing amounts of debt relief are delivered under the Initiative for Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs), because a principal condition for this assistance is that money saved is channeled into poverty reduction.
In the past year, 10 of the 41 eligible countries have been granted debt relief under this initiative; we expect another 10 to start receiving debt relief by the end of this year.
But Hollande lacked charisma, and his foreign-policy activism threw into sharp relief France’s faltering economy, which has weakened its standing on the world stage.
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC), created in response to the great debt relief campaigns of the 1990s, has written off around $77 billion in debt for 36 countries.
There is an alternative to IMF-sponsored inertia on debt relief.
And it has testified to the good sense of those who have been arguing for years, in a variety of Asian and wider global contexts, that maritime search, rescue, and disaster relief is an ideal place to start in creating confidence building mechanisms aimed at laying the foundations for conflict prevention and resolution.
The heavily indebted countries need relief on their financing costs.
German authorities are working feverishly to come up with a set of proposals in time for the European Union summit at the end of June, but all signs suggest that they will offer only the minimum on which the various parties can agree – implying, once again, only temporary relief.
Debt relief could take various forms other than Eurobonds, and would be conditional on debtors abiding by the fiscal compact.
Withdrawing all or part of the relief in case of nonperformance would be a powerful protection against moral hazard.
The proposed reforms would make it easier for firms to dismiss employees, decentralize bargaining between employers and workers in small firms (by eliminating sector-level agreements), and introduce a ceiling on indemnity for wrongful dismissal, providing firms relief from the unpredictability of damages awarded through arbitration.
The limit will now be relaxed due to the "exceptional" circumstances implied by the Iraq war-providing relief, ironically, to the war's main European opponents, France and Germany.
No offer of debt relief.
In April, the country was granted $170 million in debt relief – the payoff for years of economic reform.
For the West, this dilemma has been thrown into sharp relief by the murder of the self-exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi death squad in Turkey.
To find relief, we must look to the skies – but not in the way one might expect.
Al-Shabaab is blocking most international relief agencies from accessing famine areas, preventing famine victims from reaching help, and forcing farmers back to their barren land, where most will die unseen and unrecorded.
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