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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.
In this case, the majority’s rather optimistic view has been buttressed by a broad sense of relief.
To be sure, much more aggressive policy action (massive and unconventional monetary easing, larger fiscal-stimulus packages, bailouts of financial firms, individual mortgage-debt relief, and increased financial support for troubled emerging markets) in many countries in the last few months has reduced the risk of a near depression.
In the eurozone’s “core” countries, they purport to protect taxpayers from relentless demands for debtor-country relief.
Something similar occurred earlier this century, when 191 United Nations member states agreed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), secured more than $100 billion in debt relief for developing countries, and established the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, as well as the International Finance Facility for Immunization.
The US military’s impressive work in providing humanitarian relief after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 helped restore America’s attractiveness, and enhanced its soft power.
How Macron Can Unite EuropeMUNICH – Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election sent a wave of relief and euphoria across Europe.
President Charles Taylor's resignation from Liberia's presidency and his exile in Nigeria is not only a welcome relief for the war-torn land he so misruled, but also perhaps a bellwether for other discredited dictators.
For the British, however, the existence of contending claims is a major relief, as it helps the country to fend off a blizzard of demands to undo the manifold injustices of two or more centuries of colonial exploitation of far-flung lands.
In the first phase, during the war itself, aid is for humanitarian relief, focusing on food, water, emergency medicine, and refugee camps.
In the second phase, at the war’s end, aid remains mainly humanitarian relief, but now directed towards displaced people returning home, and to decommissioned soldiers.
There is often a lag of years before moving from humanitarian relief to real economic development.
Western politicians will cheer, and many pundits will express relief that less money will be flowing to undemocratic countries in the developing world.
German inflation worries have pushed the government into a much harsher stance on debt relief in Europe.
It was a relief to listen to my student’s well-articulated opinions and to see in her the hope of a new, cosmopolitan generation.
When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief.
Similarly, when Ebola struck West Africa in 2014, Lagarde directed the IMF to use its available cash to buy debt relief for countries in crisis, which enabled them to pay more doctors and nurses – the first-ever such use of IMF capital.
But how can debt relief be achieved for the sovereign without imposing massive losses on Greek banks and foreign banks holding Greek bonds?
Even if the face value of the Greek debt were not reduced, a maturity extension would still provide massive debt relief – on a present-value basis – to Greece as a euro of debt owed 30 years from now is worth much less today than the same euro owed a year from now.
Over-taxed and cheated by bad trade deals, goes the argument, America needs tax relief to revive its competitive prowess.
There is little doubt that the Greek government will gain some debt relief.
To help the Greek economy heal, debt relief must be both sizeable and a lever for eliminating most of the new austerity measures, which merely guarantee another spin of the debt-deflation cycle.
One clue recently emerged in an article in the Financial Times in which Klaus Regling, the head of Europe’s bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, returned to the troika’s mantra that Greece does not need substantial debt relief.
Many in Europe might regard Carter’s announcement as cause for relief.
The various departments, programs, organs, and agencies within the UN system address a broad spectrum of issues, from peace and security between and within states to human rights, health, education, poverty alleviation, disaster relief, refugee protection, trafficking of people and drugs, heritage protection, climate change and the environment, and much else.
Moreover, R&D incentives for the private sector – provided through tax relief, grants, or prizes – must be made accessible to firms in an equitable way.
Meanwhile, the US cannot expect much relief from exports, given the global economic slowdown, or from consumer spending.
Reducing those costs should be a priority in international discussions about the “digital divide” and “poverty relief.”
While well intentioned, the new budget’s lavish loan forgiveness scheme will not help those farmers who most need relief: 80% of India’s farmers have no access to formal credit, and it is bank loans that are to be forgiven.
But the strategy of embracing “poor-friendly” policies that deliver little real relief could backfire.
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