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Others pretend to worry about the moral-hazard implications of debt relief, despite the fact that the country’s private-sector debt has already been written off at EU insistence, and that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of precedents for restructuring the debts of insolvent sovereigns.
Since 2001, billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq.
Key disaster mitigation programs were slashed and federal funding for post-disaster relief was cut in half.
With Louisiana’s ability to protect itself weakened and the center of disaster relief badly undermined, an inadequate government response and unnecessary destruction were almost inevitable – with the poor paying the price.
In other words, there is no significant “haircut” for creditors and only limited debt relief, at best, for debtor governments.
Instead of punitive measures to enforce such standards, poor countries ought to be given incentives, such as tariff relief, to comply.
But only about half of those who try antidepressant drugs respond to them, and those who do may have to wait several weeks or even months before experiencing relief – a critical failing for people at immediate risk of suicide.
This research could eventually lead to an entirely new class of antidepressant – and relief for millions of people worldwide.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, we discovered that President Bush had appointed a crony rather than a professional as head of America’s emergency relief agency.
International relief agencies are also starved for cash and resources.
But those who breathed a sigh of relief at the weakening of Netanyahu’s Likud and the country’s extreme right-wing parties should be as anxious as ever.
To the relief of the Saudi royals, the Arab Spring did not lead to the creation of functioning democracies in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, or Syria.
Everyone knows that Greece will be unable to work its way out of crisis without massive debt relief.
We can see this process in sharp relief when, following the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, we classify experts as “hedgehogs” or “foxes.”
Greece’s European partners, by contrast, were deeply divided on whether to give the country the relief it needed to keep it in the eurozone.
It also needs a higher inflation target (to reduce the need for nominal wage and price reductions); debt relief, where appropriate; a proper banking union with an adequate, centralized fiscal backstop; and a “safe” eurozone asset that national banks could hold, thereby breaking the sovereign-bank doom loop.
Indeed, a strange sense of relief is now creeping into Americans’ consciousness as the consumer economy grinds to a halt.
The relief comes from not aspiring to spend like Suleman, or Britney Spears, or the neighbors down the street.
Internationally enforceable remedies include compensation payments, for both ordinary and moral damages, and, where appropriate, interim injunctive relief pending final resolution of a dispute.
The implementation in 1994 of Plano Real (“The Real Plan”) brought some relief, by introducing a set of stabilization measures that created the current currency.
The other half are for a complex range of programs including food stamps, housing subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and cash relief.
The International Monetary Fund provided an emergency credit line to support the currency, the World Bank coordinated the relief effort (much of it financed by the United States and the EU), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development used its knowledge and resources to lead the effort to save the financial system.
So she spearheaded efforts to secure justice for human-rights abuses that had occurred during the civil wars; reignited the economy through debt relief; rebuilt war-torn infrastructure; improved access to clean water and sanitation; and strengthened Liberia’s democratic institutions, including by enacting the country’s first Freedom of Information Act.
United Nations and World Bank reports indicate that from 2000 to 2008, rich-country governments devoted 20% of all aid spending to disaster relief work, but less than 1% to disaster prevention.
Conventional wisdom has changed, and many people will be breathing a sigh of relief when inflation rates rise above 3% or more in the US and elsewhere.
Now that the problem has been articulated, one can sense not only general agreement, but almost palpable relief.
Many official instruments of soft power – public diplomacy, broadcasting, exchange programs, development assistance, disaster relief, military to military contacts – are scattered around the government, and there is no overarching strategypolicy, much less ora common budget, that even tries to integrate combine them with hard power into a national coherent security strategy.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, we should embrace migration as a proven method of bringing immediate relief and stability to poor nations.
The False Promise of Debt ReliefWith debt relief for poor countries shaping up as a focal issue at the July G-8 summit in Scotland, it is a shame that so few people appreciate what a farce such measures could turn out to be.
Unfortunately, most of the public, egged on by well-meaning rock stars, religious leaders, and other popular figures, seem brainwashed into believing that debt relief is a giant step on the road to ending world poverty.
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