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At first glance, it seems incredibly generous and statesman-like for G-8 leaders to endorse debt relief for the world’s poorest nations.
If the G-8 leaders are serious about helping poor countries, finding a reliable way to support grant aid and promote accountability for donors and recipients, not debt relief, is the place to start.
The political temptation is always there to resort to inappropriate monetary expansions that bring temporary relief at the expense of harming longer-term growth.
So it was a relief to encounter William Cline’s book The Right Balance for Banks, which attempts to produce a rationale for the appropriate level of bank capital.
The search for additional and more stable funding to meet the MDG’s has led to various proposals for innovative financing mechanisms and debt relief, in particular by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.
They must also ensure that additional official financing and debt relief will not distort incentives or create moral hazard.
But, in the end, there are only three ways to secure additional financing for development aid or debt relief: higher taxes, increased indebtedness (that is, higher taxes for future generations), and/or monetary expansion.
Finally, the proposed “better use” of the IMF’s gold holdings to finance the costs of debt relief seeks to raise up to $8 billion.
To use IMF gold for further debt relief in the face of increased risk threatens the Fund’s financial integrity and contradicts the recent decision to increase the IMF’s precautionary balances.
Greece, for its part, is determined to gain relief from the punitive and counter-productive austerity imposed on it, at Germany’s insistence, by the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund).
Without some form of debt relief, it could easily be lost.
In addition to restructuring the financial sector, recovery programs in the US, the United Kingdom, and other industrial countries hardest hit by the financial crisis must include relief for home and business owners, and job creation through infrastructure projects, clean-energy technologies, and improvements in healthcare and education.
This satisfied both Western economists and global financial markets, which breathed a collective sigh of relief when Chinese leaders reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining a stable renminbi.
Despite the efforts of United Nations relief agencies, the carnage this summer has created an additional one million child refugees.
Ultimately, the only sensible way to provide tax relief to middle- and lower-income workers is to raise taxes on the rich.
But the battalion-size (1,500 troops) EU Battlegroups committed to it by various European countries are oriented principally toward humanitarian relief and peacekeeping.
Two dismal months for financial markets may give way in March to a relief rally for assets such as global equities, as some key central banks (the People’s Bank of China, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan) ease more, while others (the Fed and the Bank of England) will remain on hold for longer.
Aid should not be a mere side show to the seemingly endless peace talks taking place in Geneva; as United Nations emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos insisted, it must be central to those negotiations.
Markets recognize this, which is why the Irish rescue brought no relief.
Humanitarian relief must stand alongside economic development and good governance as the pillars of Africa’s drive to achieve its true potential.
Under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Fund was in thrall to the French and German governments, which adamantly opposed debt relief.
It is lobbying the troika for further debt relief.
Bhola is still considered one of the worst natural disasters on record, and the military dictatorship’s lukewarm relief efforts incensed the Bengali population.
After all, the mere announcement of the program had provided relief to struggling governments and may well have saved the monetary union, at least temporarily.
Throughout last autumn, they agonized over the rise of Spanish and Italian bond rates, until finally the European Central Bank decided to administer pain relief in the form of large-scale liquidity provision to banks.
But, despite the arrival of new, reform-minded governments in both Italy and Spain, the relief proved short-lived.
Had our policy recommendation been adopted, stockholders and debt holders (who have a higher propensity to save) would have experienced greater losses than they did, whereas lower- and middle-income households (which have a higher propensity to consume) would have experienced relief from their mortgage debt.
We did recognize a problem with our proposal: providing relief to over-indebted mortgage holders would have encountered resistance from the many homeowners who had not taken out a mortgage.
Large-scale natural disasters – hurricanes in Puerto Rico, floods in South Asia, earthquakes in Mexico – have brought massive damage and loss of life, and not nearly enough relief aid.
Beyond the Nairobi MassacreNAIROBI – Kenya heaved a collective sigh of relief when the four-day siege at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall finally ended.
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