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Furthermore, with the reforms in limbo, the IMF has been forced to depend largely on loans from its members, rather than the permanent resources called for by the new measures.
This change would double the IMF’s resources and provide greater voting power to developing countries.
Countries that are willing and able to pay their quota increases would be allowed to do so, increasing the IMF’s resources and boosting their relative voting power.
This requires political involvement as well as massive inflows of resources in order to rebuild and to ensure their development.
He has an asset-account surplus, and he is essentially selling or exporting claims on his future resources.
They underutilize and misuse valuable human resources; and they often give rise to political or social turmoil, often marked by ideological or ethnic polarization, which then leads either to wide policy swings or to policy paralysis.
The high esteem in which Palestinians hold Hamas also grew out of what Hamas actually did for them while the PA squandered its resources.
In the absence of sufficient demand, improving supply-side efficiency simply leads to more underutilization of resources.
In the US, resources were wasted when shoddy homes were built in the middle of the Nevada desert.
But the first priority is not to knock down those homes (in an effort to consolidate the housing market); it is to ensure that resources are allocated efficiently in the future.
That is because using resources in suboptimal ways is always better than not using them at all; in the absence of the post-2008 stimulus, China would have suffered substantial unemployment.
But, with increasing strain on the planet’s resources, meeting this demand could carry massive environmental costs from pollution and global warming.
The upshot of the BRICS meeting was the announcement of the New Development Bank, which will mobilize resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects, and a Contingent Reserve Arrangement to provide liquidity through currency swaps.
The fact is that resources are not evenly distributed among countries.
Some have gas, others hydrological resources.
Some have no particular resources and build thermal power plants or import expensive liquid fuels to meet their needs.
In Paris, CEOs from various industries – ranging from cement to technology companies – made clear pledges to decrease carbon footprints, invest in renewables, and manage resources sustainably.
Russia's European OccupationWhen Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas monopoly, cut off supplies to Ukraine and Georgia in January 2006, the move was widely seen as a clear warning of the Kremlin’s willingness to use its energy resources to exert political influence over Europe.
Putin denies that Russia is using its energy resources to coerce European governments, arguing that the decrease in gas supplies to Western Europe during the cut-off of gas to Ukraine in January 2006 was the result of Ukrainian “theft.”
Russia must be convinced that its resources will be far more valuable if they are opened to international investment, managed transparently, and operated according to the legal and commercial rules of the international trading system.
Moreover, if the Chinese government and Chinese firms want to continue investing in overseas oil resources and in foreign businesses, China will have to sell dollar bonds or other sovereign debt from its portfolio.
Rescuing the Amazon ForestsDeveloping countries are blessed with some of the world’s most precious natural resources.
To its credit, the Brazilian government has revoked policies that had previously encouraged land clearing in the Amazon, and has mandated that 80% of privately owned forestland be used only for sustainable management of forest resources.
Brazil has also developed a sophisticated system to track and record deforestation – though monitoring an area the size of Europe with scarce resources is by itself unlikely to lead to much compliance.
The idea was to provide constructive input to the Bangladeshi government and donors by determining where extra resources would do the most good.
But if we do not prioritize explicitly, we end up spreading resources thinly, or allow opaque bureaucratic processes and the vagaries of media attention and the pressure of lobby groups to prioritize for us.
Bangladeshis – and people everywhere – deserve the most efficient allocation of scarce development resources that can be achieved.
Moreover, many resources are infinite on the Internet.
They are all caught between the problems of the present and the mistakes of the past: in Europe, between institutions designed to avoid inflation when the problem is growth and employment; in America, between massive household and government debt and the demands of fiscal and monetary policy; and everywhere, between America’s failure to use the world’s scarce natural resources wisely and its failure to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East.
Given how unlikely it is that a free-market approach would lead to the equitable provision of education, my government has committed to increase the public resources allocated for education, which averaged only 2.4% of GDP from 2004 to 2013, to 4% percent of GDP over the next three years.
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