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In order to make local-government borrowing more transparent and accountable, the Third Plenum calls for streamlining the distribution of revenue between the central and local governments, increasing transfer payments to cities, and allowing local authorities to issue municipal bonds independently.
This would entail the mutualization of some national debt and the transfer of economic-policy sovereignty to supranational European institutions.
But the most remarkable misjudgment appears in the discussion of credit risk transfer.
In principle, low-income individuals and families could be compensated through lump-sum transfer programs.
The scale of this transfer of intellect may be unsurpassed in human history, and is greater than the flight of scientists from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
The resolution calls upon developed countries and international organizations to offer financial support, capacity-building assistance, and technology transfer to countries in need – especially in the developing world – thereby helping them to provide for their populations clean and affordable drinking water and basic sanitation.
Or consider transfer policies that tax the rich and the middle classes in order to increase the income of poor households.
This means that we can preserve acreage for watersheds, parks, or other environmental or historical sites, but allow property owners to sell and transfer their building rights elsewhere.
For example, in Kenya, a private company developed a mobile-payments system that allows users to transfer money using cell phones, effectively creating a banking system much more quickly than the government could have done.
As a result, a Kenyan farmer in a remote district can now obtain information about crop prices or transfer funds, without having to travel long distances and wait in lines.
Ghana has never had a civil war - a badge of honor in conflict-prone sub-Saharan Africa - and three years ago staged a peaceful transfer of power from one elected government to another.
The same, incidentally, applies to France, except that the French, unlike the Germans, find it difficult to transfer political sovereignty, whereas for us Germans, it is all about the money.
Economically, they must choose either joint liability and a transfer union or monetary re-nationalization.
The pay-as-you-go (PAYG) systems in place in many countries are giant intergenerational transfer schemes.
President Bush’s warning that “the transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action,” is meant to deter this outcome.
Developed countries should also fulfill their obligations under the Convention to provide financial support and technology transfer to enable developing countries to effectively tackle climate change.
In addition, appropriate mechanisms and institutional arrangements should be established for adaptation, financial support and technology transfer.
Indeed, they are cleared to leave, and it is only Obama’s failure to keep his promise – and the US Congress’s failure to legislate their transfer – that is keeping them there.
The transfer of public money to private corporations is far more attractive than old-fashioned market capitalism.
Entitlement programs would likely be reduced, but not enough to offset a substantial intergenerational burden transfer.
A crucial corollary of this strategy is large-scale technology transfer to developing countries, allowing them both to grow and to curtail their emissions.
With the expectation that there will be no "succession crisis" and that an orderly transfer of power had long been agreed, business people simply do not expect the political situation in China to be worse than in 1989, when good business opportunities continued to abound.
Germany’s consent was needed to create Europe’s “banking union,” which entailed the transfer of supervisory powers to the European Central Bank and the creation of a common fund to resolve failing banks.
Likewise, in Kenya, as cellphones became widespread, network operators introduced M-pesa, by which anyone with a mobile phone can transfer money quickly and cheaply – a boon for the smallest enterprises in particular.
Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international competitiveness.
In May 1972, when the United States returned the Okinawa Prefecture to Japan, the transfer included the Senkaku Islands, which the US had administered from Okinawa.
Another possibility would be to transfer responsibility for humanitarian aid in conflict zones to an NGO that is not under the same pressure to respect the sovereignty of internationally recognized regimes.
Reducing the income gap between old and new members would cut the transfer payments to be made by the Western countries to the East following the latter's eventual accession to the EU.
Countries like Ecuador, hobbled by massive external debt, poor infrastructure, a corrupt ruling class, and yawning inequality, need international agreements akin to those of the European Union that help reduce debt burdens, boost technology transfer, and promote social and economic justice.
The 70% drop in the price of a barrel of crude represents a colossal transfer of $3 trillion in annual income from oil producers to oil consumers.
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