The IMF Needs Fresh Thinking on Capital Controls

The equity capital of banks urgently needs to be substantially increased.

Instead, it needs to invest in the region s human capital and share Indian know how.

Development of capital markets needs to be supported through a series of reforms at various levels.

A good regulatory framework, including enforcement measures, needs to be established in order to develop a capital market.

Yes, China needs to strengthen its social safety net and to deepen domestic capital markets before consumption can take off.

Growth will also not be sustained if Asia's huge needs for investment in infrastructure, technology and human capital remain unmet.

The IMF forecasts that the Hariri government should be able to tap capital markets to cover its financial needs for 2010.

First, China needs capital controls to retain monetary policy independence until it is ready to adopt a floating exchange rate regime.

British banks, having grown up in the early nineteenth century, when industry s capital needs were modest, specialized in financing foreign trade rather than domestic investment, thereby starving industry of the capital needed to grow.

An innovative economy needs open markets, venture capital, free thinking entrepreneurs, fast bankruptcy courts and solid protection of intellectual property, she argues.

Clearly, there is a need to deepen capital markets in Africa in order to utilize global savings for the continent's development needs.

Thus, banks losses on their toxic assets and their capital needs will be much larger than recently estimated, which will worsen the credit crunch.

The system needs circuit breakers in the form of loans and capital flows that dampen the volatility and maintain access to financing across the system.

What Europe needs is a mechanism that lets the capital market work most of the time, but that enables intervention when it ceases to function.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

In other words, the eurozone needs a European Monetary Fund that prevents this vicious circle from tightening by providing bridging finance when capital markets break down.

The US does not just pluck surplus foreign savings out of thin air. To attract the capital it needs, America must send dollars overseas through foreign trade.

Europe urgently needs to devote its energy to revitalizing the building blocks of its economy industry, human capital, and a policy framework that enables healthy growth and future prosperity.

However, for poorer countries with urgent needs for infrastructure that cannot be met from domestic resources or international borrowing, grants for capital projects can play a relatively important role.

Highly industrialized countries must be encouraged to supply the capital and know how to help Africans to acquire and adapt technological tools and know how to developing country needs.

The eurozone needs a banking union a European deposit insurance scheme in order to stem capital flight, a European source for financing bank recapitalization, and eurozone wide supervision and regulation.

Economic growth, with consequent benefits in terms of poverty alleviation, can be achieved by helping small and medium sized enterprises to meet their capital needs and improving access to markets.

For that purpose, a training needs assessment mission was conducted by UNITAR in Dushanbe during June 2005, identifying the short term training needs of the ministries and the civil society with a view to implementing five training workshops from September 2005 to September 2006 in the capital.

There is no reason why the NDB should create problems, either. With initial capital of just 100 billion, it is too small to make a major contribution to global infrastructure needs.

Just as a firm needs to measure the depreciation of its capital, so, too, our national accounts need to reflect the depletion of natural resources and the degradation of our environment.

Efratti of From Nation's Capital to Nation's Capital adds

Her human capital was no match for his financial capital.

Its capital, Belgrade, was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.

The main questions were how to create a win win situation for corporations and host countries, and how to ensure that investment capital was channelled to meeting the essential needs of the people.

Why bind up Chinese capital to finance America s debt consumption economy, they ask, when so many needs go unmet at home? China was one of the world s most egalitarian societies as late as 1985.

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The sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) proposed in the project document as a tool for analysing the success of the project is based on the following set of broad success indicators natural capital, physical capital, social capital, human capital and financial capital.

She needs him more than he needs her.

Italy needs Italian solutions, just as Greece needs Greek solutions, Portugal needs Portuguese solutions, and so on.

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The Federal Capital Territory (later renamed the Australian Capital Territory) was formed in 1911 as the location for the future federal capital of Canberra.