And microfinance institutions can help finance small enterprises.

More access to finance for small and medium sized businesses would help, too.

By helping to spread risk, high tech finance could help economies grow faster.

The Revenue Act of 1861 introduced the income tax to help finance the war.

It is entirely plausible that Thaksin did help finance the protest.

The World Bank should increase lending to help finance growth supporting expenditures in developing countries.

His views concerning the future of finance will help shape what happens.

Finally, officials everywhere should invest in institutions that help to convince markets of their commitment to public finance sustainability.

Internationalization can help in this process by improving competitiveness through, for example, access to finance, technology and know how.

China, the largest investor in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, could help finance projects of common interest.

Importantly, the World Bank, under its new president, Robert Zoellick, has now stepped forward to help finance this new approach.

In 1996, when Pakistan was near bankruptcy and contemplating default, I went to Beijing as the country s finance minister to ask for help.

It must help us to come together on issues related to trade, finance and development in an environment free from prejudice and dogma.

Likewise, the Bush administration opposed the OECD initiative to restrict bank secrecy until it realized that secret bank accounts help finance terrorists.

Donor governments, including the oil rich countries of the Middle East, should help finance the World Bank s new efforts.

Leadership is needed, within the countries in need as well as among the rich nations that can help to launch and finance the solutions.

To help finance his communist movement in the 1930 s, Mao squeezed poor peasant families with any assets in the Red zone he controlled.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank lead the chorus of traditional players eager to help, offering debt write offs and concessionary finance.

With the help of import licensing, then Finance Minister Konan Bédié earned his first billion CFA francs within a year.

Rather than focusing on sanctions, the major powers would do much better to work with Sudan s government to propose and help to finance long term development strategies.

Only by adjusting the distribution of public finance can China s leadership help local governments to decrease their reliance on land transfer revenues and bank loans.

Geithner is a very smart and experienced public servant. His views concerning the future of finance will help shape what happens.

160 160 160 160 160 160 160 160 Finally, officials everywhere should invest in institutions that help to convince markets of their commitment to public finance sustainability.

Points could also be used to help finance volunteerism or care for elderly family members. Points earned through hard toil could be spent on retiring earlier.

Following the Health Services Development Project (PDSS), the government requested IDA to help finance a second, 6 year project to carry the health system development strategy through to 2000.

They could help finance government support for the unemployed, indigent, and elderly, who are among the principal victims of the financial crisis.

Advocating a carbon tax in response to the oil spill does not have to be just a way of exploiting tragedy in the Gulf to help finance outsized government spending.

There are already institutions within Europe, such as the European Investment Bank, that could help finance needed investments in the cash starved economies.

Many countries, including brotherly countries in Central America and the Caribbean, require immediate action to help finance the supply of fuel and the development of new fuel sources.

This response to homegrown problems plays well with voters, but it is ridiculous and ignorant, especially since the US has been depending on China to help finance the fiscal deficits.

In India, financial repression is used as a means to marshal captive savings to help finance massive government debts at far lower interest rates than would prevail in a liberalized market.

It was a remarkable cry for help, and a serious indictment of the economics profession, not to mention all those extravagantly rewarded finance professors in business schools from Harvard to Hyderabad.

In order to ensure the sustainability of their activities, they needed help, in particular where value chains were affected by market failures concerning access to markets, technology, finance, and information technology.

C. Access to finance

In an effort to increase its low popularity in Latin America, the Bush administration recently announced an additional 75 million for education, and 385 million to help finance mortgages for the poor.

Similarly, the IMF is not expected to help India whose per capita GDP is less than a tenth of eurozone levels to finance the poverty stricken states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Reductions in subsidies and improved cost recovery for those who can afford to pay can help to finance operation and maintenance costs, ensure quality and reliability of service and encourage water use efficiency.

Nevertheless, the scope and requirements of the task go beyond the country's capacity and call for ongoing mobilization on the part of the donors to help finance development and overcome poverty.

The entire objective of IMF lending is to help finance the country while it makes adjustments and regains access to private borrowing. This also means that a country with too much debt should renegotiate it down before getting help from the IMF, thereby avoiding an unsustainable repayment burden.

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I am pleased to note that some development partners are increasingly interested in security sector reform, especially the European Union, which has requested ECOWAS to submit projects that EU could help to finance in this area.

Back to the Future in Finance

My Speech to the Finance Graduates

Vice Ministry of Public Investment and External Finance (Ministry of Finance)