France has a veto within the boards of directors of the Franc Zone s two central banks, while two French commercial banks, BNP Paribas and Société Générale, exercise a quasi monopoly on lending programs, mainly centered on short term trade financing and the needs of governments, public and private companies, and the elite.

Developing Economies Long Term Financing Shortfall

In many other countries, fiscal policy is crippled by confusion between short term cyclical and long term structural deficits.

They also make a management mistake by investing where there is only short term gain.

European authorities rejected my plan in favor of the LTRO.

These securities are offered in pairs one long and one short and, unlike in a government run scheme, in whatever quantity the market demands.

There is no short term cure for China s 3.2 trillion problem.

Political pressures lead to the prioritization of investment with short term and sectoral orientations in situations of extreme poverty.

That brings us to the link between corporate short termism and weak public finances.

Immediately after that decision, short term funding for even the best capitalized firms virtually collapsed and the entire financial system simply became dysfunctional.

These contractors are hired on a short term basis and, once their project has been implemented, they are either redeployed to another project or released from UNOPS employment.

Given this multiplicity of issues, it is almost impossible to give a short term assessment of achievements, failures, progress and setbacks in any particular place.

But, despite the arrival of new, reform minded governments in both Italy and Spain, the relief proved short lived.

These processes can execute in a short amount of time, but are typically long running, in which the application will need to shut down to conserve memory between steps.

The United Arab States (UAS) was a short lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen from 1958 to 1961.

Obama will need to put forward a medium term fiscal plan that restores government finances.

Tom is short, but not as short as Mary.

However, it has retained many broad characteristics and with the exception of the short lived Second Republic of South Korea, the country has always had a presidential system with an independent chief executive.

The EIB can only provide large banks with funding to lend to local SMEs. But the ECB is essentially already doing this with its three year LTRO loans.

Convincing foreign direct investors that India is a reliable destination will increase the inflow of long term funds.

Indeed, Africa s SMEs are often unable to secure long term financing.

Sensible rules promise big payoffs, given the current and long term global crisis in public finances.

So far, the strategy of maintaining banking systems on feeding tubes of taxpayer guaranteed short term credit has made sense.

The US has reached the practical limits of reliance on short term stimulus spending, and will need to start cutting the budget deficit and fostering alternative pathways to growth.

They need to find ways for the long term financing of biodiversity conservation, which is currently financed mostly through external funding.

Germany even has short time allowances that enable companies to reduce their employees working hours, with the loss in earnings partly reimbursed by the state.

In the meantime, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is implementing a short term reinsertion programme targeting 5,200 ex combatants and the communities where they are resettling.

Yet financial markets are not pricing dollar depreciation and a rise in long term US interest rates accordingly.

It is too early to tell whether this blocking pattern is a manifestation of weather variability, a short term climate variation, or the result of climate change.

Suppose you had placed a long term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market.

At the same time, there is a need to undertake a thorough review of the Centre's programme of activities, with a view to developing medium and long term projects to address the demands and needs of the countries in the region and ensuring reliable adequate funding for them.

In Thessaloniki, the Programme provides for the operation of a Reception Centre and short term accommodation of the victims, a project to be implemented by the K.A.TH.V. The organization is a member of the Galatsi Group .

Micro entrepreneurs in the informal economy, the majority women, most often have no access to financing and long term capital.

But, given the close linkages between Mexican production and US consumption (which is now sputtering again), any resilience in the Mexican economy could be short lived.

Short description and name

Ensure long term public funding for academic and industrial research, as well as for the development of new medicines and treatments to address the great pandemics and other tropical diseases

If fully funded, the Agency will be able to implement its medium term plan to improve services for refugees and their living conditions.

The assistance provided needs to be supported over a number of years and, where shorter term in country or regional training is delivered, this needs to be followed up to consolidate and institutionalize both knowledge and skills.

In June 2005, the two departments hosted seven staff members of the ECOWAS Observation and Monitoring Centre for short term training with relevant divisions of the United Nations Secretariat.

To provide short term financing to a bank during any restructuring, the Commission s plan would create a European Fund, putting all banks on an equal footing.

From a long term perspective, the key to financing for development lies in enhancing developing countries' capacity for self financing and in diversifying their ways and means of financing.

The current annual voluntary funding had proved to be unstable and unpredictable, and it failed to include long term development planning needs.

Whenever funding permitted, the national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies provided sustainable long term financial resources, technical assistance and knowledge at the community level.

Tom's hair is really short.

Consider, first, the lofty market capitalization of Apple and other tech companies, which belies the depiction of US financial markets as hopelessly short term oriented.