Local currency government debt markets have performed fairly well during the crisis, while local currency corporate debt markets have played a more modest role as a vehicle for longer term finance.

All organizations whose expenditures, like those of the secretariat, are predominantly incurred in local currency experience problems arising from exchange rate fluctuations.

Local currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long term investments.

Some 18 Governments increased their contributions to regular resources in local currency and 14 increased by 7 per cent or more.

For one thing, it is folly to think that more local currency debt eliminates the possibility of a financial crisis.

The exchange rate explains part, but not all, of the increase, since 13 countries actually increased contributions in local currency.

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Encouraging participation by foreign investors is a quick way to jump start local bond market activity.

Seventeen donor countries and EU increased their contributions in 2003.7 Of the countries that registered increases in funding levels, three countries had actually decreased their contributions in terms of their local currency, but showed an increase in terms of the United States dollar.

But, as these investments bolster economic growth, increased tax revenues would imply more sustainable financing, as would local governments ability to leverage land markets and approach local currency debt markets.

But LGIVs obtained a massive amount of financing in 2012 by issuing bonds and trust loans.

These countries households continue to save, accumulating deposits at their local banks and buying bonds from their local wealth managers.

Governments may be able to mobilize funding through debt swaps, where donors exchange debt for local currency investment in environmental protection, such as waste water treatment.

A deeper and more efficient financial sector would also reduce transaction costs and facilitate risk management. Local currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long term investments.

Local bond markets provide alternative sources of financing for companies and Governments, which avoid exchange rate risks inherent to foreign financing.

My Canadian colleague Mark Kamstra and I have proposed issuing shares called trills, which would pay a dividend each year equal to a trillionth of that year s GDP, in domestic currency.

Under direction of Chief of Finance, administers the mission apos s U.S. dollar account and other local currency accounts, attends to banking matters on behalf of the mission, and other related duties.

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They have also paid back a significant share of external debt and converted much of what remains into more manageable local currency liabilities.

The Bank should be able to work with them in the absence of sovereign guarantees, and increase its loan offerings in local currencies, since these partners cannot afford currency risk. To further crowd in the private sector, insurance and guarantees can help.

Provision is made for a daily allowance for incidental personal expenses to be paid to up to 1,273 military personnel for a total of 207,698 troop days at a rate of 1.28 per troop per day, payable in local currency.

United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has already accused China of currency manipulation.

National narratives are, indeed, a type of currency.

The Battle of the Bonds

In this context, IMF has been advising developing countries to develop domestic bond markets to raise funds through long term fixed interest securities denominated in the local currency as an alternative to borrowing from abroad.

Bond lending involves diversified groups of bond holders, including domestic residents, and can be issued under different jurisdictions.

Bond offering

It is to be noted that in many HIPCs the implementation of the Initiative has not contributed to a real alleviation of the budgetary burden, because debt relief results in a swap of fiscal expenditures in domestic currency.

The new bonds, other than those governed by Argentine law, will include Collective Action Clauses (CACs).

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3. Takes note of the updated list of hard currency duty stations for which the allowances are specified in local currency, as contained in annex VIII to the report of the Commission Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty fifth Session, Supplement No. 30 (A 55 30).

Some of the ideas discussed during the consultations include suggestions for mechanisms to mitigate regulatory risk to increase the role of the World Bank and regional development banks in risk mitigation through increasing the leverage for their guarantees and to strengthen local currency lending.

Italy and Greece, in particular, face serious debt issues amid financial market concerns about the possibility of default or their leaving the euro zone.

The US Treasury has been charged by Congress to assess whether China is a currency manipulator.

That was the reason for approaching regional development banks which could provide loans in the local currency, unlike the World Bank whose lending was denominated in dollars, which might expose some countries to the risks of exchange rate fluctuations.

When the East Bloc unraveled, India had to start paying for imports in hard cash.

A higher foreign currency LDR will mean tighter restrictions on long renminbi positions.

Argentina adopted the hardest peg, introducing a quasi currency board and fixing the exchange rate by law.

Policies to support municipalities with a good financial standing and favourable credit rating that have tried to meet some of their investment needs by tapping local bond markets could yield good results.

Indeed, not even the risk of receiving nothing ensures that bondholders will not revert to the old bonds.

For example, the Republic of Korea has undertaken measures to encourage the issuance of bonds by SMEs.10 One objective of the Asian bond market initiative11 is to increase bond financing options for smaller companies in Asia.