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.

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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Trade focused on the local market and the West, particularly Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Support the creation of applications (or toolkits) that will meet the needs of the local market and lead to the strengthening of local and regional expertise.

The domestic market and a growing middle class will assume greater prominence.

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.

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.

The United Kingdom s domestic market is, after all, much smaller than that of the United States.

Another issue that was raised concerned the effects of TNC operations on the local market structure and the need to safeguard against the crowding out of local companies, products and customs.

First, steel prices on the international market have been more attractive than on the domestic Chinese market (the elimination of the export rebate should reduce the attractiveness of exports).

The exporting arm of the joint venture would deprive the local Zimbabwean market of furniture items.

As an agriculturally based economy, Vanuatu is subject to the fluctuating global market for its produce.

Non EurepGAP compliant suppliers therefore even risk losing domestic market shares.

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.

To empower the domestic market to drive income growth, and to accelerate the growth of the middle class, these numbers need to shift.

First, the country's limited domestic market is a very significant push factor in propelling Singapore enterprises to expand their markets abroad.

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.

New projects are more market driven, with donors focus gradually shifting to building the capacity of domestic regulatory and technical institutions, and to strengthening the position of existing private sector firms to serve the market.

The absence of regulation in the market can be perverse, and suggests that domestic monopolistic behaviour in the wholesale segment by domestic companies could be replaced by foreign monopolies controlling the market.

To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

(a) Wishes to see a thriving domestically supplied United Kingdom biofuel industry develop

Over time, the persistence of these conditions undermined the competitiveness of domestic industry, impeding sales of Brazilian products not only internationally, but also in the robust and growing internal market.

Some factors precluding foreign entry may be related to the size of the domestic market, given the low purchasing capacity of people in general, the weak competitive edge of domestic players and the lack of established physical infrastructure.

They are lucky that hostility to competition in what purports to be the homeland of free market capitalism has kept Asian airlines out of their domestic marketplace.

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

National narratives are, indeed, a type of currency.

All these changes aim to recognize local sensitivities, avoid conflict with local culture, customs, common habits, and enter the local market by merging into its needs and desires.

Indeed, with roughly 130 million middle class consumers, China s domestic market holds significant potential.

In contrast to industrial logging, pit sawing (processing logs using chainsaws) is increasing as the domestic market grows.

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.

It also means a lower value for the dollar, and thus more opportunities for US located firms to export and supply the domestic market.

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.