The whole purpose of finance is to direct savings from one party to be invested with another party.
The boom came to a halt in 1993 when the then Conservative government, worried by the rising cost to the exchequer, stopped providing direct finance for unlimited numbers of places in care homes, and instead gave fixed grants to local councils.
The Lib Dem version is an Infrastructure Bank to direct private finance into new rail services and green energy.
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Partly because of privatisation, foreign direct investment should finance perhaps 60% of the current-account deficit.
Emerging economies have been strikingly successful in raising equity finance in the form of foreign direct investment, which accounted for almost half of the private capital they imported in 2005.
Mr Swinney said the proposals aimed to boost public sector capital investment, improve access to finance, enhance economic security and take direct action to tackle unemployment.
Belgium's Finance Minister, Didier Reynders, says he will soon ask EU finance ministers to consider proposals for a direct EU tax - though he insists this would be "without increasing the overall tax burden" on the citizens of Europe.
But if eurozone finance ministers did not want to become direct shareholders in Cypriot banks, via the ESM, why didn't they replicate what they had done for Spain and simply lend what Cyprus's banks need to the government in Nicosia?
The parade of parvenus is the strange but direct result of federal campaign-finance laws that set limits on the amount of money most candidates can raise from any single donor.
As a consequence of these emergent strengths and India's arrival on the global scene, the nation can no longer look away from the challenges of money and finance that the world faces and which have a direct bearing on India.
Although the reforms so far have created more work for finance departments, as well as higher accounting expenses, the direct impact on executives and directors hasn't been particularly troublesome.
Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister, insists there is no correlation between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI).
That means India needs more foreign capital to finance its government obligations because it is not bringing in enough money from exports or foreign direct investment into the country.
Obama asked members of his National Finance Committee to contribute to Clinton's campaign if they were so inclined, but he did not direct them to do so, the Obama campaign source said Tuesday.
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