There's something for everyone in new research from the International Monetary Fund today on the damage done to government balance sheets by the great financial crisis of 2008-9.
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And since these studies largely echo the findings of recent research by the International Monetary Fund, we may have reached a point where even the establishment finally understands that government is too big.
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Research by the International Monetary Fund suggests that, if average inflation targets are set below 2%, then there is a marked increase in the risk that interest rates will hit zero and that deflation may occur.
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He also proposed the creation of an international fund to finance research into clean-energy technology, announcing that U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would coordinate the effort and would be in touch with other governments soon about moving forward.
They sought the answer (which they published in an August 2012 paper on "fiscal consolidations" for the National Bureau of Economic Research) by analyzing an International Monetary Fund history of all the fiscal plans that 17 OECD governments enacted between 1978 and 2009, including the U.S., Canada and Japan.
All proceeds from the auction will finance research, organize scientific roundtables and fund International Collaborative Effort (ICE).
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It is my wish that part of the proceeds from the sale will contribute to help fund an international hospital for stem cell research.
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The Karisoke Research Center, operated by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and located in Volcanoes National Park, is the world's most important facility for studying the mountain gorilla.
No wonder international bureaucracies such as the International Monetary fund and European Central Bank are producing research showing that spending discipline is the right approach.
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On average, fees quoted by British funds understate total actual costs by 15%, says Fitzrovia International, a small London-based fund-research outfit that has just compiled the first-ever analysis of such costs in Britain.
At the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Professor Carmen Reinhart and the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Ken Rogoff, are presenting a research paper called Growth in a Time of Debt.
That position was consolidated by the disbursement in July of more than a quarter of a billion dollars for research into a vaccine, and of half a billion to the main international anti-AIDS organisation, the Global Fund.
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