Nor would these economies gain as directly as the island financial centres would do from lower world interest rates.
For dollar-denominated debt (such as United States Treasury bonds and mortgages), adjust world interest rates for changes in U.S. inflation.
But before the financial crisis took world interest rates to record lows, Japan was the cheapest place to borrow money.
Its timing was awful: World interest rates were on the rise.
When other world interest rates fell, carry trade investors bought back yen in order to repay their Japanese debts - and those purchases sent the yen higher.
As expat Canadian Sandra Yuck, who owns the exquisite Lao crafts store Caruso Lao, observes, big developments are coming to this little town, now the focus of so much world interest.
Nonetheless there is a clear sign that as the movie makes its way around the world interest in the inner dealings of Facebook are provoking people to go find out the truth, if they can.
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Of course, in a zero interest rate world where interest returns have dropped close to traditionally low Japanese levels in the U.S. and elsewhere, Japan at present does not have much of a competitive disadvantage.
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Others state an inevitable rise in interest rates, as many central banks around the world have interest rates artificially low, let alone the real interest rate close to negative.
Around the world, interest is growing in bottom-up solutions where companies, government at all levels, and other constituents (such as NGOs and development banks) work to solve specific sustainability problems.
"We had interest from all over the world, including interest from people who don't play or even own golf clubs, " said Sotheby's vice president and auctioneer Lee Dunbar.
And so it's in our economic interest and I think it's in the world's interest that we encourage free and fair trade.
Ferrovial's shares have lagged the Madrid stockmarket since the deal, as worries about its level of gearing in a world of rising interest rates are compounded by the reputational risk of running the world's most-loathed airport.
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But a chance meeting with Paul Weir rekindled Docherty's interest after the ex-dual world champion expressed an interest in working with him.
From a different perspective, the world has an interest in Cambodia's parliamentary elections in July.
Yang added that there has been intense world-wide interest in so-called polymer solar cells.
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Indeed, the entire world has an interest in preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
And as yield-sensitive investments, MLPs are a no-brainer in a world of zero interest rates.
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Opponents (never mind ordinary Indonesians) had little power to make demands, neighbors had little incentive and world leaders little interest.
The two regions of the world of most interest to military planners are quite dissimilar and really require different force structures.
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The global recession only nicked Australia and, in a show of strength, Oz led the world in raising interest rates last year.
The world's interest in Ireland is not confined to its rags-to-riches story.
And because of the arbitrage that exists on a very sophisticated level throughout the world, the interest rates and the availability of funds are not materially different abroad than here.
It is hoped by Ricardians (yes, the small but vocal band of Richard III's supporters have a sobriquet) that the world-wide interest in his disinterment by Leicester University archaeologists will focus attention on his reputation.
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Under this doctrine there is a neat intersection between the desire of shareholders for a better world and their interest in corporate success, and reward flows to those companies that are most successful at balancing the needs of different stakeholders.
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But since European governing body UEFA altered the format in 1992, and renamed the competition 'the Champions League' to also incorporate second, third and, in some cases, fourth placed terms from their respective domestic leagues, the world-wide interest, profile and TV revenue the competition generates has reached new and unparallelled heights.
It comes as no surprise that commodity prices are highly volatile, but researchers at FuelQuest have shown the exponential increase in wild price swings started in 2004, when electronic trading proliferated and hedge funds and other market players jumped in the market looking for bigger returns in a world of low interest rates.
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Mr Serra likes to say that Brazil holds three negative world records: it has the highest interest rates in the world, the heaviest tax burden of any emerging country and one of the lowest rates of public investment.
And I assert and I affirm that we will not give up on this endeavor ahead of us, because it is in our interest, it in the interest of Israel, in the interest of the world, and also, most of all, in the interest of the United States.
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