Last week, Amman was considered a drowsy capital removed from the region's violent eddies.
Having a second, risk-adjusted, measure of capital removes that incentive.
Foreign investment has suffered, however, and Lasso, the former head of the Banco de Guayaquil, ran his election campaign on a promise to give multinational businesses more favourable terms, such as abolishing a 5% tax on capital removed from Ecuador.
The infusion of new capital "removes the risk and the uncertainty," Mr. Vinocur said, "and at some point in time, there are going to be opportunities, and these companies will be better positioned to take advantage of them".
The absence of any controls on capital – removed as part of the process of setting up monetary union – meant the trade surpluses generated by the stronger economies were re-cycled into Mediterranean property speculation.
The capitals, removed in 1964, were salvaged by the art dealer Ivan Karp and given to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where they now ornament the walls flanking the south entrance.
The two nations recently held talks in Pyongyang, the North's capital, on removing the Communist North from the list.
Should the Treasury decide to supplement injections of capital by removing troubled assets from institutions' balance sheets, as was initially proposed for the U.S. financial rescue plan, several approaches might be considered.
Conflict has been spreading across Yemen for the last year since Houthi rebels captured the capital Sanaa, removing the Hadi government from control of the state.
Beijing has remained the capital of China except for a brief period (1928 49) when the Nationalist government again made Nanjing the capital (although the capital was removed to Chongqing [Chungking] during World War II); during that time Beijing once again resumed the old name Beiping.
