Neil's right that surplus countries lend their excess capital to us to invest as we see fit.
This corresponds to a 50% excess in countries with higher vs. lower rates and corresponds to a 3 percentage-point absolute difference (Fig. 1).
Of course, Washington will (and already is) use its political clout to muscle the excess-reserve countries into going through the IMF.
We like to think of New Orleans as a hearth, a seat of celebration, music, food, excess — the country's id, its soul.
We don't need all of the excess many western countries indulge in to feel happy.
Oil marketers buy more than they need, and sell the excess to neighbouring countries.
Despite its association with periods of speculative excess, many other countries envy the Silicon Valley-Wall Street model of financing innovation.
Dr. Khan started in the mid-1980's, according to nuclear proliferation experts, by ordering twice the number of parts the Pakistani nuclear program needed, and then selling the excess to other countries, notably Iran.
Without weak currencies, which reflected excess money creation, countries like Greece could never have gone on their borrowing benders.
In Table 4, while there is little change over time in sex ratio of infant mortality or child mortality in most countries, excess female child mortality can be found notably concentrated at various periods of time in Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, Western Africa Beninin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Senegal and Middle Africaa (Cameroon, Congo).
