They said they "aspire to achieve a global target of 30% of humanitarian contributions that is non-earmarked or softly earmarked by 2020".
Chart 5 exhibits the beginning of debt deleveraging from the standpoint of annual rates of increase of earmarked versus non-earmarked outstanding loans.
Donor contributions include both earmarked and non-earmarked grants.
The total projected resources for 2014 2017, comprising the categories of regular resources (non-earmarked funds), other resources (earmarked funds) and trust funds, which include opening balances of US$3,083.7 million, amount to US$26,700.7 million.
Some lawmakers are saying one big chunk of the huge package, the $15 billion earmarked for non-military activities, may be especially scrutinized, especially if donations from other countries are only a fraction of that sum.
Much of it was earmarked for non-tax-exempt activities, including lobbying and advertising.
Furthermore, given that banks tend to compensate costs derived from earmarked credit via higher spreads in non-earmarked lending, the relationship between basic interest rates and financial costs became increasingly distorted.
Of course, I don't expect that mindset to hold up forever — GigaOM reported late last year that Apple earmarked $7.1 billion for non-retail capital expenditures in 2012, with the implication that a good chunk of it would go to bolstering the company's cloud operations.
Public funds also should be earmarked to support non-profit organizations such as The Village to Village Network (VtV), whose mission simply is to help seniors to help themselves so that they can remain longer in their homes.
However, the only published inventory shows that nearly half of the trees earmarked for logging may be non-spruce varieties, which have been unaffected by the beetle outbreak.
We see Peculiar features of the credit surge in Chart 2. Notice the rising weight of earmarked bank credit to both non-financial corporations and households from 2008 onwards, including keeping the overall stability of the latter after 2010.
