Pooling regional reserves as a way of making them go further is a better alternative.

The agreements that govern the pooling and exchange of intelligence among these governments remain closely guarded secrets.

The African Union is now aiming at pooling all the continent s currencies into a single currency by 2028.

Today, however, emerging countries increasingly prefer to self insure by accumulating reserves (and sharing them through regional pooling arrangements).

The fuel rods in the reactor vessel started to melt, eventually pooling on the bottom of the reactor vessel.

That is why, long ago, European countries saw the sense in pooling their weight and reach through the European Union.

This suggests a golden opportunity for Europe to make a virtue of necessity by pooling its access to much cheaper IMF funding.

Contrast this current condition of extended misery with the only sensible long term solution a pooling of IMF quotas by all eurozone countries.

Potential borrowers have been accumulating massive reserves and pooling them regionally to protect themselves against shocks and speculative capital, but not at the Fund s urging.

Calls for pooling European efforts have been many, based on the conviction that only in this way can European governments play a more effective international role.

Calls for pooling European efforts have been many, based on the conviction that only in this way can European governments play a more effective international role.

This was inevitable from the outset, owing to Britain s deep and irreconcilable disagreement with virtually all other EU member states on the fundamental issue of pooling sovereignty.

This was made clear in the preamble to the Treaty of Rome more than 40 years ago ...pooling their resources to preserve and strengthen peace and liberty.... .

To be sure, consensus, compromise, and a pooling of sovereignty are the only ways to resolve many of the great issues climate change, nuclear proliferation that bedevil our world.

Pooling together their meager resources they helped one another start small businesses and through their trial and error they started discovering that they could do much more than they had thought.

At first glance, much of Europe s current debate is about political and economic integration about how far its nation states should go in pooling resources and sovereign powers in the European Union.

Private health insurance would make such excessive saving unnecessary by pooling relatively small premiums from individuals or from their employers and then paying out to those who are hit with large medical bills.

WASHINGTON D.C. Until recently, the International Monetary Fund s main job was lending to countries with balance of payment problems. Today, however, emerging countries increasingly prefer to self insure by accumulating reserves (and sharing them through regional pooling arrangements).

This pooling function would be particularly important in cases where there are different grades or varieties of the product (as with oil or coffee), and where prices can diverge enough to make an important difference to the exporters.

There were women with blood spattered shalwar kameez, one of them pregnant, another staring blankly at the ceiling men with tattered, bloody clothes and a little kid moaning in pain, blood pooling where his legs should have been.

Those with a sense of history will also see the significance of Europe s nation states, which not long ago fought each other continuously, now pooling their foreign policies in order to assert them more vigorously on the global stage.

The implication is that potential borrowers are not absorbing as many imports as they could and not relying, as they should, on the multilateral pooling of reserves that the Fund is meant to use to give confidence to its members.

By pooling financial resources into a single donor FCM, aid programs administrative costs could be kept low, the availability of aid flows could be assured, and poor countries would not have to negotiate 25 times in order to receive help.

Potential borrowers have been accumulating massive reserves and pooling them regionally to protect themselves against shocks and speculative capital, but not at the Fund s urging. On the contrary, accumulating reserves beyond a certain threshold carries a high opportunity cost and suggests the need to let the currency appreciate.

If the Bank lends to multiple oil exporting countries, the market for oil bonds that it creates would be that much larger and more liquid. This pooling function would be particularly important in cases where there are different grades or varieties of the product (as with oil or coffee), and where prices can diverge enough to make an important difference to the exporters.

Because no European state can afford to go it alone, military reform demands greater integration and information sharing, as control of information will be key in future conflicts. Pooling of infrastructure (bases and ports) and logistical assets (transport), including training facilities for common equipment, will generate big savings, as individual countries rationalize the long logistical tails of manpower and equipment that support armies in the field.