The residents sector accounts for an increasing share of the total debt in the real economy, and the leverage ratio has risen rapidly.

One is leverage.

Both lenders and borrowers would be better off from a comprehensive debt cancelation. So would citizens whose livelihoods are being destroyed by governments desperate attempts to de leverage.

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Capacity to leverage resources for development

This confers on them a funding advantage and completely distorts markets. These subsidies are dangerous they encourage excessive risk taking and very high leverage meaning a lot of debt relative to equity for each bank and far too much debt relative to the economy as a whole.

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

Financial institutions need to enhance pre lending screening and post borrowing monitoring. It is also problematic that, in many countries, debt receives advantageous tax treatment, which favors leverage over equity and profit loss sharing arrangements.

It's very cheap. We have a lot of leverage.

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

The fundamental problems that triggered alarm bells in the first place including real estate bubbles, local government debt, rapid growth in shadow banking activity, and rising corporate leverage ratios remain unresolved. Of these, the most immediate threat to China s economic and financial stability is the combination of high borrowing costs, low profitability for nonfinancial corporations, and very high corporate leverage ratios.

Leverage has undoubtedly increased at unsustainable rates in recent years. But, given that debt growth began from a low base, it will not necessarily lead to a crisis as long as appropriate risk management is in place.

Financial booms provide collateral that supports debt financed spending. Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.

There, unprecedented leverage, massive debt creation, and a seemingly infinite sense of credit entitlement prevailed. Financial excesses become the rule rather than the exception, facilitated by financial innovation and the erosion of lending standards and prudential regulation.

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Leverage the combination of product innovation and the UNICEF brand.

The crisis started with too much private debt and leverage, which became public debt and deficits as crisis and recession triggered fiscal deterioration and private losses were mostly socialized via bailouts of financial systems. Then, distressed sovereigns that had already lost market access Greece and Ireland were bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.

LONDON The Great Recession of 2008 2009 was triggered by excessive debt accumulation and leverage on the part of households, financial institutions, and even the corporate sector in many advanced economies. While there is much talk about de leveraging as the crisis wanes, the reality is that private sector debt ratios have stabilized at very high levels.

Indeed, history suggests that severe recession and socialization of private losses often lead to an unsustainable build up of public debt. Moreover, financial crises triggered by excessive debt and leverage in the private sector are followed after a few years by sovereign defaults and or high inflation to wipe out the real value of public debts.

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The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary leverage.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times leverage.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

Terrorists have always sought leverage to penetrate international power and influence.

The resulting increase in the national debt is the price that we and future generations will pay for the mistakes that created the current economic situation. Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

Debt sustainability and debt relief

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We're using whatever leverage we have to bring them to the table.

And those three together, I think, give you leverage in the world.

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It's because there's a little more leverage in terms of the Chinese.

UNDP will also review opportunities to leverage unused PeopleSoft modules (para. 104).

The World Bank has the leverage to impose conditionality for its loans.

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One reason the US recovery is only partial is fiscal drag, a lingering effect of the post 2008 downturn, which shifted some leverage to the public sector, resulting in a growing debt burden that has been addressed controversially so by immediate austerity.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

Most of these new insurers utilize private reinsurance to leverage their capital resources.

That pattern came to a sudden stop in the financial crisis of 2008. Private sector leverage declined and public sector leverage reached and exceeded sustainable limits, with Greece being only the most extreme example.

Making matters worse, China s corporate debt is already the highest in the world, both in absolute terms and relative to GDP. In this context, increasing investment would not only reduce capital efficiency further it would also heighten the risk implied by companies high leverage ratios.

Corporate leverage in China rose from 2.4 times equity in 2007 to 3.5 times last year well above American and European levels. Nearly half of this debt matures within one year, even though much of it is being used to finance multi year infrastructure projects.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

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They strengthen resource mobilization efforts by enabling UNDP to leverage larger non core programmes.