Services offered to higher risk groups are of lower quality and are less able to deal successfully with any problems that may arise.

Reasons for this include their relatively greater ability to take risks, their better access to finance, and their maturity and readiness to internationalize.

This is so because the latter have a higher capacity not only for taking risks but also for self financing and raising funds in capital markets for investment purposes.

Generally, the more affluent and powerful communities tend to be less vulnerable to the risks of loss of life and livelihoods associated with El Niño than are the poor and weak.

At the same time, however, commercial banks insist on minimizing their exposure to completion, commercial, political or other project risks.

When investors make less risky loans, they require a lower risk premium , thereby reducing the cost of borrowing to the borrower.

Poorer farmers and landless peasants are, in general, not able to take the risks entailed in diversifying their crop.

However, despite compelling evidence that risk reduction efforts are linked to improved opportunities for sustainable development, obtaining funds for capacity building and investment in reducing vulnerability and risk continues to be a challenge.

The system will be fed by multiple data sources and will allow the application of suitable risk and performance models for all asset classes, as well as stressing scenarios.

This principle protects insured persons who, because of their health risks or their family situation, have an extensive benefits claim from having to pay higher contributions than insured persons who have equal earnings but lower risks to be insured.

Lower cost of insurance.

Every person who has one of those filter papers has at least, at a minimum, been through our basic health education about the risks associated with these activities, which presumably, from our perspective, gives them the ability to decrease their own risk, and then obviously the risk to their families, the village, the country, and the world.

So as you can imagine, that's expensive and a little bit dangerous.

The Panel also observes that the EHS relied on over sampling in highly exposed areas within the exposed area.

Corruption risk reduction

They use such data for various purposes to reduce their own exposure to lending or credit risk to judge the entity apos s own exposure to risk to interpret corporate managements apos ability to manage environmental issues and integrate environmental issues into general long term strategic issues and to compare progress between companies and over time.

The comparator s citizens were at political risk because of their association with programmes that were unique to the comparator.

Opacity risk reduction

Attention to risk reduction and prevention strategies can also curb vulnerability to disasters in the long term.

There were significant profit opportunities for financial intermediaries that could find spare risk bearing capacity, carve out securities to take advantage of it, and thus take a middleman s cut from matching risks with investors who could gain from bearing them. But the advent of derivatives concentrated risk rather than dispersing it, for there was even more money to be made by selling risk to people who did not know how to value it or, indeed, what risks they were bearing.

At the other end of the spectrum, for larger firms presence in a variety of industries and markets reduces their exposure to particular risks.

Noting that many migrant women are employed in the informal economy and in less skilled work compared with that of men, which puts those women at greater risk of abuse and exploitation,

It was also observed that the higher ranking suppliers, whose products might be produced on a higher cost basis than those of lower ranking suppliers, might submit unrealistically low prices during the auction itself, and therefore a performance risk might arise.

The risks arising from the volatility of capital, which were currently assumed, for the most part, by recipient countries, must be more widely shared, especially by investors.

One form of reducing the commercial risk to which the project company is exposed may consist in offering the possibility of additional concessions for the provision of ancillary services or the exploitation of other activities.

In Africa, small farmers bear the brunt of this risk.

Even though the younger workforce is ready to work for lower wages, the existing system is not attractive.

Reporter ...battlefield companions are helping to reduce the combat risks.

This would reduce the risk of reliance on only one vendor and would provide some competitiveness.

At most risk are those on the streets, whereas the high class prostitutes are in the least danger.

Those types of insurances are usually available at the commercial insurance markets, although the availability of commercial insurance may be limited for certain force majeure risks (e.g. war, riots, vandalism, earthquakes, hurricanes) which one or more of the parties will need to absorb.

I'm not risking anything.

Privately financed infrastructure projects involve a variety of risks pertaining to the construction and operational phases of the project and which may well exceed the capacity of the project company, the host Government, the lenders or the contractors, to absorb.

Venture capital, which is willing to accept higher risks and does not require collateral from borrowers, may be especially suitable in providing finance for small innovative firms in developing countries.

If you're thinking about people taking too much risk and not understanding how much risk they're taking or taking too little risk, we need to think about that.

(b) those where a relatively low probability exists that pathogens of risk groups 2 or 3 are present.

The project will assist the Investment Management Service in mitigating exposure to various risk factors.

While there is a risk of market failure, it needs to be weighed against the risk of government failure.

It is widely felt that normal market risks, including currency devaluation risk, should be borne by the private sector and that only those factors out of their control, such as regulatory risks and force majeur, should be covered by the public sector.17

The international community must not take the NPT for granted or underestimate the risks to which it was exposed, now more than ever. A concerted effort must therefore be made to make the current Conference a success.

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NEW YORK The world s economic, financial, and geopolitical risks are shifting. Some risks now have a lower probability even if they are not fully extinguished.

Moreover, it is evident that enhanced risk assessment skills, ongoing security training and improved adherence to the minimum operating security standards have instilled greater confidence and capacity to operate safely in areas of higher risk.

This appears to be a low risk activity.

Investing in preparedness and risk reduction