The BRICS countries are home to around half of the world s population and the bulk of unexploited economic potential.

The US Defense Department has valued Afghanistan s untapped mineral deposits at 1 trillion.

Credit risk is best hedged through diversification across uncorrelated credits.

In the late 1980s, Grameen started to diversify by attending to underutilized fishing ponds and irrigation pumps like deep tube wells.

Nobel Prize nominee Hernando De Soto recognized that the key to economic liftoff for most developing countries is to tap the vast amounts of uncapitalized land.

Its hypothesis is that there is a great deal of slack in poor countries, so simple changes can make a big difference.

Promoting the investment climate to enable the private sector to realize the opportunities given by the largely unexploited resources in the food processing sector

My best bet is that these countries will maintain rapid growth as they shift their economic focus to their vast and untapped domestic markets.

In the past, to address important financial constraints, the General Conference had frequently suspended the relevant financial regulations and authorized the retention of unutilized balances of appropriation.

The use of unencumbered balances of appropriations due for adjustment to Member States that had fully paid their contributions should be an option open to the Member States concerned.

Such a committee would enable the exploitation of untapped potential of the regional and subregional organizations in the prevention and settlement of conflicts and other important regional problems.

At the beginning of 2007 there were 4,755,100 hectares of utilized agricultural area.

The factors that drove the Putin era of rapid economic growth high and rising oil prices, cheap labor, and unused production capacity are all exhausted.

Furthermore, the PBC uses unconventional instruments from time to time, such as credit ceilings or credit quotas imposed on commercial banks.

Clarifying ultimate responsibility for credit quality and risk would also reduce intermediation costs by eliminating the need to resort to informal channels, such as credit guarantee and trust companies.

With so much underutilized productive capacity today, and with immediate economic prospects so dismal, the risk of serious inflation is minimal.

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Clogged credit pipes With banks balance sheets contracting, too many small and medium size companies are unable to mobilize credit for investment and growth.

He envisions a new regional order under Turkish leadership, based on a realignment between Turks and Kurds that underpins a strategic partnership for exploiting the region s last untapped energy resources.

The banking system of Azerbaijan consists of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, commercial banks and non banking credit organizations.

Ideas such as microcredit and non formal education whose time has surely come have been replicated widely.

Thus, borrowings and repayments are frequent (though not necessarily regular) and the amount of the credit is constantly fluctuating.

He also explained that Puntland was essentially rich in natural resources that were unexploited due to an inability to attract foreign investment, but that, ironically, the coastal waters and fisheries areas were ruthlessly exploited by foreign vessels.

By exploiting a record credit bubble to borrow against an unprecedented property bubble, American consumers spent well beyond their means for many years.

Irresponsible borrowing by governments in international credit markets requires irresponsible lending.

And we all pay dearly for solid waste costs, health problems associated with pollution and more odiously, the cost of imprisoning our young black and Latino men, who possess untold amounts of untapped potential.

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Banks and credit card companies have become much more cautious about extending credit.

Nevertheless, the legacy of the huge contraction in credit is not likely to go away anytime soon.

They were also non governmental mechanisms aimed at ensuring all women had access to credit.

Central banks had to inject an unprecedented amount of money and extend credit on an unprecedented range of securities to a broader range of institutions than ever before.

The supply of credit, in other words, resulted from the demand for credit.

Shorting bonds by purchasing a CDS contract carries limited risk but almost unlimited profit potential, whereas selling a CDS contract offers limited profits but practically unlimited risks.

But they remained underinsured against domestic credit risks the leading threat to emerging economies today.

She has no insurance against erratic weather patterns, gets no subsidies, and has no access to credit.

Credit histories cannot be shared, because a credit bureau is just getting started.

The point at which credit risk becomes exchange rate redenomination risk is ambiguous.

Advocates of austerity counter that confidence in the government s credit might collapse, and the government might have to roll over its debt on unfavorable terms.

This was especially true given that America s credit pipeline remained clogged, with many community and regional banks still in a precarious position.

Assessment of credit programmes in Bangladesh, however, showed that men either significantly or partially controlled the credit women brought into the household and that loans were used for purposes different from the ones applied for.17 Some studies have argued that loans and the pressure to repay have led to stress and to higher levels of domestic violence.18

Otherwise, smaller groups of armed militants supported, or even manipulated, by external actors will dictate Syria s future.

This system of funds allocation, in which employment bureaux assume the role of banks, is not appropriate, for these institutions are not competent in credit analysis and risk assessment.

Credit stopped flowing.

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