What China lacked was not demand for consumption goods, but a supply of high quality financial assets.

An increase in fiscal deficits and public debt places negative pressure on financial systems and growth prospects, eroding country creditworthiness.

We are small countries, with small economies that lack fiscal diversity.

The continent lacks the financial resources needed to generate the requisite levels of growth to reduce poverty.

This reinforces the need for the development of e credit information and related e credit rating and scoring techniques in the developing and transition economies.

Third, the Western powers now lack the domestic political consensus and financial resources to advance an international agenda.

Fourth, many cash strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable, owing to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.

In a serious financial crisis, banks find that the declining market value of many of their assets leaves them short of capital.

External information providers offer evidence of creditworthiness, strengthen credit negotiations with banks and reinforce the position of SMEs relative to their competitors and business partners.

The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

With a debt GDP ratio of more than 120 , Italy lacks the flexibility to implement fiscal stimulus to bridge the transition to higher growth.

India is not about to become a second China it lacks both the means and the ambition.

During the 1990 s, private investors looked at big, lumbering central banks as cash cows, long on money and short on financial acumen.

Access to justice for women is lacking.

The financial crisis has not helped improve the image of globalization, which has long been deeply unpopular among ordinary voters in most of the world s advanced countries.

Current owners will resist to the end any dilution of their control and no national authority is likely to admit that their national champions lack a plausible path to financial viability.

They lack organization and strategy.

They also lack a vibrant civil society.

It also lacks any pigmentation in its skin.

The police however lacked basic equipment.

Moreover, the measures as whole usually lack visibility.

Indeed, I consider the EFSF to be a stopgap measure while we remedy the fundamental shortcomings of the Stability and Growth Pact, whose fiscal rules lack both substantive and formal bite.

But political leadership was sorely lacking.

Some states lacked the resources to pay.

This practice is also unwise.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

It lacks support at home and respect abroad.

Unfortunately, the process lacks the necessary transparency and credibility.

Municipalities are lacking qualified solid waste managers.

The border units are not well equipped or resourced, however.

Perhaps the Government lacked the capacity to do so.

Africa needed capital, but lacked savings.

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.

Clearly, Turkey s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.

The key areas of weakness in Europe s financial markets, including undercapitalized banks in core countries, were not addressed, and the system was not able to withstand the second wave of the crisis, triggered by the peripheral countries loss of credibility in financial markets.

It also lacks the means to compel others to follow its lead.

It is clear that modern Russia lacks global status in the Soviet sense.

Even today, donor governments aid efforts are poorly directed.

Allegations that the scheme lacks nutritional value have been disproved.

The court considered that the complainant's allegations lacked any justification .

Proposals to address that matter continue to lack consensus.

Furthermore, some legal instruments lack universality.

Many developing economies weathered the crisis at the cost of massive direct state intervention, while their financial sectors lack breadth and access.

Similarly, NATO s Parliamentary Assembly has announced preparations for NATO accession by such countries as Croatia, Macedonia, and even Albania, all of which fall short of the alliance s traditional membership criteria.