It is as if Mexico and Canada sought a Chinese alliance to balance the US in North America.

Balancing the Technocrats

For a relatively poor country like China, real unions could help balance employers power, bringing quality of life benefits that outweigh the growth costs.

I call this environmental arbitrage.

Balancing Asia u0027s Rivals

Balancing the World s Imbalances

Recognizing the limits of US power doesn t mean that America is irrelevant it can stabilize a conflict, help bring about confidence building measures, and negotiate interim agreements.

The US administration, fashionably worried over China s growing regional influence, seems quite happy with a closely tied Japan that could help balance China.

Balancing China s High Savings

Rebalancing the State s Balance Sheet

But, while it is the only Asian democracy able to balance the power of China, the system established after WWII is not best suited to this task.

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

But securitized credit taken off one bank s balance sheet usually ended up on another bank s books.

Household balance sheets are weaker.

Some are reluctant balancers.

These courts have their own budget, which is annexed to the general State budget.

The current crisis has come to be called a balance sheet recession of global scope and tremendous depth and destructive power because of its origins in the balance sheets of the financial and household sectors.

The GHG emissions of COP and subsidiary body sessions can be offset immediately or recorded and offset when an offsetting scheme is agreed upon.

The proposed Union of South American Nations (Unasur), like the South American Defense Council, is part of a Brazilian regional strategy to encourage cooperation within Latin America in order to counterbalance the power of the United States and act as a mediator in regional disagreements.

During Vladimir Putin s presidency, Chinese and Russian troops engaged in joint military maneuvers, and the two countries became dominant powers in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which, to some Western observers, looked like an effort to counterbalance NATO.

If central banks are faced with a massive hit to their balance sheets, it will not necessarily be the end of the world.

So during this time I needed some kind of counterbalance for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings.

As Japan, India, and others try to balance Chinese power, they welcome an American presence.

Emissions offset in voluntary markets for emissions reductions that are not compliant with the Kyoto Protocol.

The bad loans, in turn, have created massive holes in banks balance sheets, which have to be repaired.

The EU budget is an investment vehicle that boosts economic growth and creates jobs.

However, these reserves represent an important hidden asset that lends strength to the Fund s balance sheet.

The true litmus test of budget expenditures is what actually gets delivered.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is balancing his country s books, too, for now.

Since 1992, it has maintained a more or less balanced budget, with hardly any public debt.

However, the risks of long term steroid use have to be weighed in such cases.

The first recorded Participatory Budgeting process in the United States of America is in Chicago, Illinois.

Rebuilding the depleted balance sheets of the banking system is the right way to go.

If markets are opened up, countries should be given the right to countervail American and European subsidies.

Delay has made current account rebalancing via RMB appreciation costly.

Approach The activities for making the subsidiary body and COP sessions climate neutral can be grouped into three main clusters

This year, the UN peacekeeping budget will total 8 billion. Think of what we could save by avoiding conflicts by deploying political mediation missions, for example, rather than troops.

The EU budget leverages investment, allows for economies of scale, and cannot run a deficit.

Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

Of course, Russia cannot seriously consider balancing the US with China, let alone with France.

We have reached a stage where we must balance the call for non proliferation with the need for effective disarmament.

A country can balance its trade either on a trading partner basis in which total money flows between two countries are equalized or it can balance the overall trade and money flows so that a trade deficit with one country is balanced by a trade surplus with another country.

A government that cannot balance its own finances cannot be relied on to provide macroeconomic stability.

France is fully committed to a fiscal consolidation effort that returns it to a balanced budget by 2017.