In recognition of these concerns, negotiating partners needed to seek to extend adequate transitory adjustment support measures to cushion developing countries from anticipated trade shocks.

Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.

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Fortunately, China s relatively strong fiscal and foreign exchange positions can cushion the economy against short term shocks.

With that guarantee broken by Lehman Brothers collapse, every financial institution immediately sought to acquire a much greater capital cushion in order to avoid the need to draw on government support, but found it impossible to do so.

Moreover, the European welfare state will cushion the impact of the economic crash, at least for some time.

Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.

Emerging market policymakers believe that they lack recourse to safety nets that would cushion the impact of volatile flows.

At the time the French government favoured new technology, exploring the production of hovercraft and the Aérotrain air cushion vehicle.

The quality of cut can be inferior if the grass is pushed away from the blade by the cushion of air.

However, to the extent that public investment grows, aggregate demand increases correspondingly, generating some growth and creating a cushion against recession.

We therefore call for fairer rules to govern international business and trade, in particular measures to cushion the impacts of adverse changes.

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It funded the investment imperatives of economic development and boosted the cushion of foreign exchange reserves that has shielded China from external shocks.

In particular, if the firm s equity capital erodes, the government should not provide funds (directly or indirectly) to increase the cushion available to bondholders.

If they are not, assistance could be scaled back to avoid having international funds continue to support corrupt practices.

This breakdown suggests that the 8 trillion cushion would be sufficient to offset potential losses arising from higher risk credit in China s commercial banking sector.

Such an arrangement would provide a cushion to protect investors from potential or unanticipated declines in the expected flow of revenue available for debt servicing.

In a few weeks, we will put in place a social safety net that will cushion the impact of high oil prices on the poor.

Fourth, America s decision to back extremists in Syria contradicts its war on terrorism and will erode international support for it.

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Restrictions on movement and declining donor support, however, required UNRWA to scale back its core emergency interventions, including food aid.

Its core was the belief that the state could provide both stable economic growth and social welfare to cushion the negative side effects of free markets.

Indeed, if official funding were junior, it would be providing a larger cushion to private creditors and thus bailing them out to an even greater extent.

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Too many Americans built no cushion into their budgets, and mortgage companies, focusing on the fees generated by new mortgages, did not encourage them to do so.

Back then, Calderón received broad support, both domestically and from abroad, for what was viewed as a brave, overdue, and necessary decision.

Lloyd George also lost the support of the influential Curzon, who considered that the Prime Minister had been manoeuvring behind his back.

In addition, such insulation discourages the raising of additional capital, inducing executives to run banks with a capital level that provides an inadequate cushion for bondholders and depositors.

They do not have the luxury of cobbling together fiscal stimulus packages or rescuing ailing industries in order to cushion the shock brought about by the economic crisis.

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Reaching the wrong agreement to defuse the austerity bomb, or cushion the economy from its impact, would merely recreate America s long run structural budget deficit a very bad outcome.

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Indeed, even back in 1973, there was substantial support for a non European candidate, Roberto Alemann, the distinguished economist and former Argentine economics minister.

International support is overwhelming, as well as a clear defiance to back Egyptian protesters and make their voices heard despite the total information blackout.

At the end of 2012, China s commercial banks held 6.4 trillion in core capital and 1.5 trillion in non performing loan provisions, for a risk cushion of roughly 8 trillion.

Announcing the abolition of the hukou system might be easy, but it would mean little without institutions that can cushion the risks faced by rural migrant workers in China s cities.

Oil and gas export revenues were being paid into a national fund, to assure sustainable social and economic development and cushion the country against the impact of unfavourable external factors.

Since private debts have a way of turning into public liabilities, a low government debt burden might not, in fact, provide these countries with the cushion that they think they have.

So why did Blair support it? Part of the answer goes back to Blair s first big foreign policy adventure, NATO s intervention in Kosovo in 1999.

Italy's support for UNIDO dated back to the very beginning of the Organization's activities and had continued even during the serious crisis in the 1990s.

However, even for financial systems, there is disagreement about other attributes, such as the ability to provide a financial cushion with which to soften the impact of unexpected economic downturns or turbulence.

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To be sure, Europe gave Obama very little back for his pains, whether in terms of help in Afghanistan or support in stimulating the global economy.