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

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.

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.

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.

If the financial crisis reveals a structural problem in banking, it is more likely to come from insufficient capital to cushion a bank s fall, or from too many financial institutions having become too big to fail.

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.

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

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

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

Such risks are mitigated by reducing the fixed cost core to a minimum, and through accumulation of capital through large scale, short duration operations to provide an operating reserve to cushion UNOPS against market volatility, make appropriate insurance provisions and facilitate investment in emerging business opportunities.

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.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?

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.

Efratti of From Nation's Capital to Nation's Capital adds

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.

Her human capital was no match for his financial capital.

Its capital, Belgrade, was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.

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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The sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) proposed in the project document as a tool for analysing the success of the project is based on the following set of broad success indicators natural capital, physical capital, social capital, human capital and financial capital.

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.

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