Raising capital is expensive.

Since raising capital is difficult and costly, they deleverage by lending less.

But that is not because banks prepared themselves by raising more capital.

WASHINGTON, DC European leaders are convinced that bank capital is expensive, in the sense that raising capital requirements would slow economic growth.

The fund raising efforts of the Institute constitute an ongoing activity.

Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

Even firms in established industries such as energy report facing great difficulties in raising capital.

Doing so will require maintaining some capital account control, while raising interest rates to market clearing levels.

If they try to clamp down by raising domestic interest rates, they will only attract greater capital inflows.

The problem is that for poor economies, raising the capital needed to relax binding growth constraints is difficult.

(l) To encourage the efforts of the media to engage in awareness raising campaigns

(f) To encourage the efforts of the media to engage in awareness raising campaigns

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.

Second, many argue that raising interest rates would trigger a flood of speculative capital from low yielding advanced economies.

The secretariat has therefore made efforts to improve and streamline its supplementary fund raising activities.

Secondly, the international community should enhance its efforts aimed at raising awareness and at prevention.

Despite special fund raising efforts, funding to finance training activities in Nairobi could not be secured.

A further option would be to enhance the revenue raising powers of local authorities and their capacity to access capital markets.

The Commissioner General's fund raising efforts should continue and a broader base of donors should be sought.

OIOS is of the view that UN Habitat has not adequately defined its corporate role in raising domestic capital for the Facility.

Intensive fund raising efforts had mobilized significant resources from key partners, but more such efforts were required for effective UNGEI partnerships at country and regional levels.

Furthermore, by raising regulatory capital costs in boom times, some counterweight to the pro cyclical bias intrinsic to financial systems would be introduced.

In order to further assist such efforts, the Office of the High Representative should actively pursue its fund raising activities.

A well capitalized World Bank leverages all its shareholders investments by pooling them and then raising five times the capital by borrowing in financial markets.

Research efforts are aimed not only at raising the productivity of cropping systems but also at ensuring the sustainability of agriculture.

Efforts have been made to increase minority employment in the revenue raising institutions and make them more accessible to minority communities.

But Europe s track record does not inspire confidence that the next round of tests will be much more rigorous than the last. Raising capital is expensive.

Thus, large banks are likely to continue to hold too little capital and to take excessive risks, raising the prospect of renewed bouts of financial instability.

The headquarters team will continue to lead fund raising efforts (together with the Programme Funding Office) targeting both traditional and new donors.

The Millennium Development Goals have been instrumental in raising public support for development issues and in focusing international efforts on measurable results.

(e) To support efforts to reduce capital flight and measures to curb the illicit transfer of funds.

He requested further information on the prevalence of female genital mutilation (question 4) and efforts to eliminate that practice, including through education and awareness raising activities, and on the results of such efforts.

Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low carbon economies.

The success achieved in raising awareness of gender issues and the sustained efforts for increasing the schooling rate of girls deserve particular attention.

Welcoming the particular efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross in raising awareness of the humanitarian consequences of explosive remnants of war,

Welcoming the particular efforts of various international, non governmental and other organizations in raising awareness of the humanitarian consequences of explosive remnants of war,

Welcoming the particular efforts of various international, non governmental and other organizations in raising awareness of the humanitarian consequences of explosive remnants of war,

Now that the European Banking Authority has finally issued new prudential rules, they can get about the business of raising the capital they need as a buffer against losses.

Besides raising doubts about European leaders competence and solidarity, this crisis jeopardizes the EU s signal achievement, the single market, which ensures freedom of movement for goods, services, capital, and people.

But now Anglo Irish alone may have a capital hole as high as 70 billion, raising serious concerns about the true health of other Irish, Spanish, Greek, and German banks.

Notes with appreciation the efforts of UNCTAD at raising funds, and observes that UNCTAD's fund raising could be enhanced by taking steps to improve the current ad hoc approach to make it into a system that is more coherent, coordinated and cross divisional

Concern was expressed with regard to the observation that there was a general lack of coordination of fund raising efforts by UN Habitat senior officials.

The Committee trusts that the Office will redouble its fund raising efforts to ensure that the required core fund balance of 15 million is met.

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