But here, as elsewhere, the record of private sector credit assessments should leave one wary.

With credit markets impaired, the Fed could buy more government bonds or private sector debt.

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

Governments should encourage the banking sector to provide credit to SMEs, for example through fiscal incentives.

The US has recognized that only using the credit of the state to the fullest extent possible can reverse the collapse of credit in the private sector.

The government is using a variety of instruments, including financial sector credit discipline, to rein in investment demand.

The agricultural sector presently represent 21 of absorption of the total credit made available to the Mozambican economy.

A combination of financial sector recapitalization and rapid expansion of the Fed s balance sheet prevented a complete credit lockup.

Let s not forget the essays in central banks stability reports on how credit derivatives were benefiting the financial sector.

As land is the major asset used as collateral to obtain rural credit, women have limited access to credit facilities.6 Withdrawal of credit provided by the Government in rural areas as the result of an increased liberalization and privatization of the financial sector can make access to credit even more difficult for women.

The private sector has typically stayed out, owing to long cost recovery periods, small market size, and lack of consumer credit.

A number of constraints prevent informal sector enterprises from achieving their full potential, including inadequate access to credit and financial resources.

Meanwhile, prolonged low interest rates contributed to a chase for yield in the financial sector that resulted in disregard of credit risk.

The first round of fiscal stimulus, supported by credit easing, led local governments and the financial sector to increase their leverage ratios.

The government is using a variety of instruments, including financial sector credit discipline, to rein in investment demand. Essentially, the government guarantee associated with financing public sector investment is being withdrawn as it should be.

Generally adhering to global standards in the transparency of financial policies and banking supervision, the financial sector provides ample access to credit for entrepreneurs.

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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.

Thus, the emerging emphasis on recapitalizing the banking system and more recently, on unorthodox policies, including the purchase of private sector credit securities is correct.

SMEs in the distribution sector have difficulty in securing credit because of their organizational weaknesses, and also because they are not deemed to be creditworthy.

Indeed, just as microeconomic problems in the financial sector triggered a credit crunch and fueled a global recession, so microeconomic factors hold the key to recovery.

Many economies need to fix the financial sector and restore credit, while many more need to raise productivity in order to boost growth and create jobs.

By pumping in whatever liquidity the financial sector needs to alleviate the credit crunch, the ECB is effectively maintaining a deflationary bias for the financial sector, whereas it has announced an inflationary bias for the rest of the economy.

But with the current regimen of credit austerity, imposed to contain economic overheating and inflationary pressure, making conditions for SMEs worse, the financial sector the least reformed sector in China now is suffocating the beating heart of the country s economic dynamism.

Governments and central banks are responding to damaged balance sheets and credit lockups in an attempt to limit extreme harm to their economies outside the financial sector.

The Monterrey Consensus emphasized the role of microfinance and credit for small and medium sized enterprises in enhancing the social and economic impact of the financial sector.

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA The current credit crisis has led to scaled back projections for growth around the world. Governments and central banks are responding to damaged balance sheets and credit lockups in an attempt to limit extreme harm to their economies outside the financial sector.

While the US banking sector is similarly concentrated, it has far more financial institutions roughly 18,000 commercial banks, savings and locals associations, mutual savings banks, and credit unions, compared to only around 400 commercial banks and 3,000 rural credit unions and township banks in China.

14.14 In the non formal education sector, many training opportunities are available by religious organizations, NGOs, statutory organizations such as the Credit Unions, Chamber of Commerce and individuals.

The banking sector provides little in the way of financing for women's enterprises and, when it does so, funding is generally advanced through a domiciliary line of credit.

The Asian Development Bank is working on innovative mechanisms to bring more finance to the infrastructure sector, such as the recent partial credit guarantee facility set up by India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited in collaboration with the ADB. By boosting the credit ratings of infrastructure projects via credit enhancements, this facility will allow pension funds and insurers to invest in infrastructure projects.

In recent years, the central government has tightened its control over the banking sector, undermining the financial system s development, not least by impeding banks ability to assess credit risk.

After the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, interest rates plummeted, fueling private sector credit booms in many of the largest emerging markets, including Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey.

Had emerging economies resisted the temptation of excessive private sector credit growth, raising interest rates in order to stabilize currencies would not pose a severe threat to economic performance.

Another 1.5 trillion is needed to bring banks capital back to pre crisis level, which is needed to resolve the credit crunch and restore lending to the private sector.

Bilateral donors also take account of projects established with the government and NGOs for promoting the private sector, and they help women arrange lines of credit with the banks.

The Government attached great importance to private sector development of agricultural markets, rural microfinance institutions and domestic credit markets, improvement of land tenure security and expansion of transport links.

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public provision of credit to the solvent parts of the corporate sector in order to avoid a short term debt refinancing crisis for solvent but illiquid corporations and small businesses

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The World Bank and regional development banks should be encouraged to incorporate gender equality criteria into their eligibility criteria for loans and credit to emerging market governments and private sector corporations.