That issue is fraught with notions of equity that will be impossible to resolve before Paris, and perhaps ever.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality underlines the need of handling the gender equality issue in terms of equity, not discrimination.

These debentures should be designed to create a strong incentive for bank managers and shareholders to issue equity rather than suffer conversion.

The main issue does not appear to be equity of distribution but the limited resources available for providing healthcare to the population.

Equity, on the other hand, was a much more flexible construct, often linked to the issue of social justice and subject to interpretation.

The bankers retort that they must pay a higher return on any additional equity that they issue, so that more equity would increase their cost of capital, forcing them to raise interest rates on the loans they make, which would reduce economic activity.

Ms. Tavares da Silva said that she wished to return to the issue of equality versus equity, which was more than just a question of terminology.

At issue before the Supreme Court of Canada was whether the Newfoundland government, by postponing pay equity payments, was violating equality rights of section 15 of the Charter.

Start with equity.

In Syndicat de la fonction publique du Québec v. Québec (Attorney General), the Superior Court of Québec had to deal with the issue pay equity between men and women.

Ms. Wahlstrom stressed the challenge of the return of Burundians to their communities of origin and stated that, in this context, the issue of equity in assistance was essential.

When we address the crucial issue of the reform of the United Nations system, we must be guided by the principles of democracy, equity, justice and fairness for all.

i. Gender Equity Policy

Promoting greater gender equity.

Finally, solvency rules should be complemented by an obligation that banks issue a substantial amount of non collateralized debt on the order of 100 of their capital that is convertible into equity.

Taming the Private Equity Locusts

Employment equity and workplace diversity

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

The theory of debt overhang the intellectual origin of the proposal explains why troubled banks are reluctant to issue new equity the benefits accrue mostly to the bank s bondholders and dilute existing shareholders.

Higher equity capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.

Subprogramme 4 Social development and equity

As a further enhancement to the Australian Government's equity provisions for higher education students, the Higher Education Equity Support Programme was introduced in 2005 following a review of higher education equity measures under the reforms.

The SDGs will have climate change not as an add on, but as a core issue, because of its wide ranging effects on issues from water scarcity to agricultural productivity, gender equity and human migration.

Increase of access to education and equity

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

Indeed, if, as some believe, only a fraction of the banks equity is at risk, the potential debt equity swaps would be minuscule.

The fashionable idea of allowing banks to issue contingent capital (debt that becomes equity in a systemic crisis) is no more credible than the idea of committing to punish banks severely in the event of a crisis.

The Pay Equity Act was adopted in 1996.

Equity in the Schools Project 1998 1.1 billion.

Development in equity and democracy is the formula.

Equity interest the Equity interest, which shall take effect at the time the applicant applies for a contract for exploitation, shall include the following

Under Chapter 11, companies with a solid underlying business generally swap debt for equity. Old equity holders are wiped out and old debt claims are transformed into equity claims in the new entity which continues operating with a new capital structure.

Regulators might consider imposing pro cyclical equity requirements increasing the equity percentage in boom times in order to offset losses in the inevitable bust times.

Banks often oppose higher equity asset ratios, because equity capital is more expensive than debt capital. But this is precisely because of the lemon effect.

(c) Good governance and equity at the international level

Many countries tax systems hugely favor debt over equity.

Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.

Special communiqué on violence against women and gender equity

Special communiqué on violence against women and gender equity

Tina Ilo Assistant Equity Officer, Department of Strategic Management

To effect these plans, an Equity Desk was established under the Department of Strategic Management and a Social Equity Task Force with representatives from both Government and civil society organizations were appointed to monitor the development and implementation of the Gender Equity Policy.

In addition, regulators should require banks to issue an additional amount of capital say, 10 in the form of long term debt that is forced to convert into equity if the bank and the overall banking system get into financial difficulty.

The critics arguments about the benefits of equity are equally unsatisfying. Of course, given a set of bank assets, more equity would reduce the risk of failure.

This form of financing is often used by private equity investors to reduce the amount of equity capital required to finance a leveraged buyout or major expansion.

Equity owners in banks should not get a free ride.