In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

As a result, by 2010, China s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30 .

But even HSBC, the best capitalized of the lot, has a leverage ratio of only 4.6 , while Barclays ratio is under 3 .

But that simply shifts leverage to the public sector, with any reduction in the ratio of private debt to GDP more than matched by an increase in the public debt ratio witness the Irish and Spanish governments high and rising debt burdens.

That, in turn, indicates a high demographic dependency ratio.

The opposite side of the high absorption GDP ratio is an equally high trade deficit.

In 1972, the sex ratio was still as high as 227.5.

The passenger to crew ratio is also high, at 1.31 to 1.

Economists who insist that China s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

Each crisis hit economy had increased its financial leverage the ratio of domestic credit to GDP by 30 percentage points over five years shortly before their credit bubbles popped.

Such circumstances include, first, a high debt GDP ratio, with rising interest rates impeding growth.

Growth based on high leverage typically proves to be illusory. And yet the illusion continues to entice policymakers.

The eurozone as a whole has a debt to GDP ratio of 90 , which is high by any standard.

In 2003, this ratio dropped to 42 , still a high value, but it reflects the process of population aging.

Although the data on incompletion of school were not available, the data on enrollment from the previous years indicate that the ratio in gender structure of high school graduates matches the ratio upon enrollment.

In theory, bank lenders and the government could anticipate the additional risks they encounter when a company chooses a high leverage strategy.

This recession was caused by a mispricing of risk, leading to excessive leverage and high prices for a wide range of assets.

Also driving China s high investment rate is the declining efficiency of investment capital, reflected in China s high incremental capital output ratio (annual investment divided by annual output growth).

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

A public debt crisis in Japan (as the combination of recession, deflation, and high deficits drove up the debt GDP ratio).

Leverage is down sharply.

Under an international agreement known as Basel III, banks are to be required to hold a higher ratio of equity capital against risk weighted assets, and leverage is to be limited to a smaller percentage of such assets.

And, in the PRA s presentation, this amounts to a leverage ratio of around 3 for most of these banks (again using Basel III definitions), though a couple of banks will need an additional adjustment to reach that level.

The often very high surface area to volume ratio of nanoparticles provides a tremendous driving force for diffusion, especially at elevated temperatures.

Overall pressure ratio is 28.0, with a bypass ratio of 4.66.

Overall pressure ratio is 30.4, with a bypass ratio of 5.15.

The main argument is that high leverage contributes powerfully to systemic risk a condition in which asset prices move in a highly correlated way, and distress, when it occurs, spreads quickly. Leverage is also partially caused by misperceptions of risk and mispricing of liquidity. It is desirable to constrain leverage, but not to the point of increasing the cost of capital and investment.

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The ratio of the two is called the gyromagnetic ratio and is simply the half of the charge to mass ratio.

Europe is not without leverage.

Given that the urbanization ratio is still quite low, at 48 , a relatively high investment in infrastructure may be sustained for a long time.

The percentage of those successfully completing the exams is equally high with the ratio higher among female minors than male minors (57 to 33 ).

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The EU has even more leverage.

Italy s debt to GDP ratio today, at 120 , is as high as it was when the country entered the eurozone in the mid 1990 s.

The student teacher ratio for females at the primary, middle and high school levels was 65 1, 36 1 and 11 1 in 2001 2002.