a. avoid destabilising capital flows to maximise benefits from globalised capital markets, thereby minimising risk

Her human capital was no match for his financial capital.

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

The resulting perception that currency risk was declining bolstered capital inflows further.

As a result, financial markets, which are supposed to manage risk and allocate capital efficiently, created risk and misallocated wildly.

Rather than holding an investment in our bodies, we re all at risk of becoming capital my body, but somebody else s capital.

This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

The fund's objectives, typically, are those of (a) maximizing risk adjusted returns, (b) security of capital and (c) liquidity, and their respective attitudes to risk.

A number of risk factors were identified, including failure, the loss of capital or closure and the risk of being taken over by foreign firms.

This requires increased investment in innovation and human capital.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

The banks can report record profits without much risk, rebuild capital, and pay dividends and bonuses.

While the right policies cannot eliminate risk, they can ameliorate the cost benefit tradeoff from capital flows.

Proceeding with capital injections before the single supervisor is in place would only encourage more risk taking.

These trends imply an increased probability that the market is underestimating risk, so systemic risk regulators should raise minimum capital requirements as soon as they spot them.

Education. China has taken enormous strides in building human capital.

They generate more investment in human capital health and education.

And, indeed, human capital policy is now much in fashion.

Human capital management is sometimes used synonymously with HR, although human capital typically refers to a more narrow view of human resources i.e., the knowledge the individuals embody and can contribute to an organization.

That means increasing capital and human capital intensity across both the tradable and non tradable sectors of the economy.

Indeed, ignorance about what is actually at risk makes debates about the right formula for capital buffers surreal.

A bloated and dysfunctional financial system had misallocated capital and, rather than managing risk, had actually created it.

Although high growth requires large scale capital formation, the relation between investment in real capital assets and human capital in China seems to be out of proportion.

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.

The problem here is that these measures implicitly assume that risk declines when markets are doing well they demand less capital during calm periods and more capital during volatile periods.

Since high risk premiums on government bonds endanger the capital adequacy of banks, half a solution is not enough.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

The third risk is that rising oil prices reduce investor confidence and increase risk aversion, leading to stock market corrections that have negative wealth effects on consumption and capital spending.

The risk assessment concluded that human exposure to chrysotile is associated with an excess risk of asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma.

Perceptions of such divergences force considerable risk premiums on problem countries, inevitably resulting in accelerating capital flight to safe havens.

When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk.

Sharp rises in sovereign, corporate, and interbank liquidity spreads will increase the cost of capital, and increases in risk aversion, volatility, and sovereign risk will undermine business, investor, and consumer confidence further.

But the worst effects were on our human capital, our most precious resource.

Moreover, if financial institutions follow their own risk assessments when estimating appropriate capital cushions, the costs associated with such provisions decline.

Foreign participation in the financial sector brings expertise needed to provide more efficient savings instruments, risk management, and allocation of capital.

The discount rate used is generally the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC), that reflects the risk of the cashflows.

Rising incomes require rising productivity. That means increasing capital and human capital intensity across both the tradable and non tradable sectors of the economy.

Human societies have to live with the risk of hazards posed by nature.

Indeed, ignorance about what is actually at risk makes debates about the right formula for capital buffers surreal. Moreover, the use of mechanistic rules to determine capital adequacy has also inadvertently encouraged systemic imprudence.

They will be replaced by sectors that rely more on technology and human capital.

Moreover, making the transition requires investments in human capital that individuals often cannot afford.

When economists examine human capital, they prefer measurable criteria such as years of schooling.

In most developing countries, financial service providers are not yet in a position to use modern credit risk management techniques to assess borrowers' risk and thus competitively provide capital, particularly trade finance, to enterprises.

From a regulator s perspective, this is a powerful argument for requiring higher capital to constrain the risk that banks can take on.

The proposed Basel III regulations set wholly insufficient minimum capital requirements and maintain a failed approach to adjusting the requirements to risk.