Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.

Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

To help these domestic powerhouses increase their market leverage, the government often favors them at the expense of foreign competitors.

Indeed, it has almost furtively initiated dam projects to reengineer cross border river flows and increase its leverage over its neighbors.

Recently, UN Habitat has embarked on the following strategic partnerships to increase the impact of the Programme and leverage its resources

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

Its objective is to explore new kinds of relationships with NGOs that will leverage mutual strengths and complementarities to increase impact and sustainability.

The increase in leverage was driven in part by government policies aimed at expanding home ownership among lower income groups that have proven unable to afford that life style.

Mexico, for example, recently adopted ahead of schedule the changes in capital requirements for banks recommended by the Third Basel Accord (Basel III), in order to reduce leverage and increase stability.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Leverage is down sharply.

Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.

Europe is not without leverage.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

The EU has even more leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

But offsetting fiscal austerity with ultra easy monetary policies risks fueling a resurgence of private leverage in advanced economies and already has produced the dangerous spillover of rising leverage in emerging economies.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.

And limits on financial institutions leverage will change only in the next decade.

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.

There are many reasons for the underpricing of risk and the rise in leverage.

The West in general, and the United States in particular, has little influence or real leverage.

It is unrealistic to call for an end to Russian gas imports, or even an end to Europe s major reliance on them, but the EU can increase its own leverage by developing alternative sources of supply.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

The presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, and the international community in general, also exerted leverage.

So what we are asking in the lab is, how can we leverage that power?

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

With time, they could leverage retained earnings, increasing their lending potential without additional paid in capital.

It was, at that time and for over 17 years, the largest leverage buyout in history.

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.

Booms have similar characteristics strong growth in banks balance sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in leverage.

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.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

Some of the ideas discussed during the consultations include suggestions for mechanisms to mitigate regulatory risk to increase the role of the World Bank and regional development banks in risk mitigation through increasing the leverage for their guarantees and to strengthen local currency lending.

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

In theory, all of these factors are potential sources of leverage for outside powers like the US.

In other words, we should leverage imbalances of one kind to redress imbalances of the other kind.

In other words, the Fed will use regulatory instruments to control credit growth, risk taking, and leverage.