The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

With little incentive to manufacture structured investment vehicles, few Spanish banks created them, thereby avoiding excessive leverage.

One is that, facing declining growth, policymakers will resort to excess investment or leverage (or both), creating instability.

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

An investment in youth is an investment in the future.

Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.

The MDBs have been able to leverage large flows of private investment by mitigating risks and developing the capacity of domestic financial institutions.

These measures also contribute to more efficient use of ODA, which can in turn further leverage foreign direct investment, trade and domestic resources.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

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.

This could involve a combination of targeting the sanitation needs of the poor and increasing support for hygiene education, which can leverage domestic sanitation demand and investment.

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

Lehman was an investment bank.

Leverage is down sharply.

Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

If the Millennium Development Goals are to be met, an environment conducive to expanded employment must be created either by an investment growth nexus or by a redistribution of scarce resources. Otherwise, the combined leverage of the Goals will not help to reduce poverty and hunger as stated under Goal 1.

Europe is not without leverage.

Donors should leverage aid to grow the pie and to diversify financing sources for the world s poorest countries by providing risk guarantees, innovative investment vehicles, debt syndication, and co financing arrangements.

This is clearly an extremely sound investment.

Such over investment produces an inevitable collapse.

True enough, interest rates were falling, though not as fast as the fall in expected profit on new investment. So, even in the so called boom years, most Western economies were kept afloat not by new investment, but by asset bubbles based on increasingly unsustainable leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

UNDP intends to leverage its investment in corporate initiatives such as its Enterprise Resource Planning (Atlas system) to progressively link financial resources to defined outcomes for results based reporting within the RBM framework.

The key to successful increased investment in water infrastructure is an equally increased investment in water institutions.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

If China runs an investment income deficit with net assets of almost 2 trillion, how will it make the transition to an investment income surplus?

An education investment bank is the place to start.

It required an investment of about USD 40 million.

The growing trend towards South South investment flows would also lead to an increase in South South investment disputes.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

All told, these various initiatives are likely to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the coming decade, speeding growth in the counterpart countries while deepening their production, trade, and financial linkages with China.

The panellist from Pakistan gave an overview of his country's investment climate, pointing to sectors in which investment had occurred and those in which more investment was needed.

An enlarged European Investment Bank could then co finance investments.

The Provident Fund loans are not considered an investment asset.

As an organ of the EU, the EIB should be pursuing an ethical investment policy.

In Djibouti, the installation of the Investment Gateway, which is an Internet based interactive platform for investment promotion, is under way.

An emphasis on investment shifts the focus of development strategy to the entrepreneurial class and its interaction with the state, including whether and how public investment crowds in private investment.

As a result, Syria is most likely to become an arena in which regional powers, with the backing of interested outsiders, compete for leverage.

The treaty was an instrumental tool for the Soviet Union to gain political leverage in the internal affairs of Finland in post war era.

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 estimated requirement for training ( 268,800) represents an increase of 64,600, reflecting an increase in staff and the need for the staff of the Investment Management Service to stay current in an ever changing investment environment.

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