Through the allocation formula approved by the Executive Board, regular resources enable UNICEF to support national capacity development and advocate and leverage wider resources for children.

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

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

(a) Acting as the operational arms of ECA at the country and subregional levels and serving as catalysts to leverage the Commission's resources

The new aid modalities could give the United Nations greater leverage on how resources were used in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals.

Reiterating that the Special Climate Change Fund should serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and other multilateral sources,

Gender budget analysis in State HDRs provided important leverage of resources to promote gender outcomes and mainstream gender into national and State policies and budgets.

(c) Systematic efforts to leverage additional resources and results for children through advocacy and partnerships and by generating evidence to inform decision making.

The strategic partnerships, which include partnerships with youth, are intended to leverage resources and coordinate international programme activities which work towards similar ends.

A further important UNICEF focus will be on working with partners to identify and leverage additional resources for accelerating results and impact for children.

For established businesses, retained earnings are the key source of finance but, beyond this, the need to leverage their own resources requires organizational relations with the banking system.

Leverage is down sharply.

(a) Use advocacy as a tool for the effective promotion of SSC through campaigns, meetings, workshops and seminars to mainstream SSC and to leverage resources of the United Nations system

Europe is not without leverage.

Now we must leverage current scientific opportunities and invest the resources needed to develop more effective, less toxic therapies, thereby improving outcomes for all children with cancer.

UNICEF will expand its work with allies at all levels, focusing on developing partnership frameworks that address specific needs and can leverage resources for scaling up programmes.

The EU has even more leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

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.

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 other is the UN s Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which seeks to leverage the private sector s wealth of resources its innovative capacity, research and development, management skills, and know how to turn policy ideas into reality.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Expanding such channels, especially during a period of potential political change, will strengthen US leverage.

The central problem is that Europeans have squandered their most powerful source of leverage unity.

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

Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

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.

UNICEF aims to use its limited resources to leverage wider funding in support of interventions for children and women, in this case by developing pilot approaches in order to inform the design of programmes funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

As part of its operational priorities and bearing in mind its small size, both in budgetary and human resource terms, in the course of 2004 UNODC launched a number of initiatives in order to leverage resources and to exploit the power of partnership with Governments and institutions.