China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

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

Yet the mantle of a regional power sometimes requires using that leverage for the greater good of the region.

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power.

America s traditional sources of influence its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage appear to be running dry.

But does South Africa really see itself as a regional power? Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

Leverage is down sharply.

The EU has even more leverage.

Europe is not without leverage.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

And so I do like something which is pointed, not blunt, something which is focused on reality, something that has the power, through its leverage, to transform even a very small space.

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

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power. Urban workers per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

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

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

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

Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.

We need partnerships that leverage the knowledge and solutions that come from local communities.

The idea is that deferring the warrant will give the Security Council leverage over Sudan.

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

The tradable sector is expanding and is not dependent on leverage to generate aggregate demand.

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

The US should now leverage that relationship to work on regional and even global issues.

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

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

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

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

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