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.

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.

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.

Leverage is down sharply.

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.

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.

In the fifth act, investment will seize up. Why continue building when you can neither finance your investment nor sell real estate?

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.

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.

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.

With the smallest investment in the right places, you can radically transform the quality of your relationships and the quality of your life.

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.

We believe that diasporas and the global donor community can leverage the flow of migrant investment if they form partnerships with national governments for long term development of the rural communities that are so often the beginning of the migration chain.

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

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

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

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

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.

Clearly, this benefits America s allies, Japan and South Korea. They know that the US gives them leverage in their dealings with China, not only in discouraging its increasingly bold security posture, but also in advancing mutually beneficial economic and investment ties with their giant neighbor.

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

We can now leverage microfluidics, like this chip made by Steve Quake at Stanford.

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

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

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