Loan or bond covenants often require borrowers to agree to maintain a minimum level of equity capital or cash on hand.

The best known tools for this are margin requirements and minimum capital requirements.

At a minimum, proprietary trading ought to be financed by banks own capital.

(a) Raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an internationally accepted level

For example, audit, entry and annual fees, tax on business profit, prudential requirements such as minimum capital, bank guarantee and minimum managerial experience as required in some States.

A minimum level of funding was agreed on for training editorial staff during 2005.

The capital requirements attached to that subsidiary would be more burdensome, with minimum Tier One capital set at 10 , compared to the new Basel 3 standard of 7 .

Minority communities' employment in the public sector is 55 per cent of the stipulated minimum level.

There are some international agreements, notably the Basel Accords on minimum capital requirements and there is also good cooperation among market regulators.

The proposed Basel III regulations set wholly insufficient minimum capital requirements and maintain a failed approach to adjusting the requirements to risk.

In communities with survival rates 20 , a minimum of two of the rescuers are trained to the advanced level.

Cash balances were maintained at a minimum level to provide the organisation with maximum returns on investment (Figure 2).

Ultimately, this system has allowed Chile to significantly increase the number of household telephones with a minimum level of subsidies.

In order to eradicate moral hazard, the system must have a resolution procedure to close banks when their capital falls below a minimum threshold.

Client management structures will be rationalized and kept at the minimum level necessary to ensure business development and close client relations.

Mutual and other private sector funds require minimum terms for investments, and such mandatory lock up periods should be applied to capital inflows as well.

At a minimum, that would mean reducing the deficit to a level that stops the rise in the debt to GDP ratio.

(g) Recommend a core set of tables as minimum requirements at the national and international level to satisfy the major users' needs.

When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a minimum level of women s representation across all parties and districts.

(d) The level of regular budget cash resources (including the Working Capital Fund) was 50.6 million.

At a minimum, a short term growth slowdown is nearly certain some wonder whether the destabilizing impact of capital flow reversals will have longer term adverse effects.

These trends imply an increased probability that the market is underestimating risk, so systemic risk regulators should raise minimum capital requirements as soon as they spot them.

Haiti is a country with a per capital gross national product of 415, whose inhabitants lack the basic resources necessary for survival with a minimum of dignity.

Minimum ages Countries are free to specify a minimum age for labour, with a minimum of 15 years.

Hence, they recommend targeting a minimum level of basic capabilities that will impact quality of life, such as institutional improvements like health and education.

The Committee welcomes the State party's efforts to improve Brazil's health level, in particular the establishment of the Minimum Healthcare Allocation (PAB) in 1998.

In addition, such insulation discourages the raising of additional capital, inducing executives to run banks with a capital level that provides an inadequate cushion for bondholders and depositors.

Minimum increment

Minimum value

Minimum Punishments

Whereas China exports manufactured products with an increasing level of technological inputs, Latin America continues to export basic goods with a minimum of added value.

For example, people who suffer the most adversity can fall back on an explicit social safety net a minimum level of unemployment insurance, for example.

The Human Rights Committee observed that certain minimum standards regarding the conditions of detention must be observed regardless of a State party's level of development.

At a minimum, the new measures are an important step toward improved management of cross border capital flows, which is bound to benefit China s economic transformation and restructuring significantly.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the minimum amount that would be required for the capital master plan in 2006, irrespective of which strategy is chosen, is 102.7 million.

Voyages undertaken before the minimum will be overtaken by those who leave at the minimum, whereas those who leave after the minimum will never overtake those who left at the minimum.

But they have not eschewed the use of variable capital and reserve requirements, loan to deposit ratios, and thresholds for minimum deposits and maximum leverage as controls on property lending.

At the same time, there have been efforts to raise the level of earned income by setting minimum wage legislation. But the minimum wage has never reached the floor set for a living income and has not, therefore, appreciably reduced the bill for wage subsidies.

Forest is a minimum area of land of 0.05 1.0 hectares with tree crown cover (or equivalent stocking level) of more than 10 30 per cent with trees with the potential to reach a minimum height of 2 5 metres at maturity in situ.

Furthermore, attracting more direct investment is crucial, given that capital inflows, while recovering, remain 30 below their pre crisis level with outflows exceeding inflows, Italy has become a net capital exporter.

Minimum Marital Age

Minimum Age The legal minimum age for employment is 15 years of age (Section 44).

The combination of focused product lines and selective country presence means that corporate structures can be reduced and kept to the minimum level necessary to ensure ongoing operations.

3110 Minimum import prices

Second, with banks losing substantial amounts of equity capital estimates now reach 300 billion and more the need to maintain minimum equity debt ratios will force them to curtail business lending, hindering investment demand.