The risk premia that financially distressed countries must pay remain high and signal continuing risk.

Otherwise, countries risk losing their hard won gains.

Reproductive risk is lowest in the wealthy industrialized world, whereas countries with the highest reproductive risk are the poorest countries in sub Saharan Africa.

Debtor countries pay substantial risk premiums for financing their government debt.

Most developing countries faced a serious risk of being left behind.

The big countries with the highest political risk are Russia and China.

Risk premiums widened, and the eurozone was divided into creditor and debtor countries.

Before the crisis, some thought risk premia for developing countries were irrationally low.

If heavily indebted countries have to pay heavy risk premiums, their debt becomes unsustainable.

For surplus countries that want to accumulate reserves, it would reduce exchange rate risk.

Socializing public debt is already posing a risk to the still stable eurozone countries.

In addition, some one billion people in over one hundred countries are at risk.

Each faces a greater risk of manipulation by outsiders than other countries in the region.

Without a regional focus, WANA countries risk sleepwalking into conflict and more pronounced economic decline.

(b) assist countries at risk of armed conflict in performing strategic conflict risk assessments, in implementing the measures agreed by the concerned countries, in enhancing national dispute management capacities, and in addressing the root causes of armed conflict

But insurance and other risk management institutions have been slow to develop, even in advanced countries.

Remaining deeply concerned that all countries, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries and small island States, face increased risk from the negative impacts of climate change,

As markets underpriced risk in order to lend to increasingly indebted countries, pressure on interest rates diminished.

Although prohibited by law in many countries, young people remain at widespread risk of trafficking and prostitution.

The European debt crisis, however, remains, and markets do not fully trust the current calm. The risk premia that financially distressed countries must pay remain high and signal continuing risk.

Indeed, countries with higher birth rates are less exposed to longevity risk in the next half century or so than countries with low birth rates.

Iraq argues that, since the oil well fires did not constitute a significant health risk in Kuwait, they would have constituted even less of a risk for populations in other countries.

Normally, countries ask for shared sacrifice, as they ask their young men and women to risk their lives.

Investors thus assumed that they did not need to assess the credit risk of eurozone countries (national) public debt.

Countries like Bangladesh and Mozambique have proven that disaster risk reduction and preparedness can be a life saving investment.

Democratic countries cannot be asked to risk the blood of their soldiers without the solid backing of their citizens.

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

Those concepts run the risk of being invoked in the future as a pretext for aggression against our countries.

She expressed concern at the increased risk posed to developing countries and small island developing States by climate change.

Financial globalization was supposed to have enabled poor, undercapitalized countries to gain access to the savings of rich countries. It was supposed to have promoted risk sharing globally.

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

In most developing countries, financial service providers are not yet in a position to use modern credit risk management techniques to assess borrowers' risk and thus competitively provide capital, particularly trade finance, to enterprises.

Governance and land tenure systems must be improved in many countries, and the risk of corruption must be addressed rigorously.

Debtor countries pay substantial risk premiums to finance their debt, which is reflected in their high economy wide borrowing costs.

Perceptions of such divergences force considerable risk premiums on problem countries, inevitably resulting in accelerating capital flight to safe havens.

Commercial fishing is a high risk industry, and countries are introducing regulations governing the construction and operation of fishing vessels.

Countries in North America, Europe and Oceania indicated a high level of specific types of intervention targeting at risk groups.

However, the inequalities that exist between richer countries and developing countries in terms of funding pose a real risk for exploitation, especially in the context of externally funded research.

Disaster reduction posed a challenge to all countries, especially developing countries, and the international community needed to build capacities for risk reduction, adaptation, early warning and post disaster reconstruction.

In order to reduce disaster risks, countries and communities must first identify risk factors, decide what level of risk is acceptable, and then take steps to reduce risks or transfer them away from affected areas.

GDP risk is a long term risk.

Indeed, the risk has become more concentrated as banks in the periphery have increased their investment in their own countries bonds.

The LTRO enabled Spanish and Italian banks to engage in very profitable and low risk arbitrage in their own countries bonds.

So, are we in 1936, and does the budgetary tightening contemplated in many countries risk provoking a similar double dip recession?

This, at any rate, is the main risk that democratic countries face, for the politics of values is a dangerous development.