This risk was highlighted by the recent downgrade of Italy s credit rating by Standard Poor s.

Given the danger that these standard terms could pose in terms of hiding derogations from the obligations in the draft instrument, it was thought that paragraph (b) provided practical and indispensable protection for small shippers faced with such standard terms.

There are many reasons and ways to manage trade credit terms for the benefit of a business.

The EU would also need a banking union to make credit available on equal terms in every country.

DAKAR France is wrestling with a burden of debts and public deficits that led Standard Poor s recently to downgrade its credit rating.

So ill, in fact, that Standard Poor s recently cut its sovereign credit rating the country s second downgrade in less than two years.

Application of the convention's terms to letters of credit, direct demand guarantees and similar undertakings needs to be adjusted.

Indeed, this is one of the factors that contributed to Moody s decision following Standard Poor s to strip France of its AAA credit rating.

Brazil s financial good behavior was rewarded as recently as April of this year when Standard Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.

Russia s worsening credit rating and the tougher borrowing terms in the international market are forcing Russia to compete harder for capital.

In fact, according to Standard Chartered Bank, China ranks first worldwide in terms of both overall M2 and newly issued currency.

Increasingly, they depend on the provision of other services, inter alia credit advance, quality control and standard setting, advertising, management of inventories, and after sale servicing.

Credit terms worsened abruptly, and what was left was the thoroughly overpriced rump of economies that had become excessively dependent on foreign financing.

In establishing a credit rating on a United Nations bond issue, the credit rating agencies would focus on the source and probability of timely debt service payments, in accordance with the terms applicable to the bond issue.

To their credit, many of the project s opponents have avoided the crass bigotry that is becoming a standard trait of right wing discourse in the United States.

Advocates of austerity counter that confidence in the government s credit might collapse, and the government might have to roll over its debt on unfavorable terms.

To the credit of the Lebanese judicial and security authorities, they have come a long way in terms of their ability to pursue the investigations.

Standard Poor argued that such a mechanism would provide credit rating agencies with less incentive to compete with one another, pursue innovation, and improve their models, criteria, and methodologies.

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The standard bearers of the Cold War were not just the United States and the Soviet Union, but, in ideological terms, the individual and the collectivity.

We cannot explain this convergence in terms of standard economic arguments, such as changes in relative prices and incomes, because no such changes were sufficiently large.

In addition, the ISO 9806 standard is ambiguous in describing the way in which the efficiency of solar thermal collectors should be measured, since these could be measured either in terms of gross area or in terms of absorber area.

For example, OECD has a history of expressing trade data in terms of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Statistics Division introduces trade data in terms of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC).

For countries which face a liquidity problem but are considered to have sustainable debt, the Paris Club would apply the existing standard terms to a flow rescheduling.

The databases of both organizations will contain two quantity fields net weight and quantity in terms of the standard units of quantity recommended by the World Customs Organization.

His delegation supported the European Union's pragmatic and sensible proposal for a standard series of three two year terms that was becoming the norm for the United Nations system.

Foreign aid transfers from rich countries to poor countries has much to its credit, particularly in terms of health care, with many people alive today who would otherwise be dead.

Related to these challenges are serious gender inequities, particularly in terms of economic empowerment of women, who have limited access to formal credit facilities owing to their lack of collateral.

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Non standard measures helped to clear standard measures transmission path.

Mr. Chung Wan yong (Republic of Korea) said that the terms letter of credit and bank guarantee had been mentioned explicitly in an earlier version of draft article 2, paragraph 2.

Similarly, positioning the IMF as a general risk insurer by introducing precautionary credit lines above normal access limits would be compatible neither with its mission to provide financial assistance on deliberately non risk adjusted terms nor with the current system of refinancing short term Fund credit through risk free official reserves.

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The answer may be that credit markets are more developed in advanced economies than they are in emerging countries, particularly in terms of the degree to which households are able to borrow.

This implies that the problem has mainly been a lack of demand for credit reluctance on the part of businesses and households to borrow on almost any terms in a flat market.

Economy Austria is the 12th richest country in the world in terms of GDP (Gross domestic product) per capita, has a well developed social market economy, and a high standard of living.

Thus, a central feature of existing international liability regimes is a restriction of freedom of contract with the legislative intent to ensure the protection of small parties against unfair standard contract terms.

However, the view was also expressed that this paragraph was of great importance in some jurisdictions, where small shippers were virtually economically compelled to conclude volume contracts, and often on standard terms.

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