During the 1990 s, private investors looked at big, lumbering central banks as cash cows, long on money and short on financial acumen.

The ability of women to exercise these rights is dependent upon their level of education, employment, legal knowledge, financial acumen, support and access to legal services.

Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

Latin America showed strong resilience during the international financial crisis.

According to the Director of Financial Services of Anguilla, the Territory currently has a strong, well regulated financial services infrastructure.

This requires strong regulation, with a sensible rulebook for financial markets and institutions.

The CACG, for example, advocates that the director has to have integrity, common sense, business acumen and leadership.

Confidence is important, but it must rest on sound fundamentals. Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

I am certain that her political acumen and diplomatic skills will contribute greatly to the work of the Committee.

Its financial markets high quality must be an important reason for America s relatively strong economic growth.

(a) Building a strong financial element as part of the new multi year programme of work.

Mr. Kapoma (Zambia) said that the United Nations must have a strong and dependable financial base.

Financial flows for development must be generated through a meaningful international trade regime with strong development dimensions.

Bashar may lack his father s acumen, but he, too, knows a simple truth peace with Israel is the price to pay.

These social anxieties are not being addressed because financial sector bailouts, stimulus packages, and help for distressed industries with strong lobbies are testing many governments financial limits.

Sometimes, strong recoveries follow recessions, but recovery following financial crises is always immensely painful, time consuming, and traumatic.

But nobody forecasts strong growth like that now, because recoveries from financial crises are usually slow and painful.

Overall, there was positive progress in the areas of elections and financial accountability, which enjoyed strong donor support.

And no historical acumen is needed to understand that nationalism was the source of Hitler s National Socialism and, therefore, World War II.

This requires strong regulation, with a sensible rulebook for financial markets and institutions. And, to ensure that everyone plays by the rules, financial institutions must be supervised intensively.

A second lesson is that dealing successfully with a financial crisis requires, most immediately, a strong dose of liquidity.

Their sound financial systems, strong fiscal frameworks, low public debt, and strict adherence to inflation targets give them credibility.

I can only talk from my own experience, but in eight years of running Acumen fund, I've seen the power of patient capital.

True, Yasser Arafat was not a model democrat, but his charisma and political acumen were crucial for holding all the Palestinian factions together.

Given that financial integration is particularly strong within the monetary union, putting the ECB in charge was an obvious choice.

After all, this time it was not they that had engaged in financial excess, and their economic fundamentals looked strong.

The dollar came under pressure early in the current financial crisis, but staged a strong recovery as the crisis worsened.

Portfolio growth was strong in post conflict transition countries, while among clients, international financial institutions represented the strongest growth trend.

Regulators face a Sisyphean task, owing to the absence of strong and consistent political support for reining in the financial titans.

The creation of the system of national banks by the National Banking Act provided a strong financial network in the country.

However, reform could not take place without a strong financial base, which was the guarantee of the Organization's stability and vitality.

My final story is about a young, beautiful man named Josephat Byaruhanga, who was another Acumen Fund fellow, who hails from Uganda, a farming community.

Furthermore, strong international financial partners are indispensable to multinational corporations, which often need global cash management or support for large scale transactions.

The group of core senators pushing for financial reform is already strong, including Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley, Carl Levin, and Jack Reed.

As with medical research, early innovations will not reap significant financial rewards, so there is no strong incentive for private investment today.

Because financiers and savers have limited confidence in the future, such regimes can t readily build and maintain strong foundations for financial development.

Some of the countries that look so strong today may suddenly experience the kind of financial crises that they thought they had left behind.

Thanks to Turkey s strong fundamentals and macro prudential framework in 2008, the global financial crisis has left no lasting impact on the Turkish economy.

Moreover, a Tobin tax moves financial traders talented people with strong work habits into other activities, which (policymakers hope) will benefit the economy more.

In Portugal, for example, there was a strong commotion and reaction when the independent American financial analysis firm Moody's called Portuguese debt junk debt .

A second lesson is that dealing successfully with a financial crisis requires, most immediately, a strong dose of liquidity. Then, once the financial system has been stabilized, a combination of debt restructuring and recapitalization is required.

And, in a world economy that had rested on the foundations of a strong dollar, the consequent financial market instability will be costly for all.

The latter, in turn, provides strong incentives for countries to address institutional shortcomings so that they can reap the potential benefits of external financial liberalization.

Moreover, the financial sectors in many countries were supposedly in a strong position to cope with any cyclical challenges and further market corrections to come.

The BRICS proposed New Development Bank presents an important opportunity to reflect these changes, with modern financial instruments, strong governance, and a broad based mandate.