For example, falling home prices put more families in negative equity mortgages worth more than the home.

The Bush administration has finally come around to doing what every economist urged it to do put more equity into the banks.

If house prices go up, you make a good return on your equity (and a better return than if you had put 20 down).

Higher equity capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.

Increase of access to education and equity

Start with equity.

As for Goldman s equity play, as bond market guru Bill Blain put it, the words buy cheap, sell a bit dearer on the up, and then dump and run spring to mind.

i. Gender Equity Policy

Promoting greater gender equity.

As a further enhancement to the Australian Government's equity provisions for higher education students, the Higher Education Equity Support Programme was introduced in 2005 following a review of higher education equity measures under the reforms.

Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.

Taming the Private Equity Locusts

Employment equity and workplace diversity

This form of financing is often used by private equity investors to reduce the amount of equity capital required to finance a leveraged buyout or major expansion.

To effect these plans, an Equity Desk was established under the Department of Strategic Management and a Social Equity Task Force with representatives from both Government and civil society organizations were appointed to monitor the development and implementation of the Gender Equity Policy.

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

Regulators might consider imposing pro cyclical equity requirements increasing the equity percentage in boom times in order to offset losses in the inevitable bust times.

Participating in these write offs would put huge strain on the Eurosystem (the ECB and the central banks of the eurozone member states), which has only around 500 billion in equity capital.

As indicated in the Background section, the Gender Equity Policy of the Comprehensive Reform Programme highlighted the directive to Ministries to incorporate gender equity policies in their programmes.

Subprogramme 4 Social development and equity

Warren Buffet showed another way, in providing equity to Goldman Sachs.

The equity capital of banks urgently needs to be substantially increased.

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To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity

Not to be forgotten is the unfulfilled agenda of gender equity.

Finally, the bankers are paid according to return on equity, unadjusted for risk, so it is very much in their interest to continue running their business with very little equity.

Use more equity, and equity becomes less leveraged and less risky, which causes investors to demand lower returns to hold it, and again the overall financing cost remains the same.

The governance structures have to function according to democratic principles, founded on equity.

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

This has led to heightened volatility in equity, money, and debt markets.

Secondaries Secondary investments refer to investments made in existing private equity assets.

Fiscal reform should enhance government legitimacy by paying greater attention to equity.

What is required is to give individuals with excessive indebtedness an expedited way to a fresh start for example, a special bankruptcy provision allowing them to recover, say, 75 of the equity they originally put into the house, with the lenders bearing the cost.

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

Indeed, if, as some believe, only a fraction of the banks equity is at risk, the potential debt equity swaps would be minuscule.

The advantage of equity capital is that it is loss absorbing, meaning that only after losses wipe out all of the equity do they need to be apportioned between creditors.

The Pay Equity Act was adopted in 1996.

Equity in the Schools Project 1998 1.1 billion.

Development in equity and democracy is the formula.

Credit lines secured by home equity provided another new way to finance spending.

Debt equity swaps would be a much better way to recapitalize the banks.

Women's health promotion could be a practical approach to achieve greater gender equity.

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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.

According to a 2002 survey carried out on behalf of the Pay Equity Commission, 39 percent of 3,899 businesses employing between 10 and 49 people have completed their pay equity procedure.