The MDBs have been able to leverage large flows of private investment by mitigating risks and developing the capacity of domestic financial institutions.

In these circumstances, Turkey has been able to leverage both its regional ties and its standing in the transatlantic community to play a more instrumental role vis à vis its southern neighbors.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Or might we be able to leverage today's gaming technology, like the Microsoft Kinect, and hack that to enable diagnostics, for example, in diagnosing stroke, using simple motion detection, using hundred dollar devices.

Leverage is down sharply.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

Europe is not without leverage.

In response to the Indian Ocean tsunami, UNF provided 5 million of its core funds and, with UNFIP support, was able to leverage an additional 35 million from a range of partners, including the American Red Cross.

The EU has even more leverage.

International agencies could use their leverage to help make this happen.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF s funds.

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

Reforming financial sector taxation would also help to reduce excessive risk taking and leverage.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

The tradable sector is expanding and is not dependent on leverage to generate aggregate demand.

So would citizens whose livelihoods are being destroyed by governments desperate attempts to de leverage.

The US should now leverage that relationship to work on regional and even global issues.

Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

Now more than ever, people are calling to leverage social media for public social activities.

The main argument is that high leverage contributes powerfully to systemic risk a condition in which asset prices move in a highly correlated way, and distress, when it occurs, spreads quickly. Leverage is also partially caused by misperceptions of risk and mispricing of liquidity. It is desirable to constrain leverage, but not to the point of increasing the cost of capital and investment.

But it must rise further, to 8 , in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.

Significantly, it does next to nothing to alleviate the twin problems of excess leverage and inadequate saving.

Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

It is important to use both the arms and legs to provide the leverage to start the push.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.

The search for return contributed to the reckless leverage and risk taking that underlay this crisis.

By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India s capacity for economic growth.

Finally, increasing financial leverage means that the firm uses more debt financing relative to equity financing.

It was stated that efforts to leverage financing through cooperation with international financial institutions should continue.

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

Growth based on high leverage typically proves to be illusory. And yet the illusion continues to entice policymakers.

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

The entire world knows the risk posed by a nuclear Iran a drastically altered balance of power in the Middle East and Central Asia, with Iran able to exert far more regional leverage  both overt and implicit  than it now possesses in pursuit of its interests.

The entire world knows the risk posed by a nuclear Iran a drastically altered balance of power in the Middle East and Central Asia, with Iran able to exert far more regional leverage both overt and implicit than it now possesses in pursuit of its interests.

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power.