Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.

Private leverage levels, as much as the public debt burden, must therefore be treated as crucial economic variables.

(a) Acting as the operational arms of ECA at the country and subregional levels and serving as catalysts to leverage the Commission's resources

UNICEF will expand its work with allies at all levels, focusing on developing partnership frameworks that address specific needs and can leverage resources for scaling up programmes.

Certainly the People s Bank of China, which engineered a credit squeeze in June in an attempt to discourage loan growth, seems to believe that financial leverage has risen to dangerous levels.

Leverage is down sharply.

If we do not address the fundamental fact that free financial markets can generate harmful levels of private sector leverage, we will not have learned the most important lesson of the 2008 crisis.

How did this happen? They note that, in general, debt levels and leverage rose during the decade preceding these crises, propelling increases in asset prices for a long time.

Europe is not without leverage.

The EU has even more leverage.

A significant number of banks operated at very high levels of leverage prior to the recent crisis, with debt equity ratios of 30 1 (or more) in some cases, and with much of the debt very short term.

Given these trends, the search for more robust growth models will take much longer and be more complicated than many recognize especially as the world economy pivots away from unfettered globalization and high levels of leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

For Europe, Leijonhufvud argues, this implies a three pronged approach that focuses on levels of leverage, maturity mismatches, and the topology of the web, that is, its connectivity and the presence of critical nodes that are too big to fail.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

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

But offsetting fiscal austerity with ultra easy monetary policies risks fueling a resurgence of private leverage in advanced economies and already has produced the dangerous spillover of rising leverage in emerging economies.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

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

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.

There are many reasons for the underpricing of risk and the rise in leverage.

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

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

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.

The presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, and the international community in general, also exerted leverage.

Expanding such channels, especially during a period of potential political change, will strengthen US leverage.

The central problem is that Europeans have squandered their most powerful source of leverage unity.

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

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

Relative to the recent past, the cost of capital will increase, debt will be more expensive and less ubiquitous, and risk spreads will not return to pre crisis compressed levels. Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.

In theory, all of these factors are potential sources of leverage for outside powers like the US.

In other words, we should leverage imbalances of one kind to redress imbalances of the other kind.

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.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

As a result, by 2010, China s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30 .

And limits on financial institutions leverage will change only in the next decade.

There are times when the leverage of powerful States including permanent members of the Council can be crucial.

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