It would also considerably increase its capital assets.

Equity capital will increase relative to assets but, under current policies, it will increase because banks reduce their assets, not because they raise capital.

We consolidated them from 89 to 25 banks by requiring that they increase their capital share capital.

As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment.

Its stock of foreign capital will increase steadily as foreign firms invest and reinvest in China.

Even the stronger banks are being pressed to increase their capital reserves.

All of these actions should help increase the absorptive capacity for foreign capital.

And, to address volatile capital flows, countries should increase exchange rate flexibility, maintain adequate international reserves, and implement carefully designed capital controls.

Counter cyclical capital requirements fit with this idea, and a range of indicators could be used to calibrate the increase in capital requirements, coupled perhaps with some discretion.

The result is an increase in the cost of capital to firms, which lowers investment and exacerbates the crisis.

Instead, the keys to growth and development appeared to lie beyond an increase in capital intensity as measured by capital output ratios skills, education, technology broadly understood, and improvements in organizational management.

. According to the report, the South African economy has shown a steady increase in the capital to labour ratio, in particular between 1960 and 1985, and a high capital to output ratio.

High investment may cause economic overheating and increase the price of capital goods in the medium term, eventually triggering inflation.

Africa s growth potential has caught the attention of foreign investors, who have contributed to a rapid increase in capital expenditure.

Spanish banks speculated on a continuing increase in real estate prices, which would bring large capital gains to their customers.

They had also registered a record increase in international reserves in 2004 resulting from higher trade surpluses and net private capital inflows.

The rising trade surpluses and increasing net private capital flows to developing countries overall led to a record increase in international reserves of 455 billion in 2004, surpassing the 325 billion increase in 2003.

One speaker expressed the view that the deterrent effect of capital punishment had not been proven and that, in his country, the abolition of capital punishment had not led to an increase in crime.

Such sharing oriented businesses increase the productivity of existing capital, while creating new jobs for workers.

By sharing capital equipment, we make it more accessible to more people and ultimately increase demand.

Keynes s prediction rested on the assumption that, with a 2 annual increase in capital, a 1 increase in productivity, and a stable population, average standards of living would rise eight times on average.

The World Bank last undertook a general capital increase in 1988, which raised its non concessional lending capacity by 75 billion.

One speaker referred to the fact that the deterrent effect of capital punishment had not been proven and that, in his country, the abolition of capital punishment had not led to an increase in crime.

We believe that urgent measures should be taken to increase the flows of capital to African countries.

Spanish banks are required to increase their deposits in proportion to their lending and set aside capital against assets in their off balance sheets.

Thus, a 10 increase in working time is the same as if the economy s stock of productive capital were increased by 10 .

The unprecedented increase in developing countries foreign exchange reserves is due both to their current account surpluses and large net capital inflows.

Without economic growth, there can be no sustained increase in household or government consumption, in private or public capital formation, in health, welfare and security levels.

But, unfortunately, the most obvious way for banks to increase their capital ratios is to curtail their lending.

Although, generally speaking, sharp reduction in capital flows affected the growth prospects of developing countries, it was hard to say that capital flows were the major current constraint on development, especially in view of their increase in the last three years.

In that case, China would have to accept an export slowdown and an increase in unemployment in order to avoid huge capital losses on its dollar reserves.

There has been a continued increase in the costly build up of precautionary reserves as a form of self insurance against volatility in international capital flows.

Participants suggested that there was considerable unused capacity in the multilateral development banks that could fund more official development finance without an increase in their capital.

The remaining portion represents support costs and items budgeted centrally, including working capital and area staff salary increase requirements.

The proposal to increase the levels of the Working Capital Fund and the peace keeping reserves deserves careful study.

Also surprising is the increase in Argentina s domestic savings rate, which has enabled self financing of investment which has doubled and, paradoxically, capital outflows.

In particular, if the firm s equity capital erodes, the government should not provide funds (directly or indirectly) to increase the cushion available to bondholders.

In order to reverse the feminization of poverty, more must be done to increase women's access to and control over productive resources and capital.

Various policies were implemented to increase savings restructuring of public expenditure, tax measures to increase government income, deregulation of the domestic capital market and measures to bring about macroeconomic stabilization.

The Swiss authorities welcome in principle the increase of the facility apos s capital and express their readiness to contribute substantially to the next phase.

The growth of potential GDP will reflect the structural rise of the labor force, the increase in the capital stock, and the improvement in multifactor productivity (i.e., the change in the output that results from improvements in technology rather than from increases in labor and capital.)

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Capital onion soup, capital.

A huge influx of capital could lead to a significant appreciation of the peso s exchange rate, causing an increase in Mexico s currently very attractive labor costs.