The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

With little incentive to manufacture structured investment vehicles, few Spanish banks created them, thereby avoiding excessive leverage.

One is that, facing declining growth, policymakers will resort to excess investment or leverage (or both), creating instability.

Such assistance should be used as a tool to leverage foreign direct investment consistent with the objectives of the recipient country.

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

One is leverage.

Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.

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

These measures also contribute to more efficient use of ODA, which can in turn further leverage foreign direct investment, trade and domestic resources.

Leverage is down sharply.

Europe is not without leverage.

We can now leverage microfluidics,

Could we leverage the cloud?

This could involve a combination of targeting the sanitation needs of the poor and increasing support for hygiene education, which can leverage domestic sanitation demand and investment.

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 EU has even more leverage.

How do you leverage that information?

This puts a premium on strategic interventions on the part of United Nations bodies and organizations which can leverage additional funding and investment from both private and public sources.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

Donors should leverage aid to grow the pie and to diversify financing sources for the world s poorest countries by providing risk guarantees, innovative investment vehicles, debt syndication, and co financing arrangements.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

True enough, interest rates were falling, though not as fast as the fall in expected profit on new investment. So, even in the so called boom years, most Western economies were kept afloat not by new investment, but by asset bubbles based on increasingly unsustainable leverage.

UNDP intends to leverage its investment in corporate initiatives such as its Enterprise Resource Planning (Atlas system) to progressively link financial resources to defined outcomes for results based reporting within the RBM framework.

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

And he is going to have even more leverage.

It's very cheap. We have a lot of leverage.

Break out a spare shaft. We must use leverage.

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.

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Or might we be able to leverage today's gaming technology,

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.

All told, these various initiatives are likely to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the coming decade, speeding growth in the counterpart countries while deepening their production, trade, and financial linkages with China.

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

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

Terrorists have always sought leverage to penetrate international power and influence.

The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary leverage.

So there's huge leverage for making the car a lot lighter.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times leverage.

The president of Giant Mall has a lot of business leverage.