Consider also the credit markets.

It s natural that the state of global markets will have some kind of ripple effect, says Greg Kabance, managing director for Latin American structured finance at Fitch Ratings, the international credit ratings agency.

International capital markets already have curtailed credit to these countries.

Improving access to assets, including land, credit, technology and markets

With credit markets impaired, further quantitative easing may still be needed.

Irresponsible borrowing by governments in international credit markets requires irresponsible lending.

Then panic spread to credit markets, money markets, and currency markets, highlighting the vulnerabilities of many developing countries financial systems and corporate sectors, which had experienced credit booms and had borrowed short and in foreign currencies.

Not allowing the necessary consolidation is weakening credit markets, not strengthening them.

The PRONAF is structured as a credit for the family unit and requires the commitment of all of the family members.

Moreover, money markets, especially in Europe, remain traumatized by the festering global credit crunch.

Unlike the days of yore, when cutting the price of credit could boost borrowing, quantitative easing purportedly works by stimulating asset and credit markets.

Indeed, economies and markets no longer face liquidity problems, but rather credit and insolvency crises.

With credit markets impaired, the Fed could buy more government bonds or private sector debt.

Many countries support women entrepreneurs, including by increasing their access to credit, training and markets.

At the very least, markets like ETS should credit emissions reductions that result from limiting deforestation.

In the US, reviving the credit markets requires stopping the mortgage defaults driven by negative equity.

Global stock markets have, overall, reached new highs. And credit markets show low spreads, while long term bond yields have fallen in most advanced economies.

Financial markets were eager to lend to these households, in part because the credit markets were deregulated, which served as an invitation to reckless lending.

But markets would happily gorge on bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the eurozone.

Little wonder, then, that we are now witnessing a significant correction in equity, credit, and commodities markets.

That boost in assets will, in turn, enable local credit markets, such as micro finance, to begin operating.

Emerging markets and other developing countries will need oxygen in the form of credit lines and trade financing.

The subsequent state directed WMP regulation put a brake on credit creation and sent Chinese stock markets plunging.

Even those countries that were better prepared were made painfully aware of the after effects of crisis export markets collapsed, commodity prices fell, and credit markets seized up.

To best promote the availability of low cost secured credit, the Guide suggests that secured transactions laws should be structured to enable businesses to utilize the value inherent in their property to the maximum extent possible to obtain credit.

The Government attached great importance to private sector development of agricultural markets, rural microfinance institutions and domestic credit markets, improvement of land tenure security and expansion of transport links.

Lacking well developed capital markets as an alternative source of credit, bank funding channels are especially vital in Asia.

With the liberalization of global financial markets that began in the 1970 s, foreign sources of credit became available.

We must reckon with a huge increase in bankruptcies as well as with impaired credit markets and high unemployment.

Her country had created specific programmes to give women equal access to resources, employment, property, credit, markets and trade.

Efforts on behalf of the informal sector should be focused on improving access to credit, technology, training and markets.

Such credit programmes were operating in at least 25 villages, and the women benefited from a revolving, reimbursable system that would be in place until their lives were structured enough for them to apply for official credit under the normal system.

Asset prices shifted, and capital rushed out of emerging markets, causing credit conditions to tighten and exchange rates to fall.

Also, women have generally lagged behind men in gaining access to credit, finances, markets, technology and information, including trade information.

We have seen enhanced credit support, credit easing, quantitative easing, interventions in currency and securities markets, and the provision of liquidity in foreign currency to name but a few of the measures taken.

The sell off in international credit markets in March April 2005 led to the postponement or cancellation of some new bond issues but borrowers with high credit ratings had little trouble accessing financing.

There is now a serious risk of a systemic meltdown in US financial markets as huge credit and asset bubbles collapse.

Barcelona The financial crisis, credit crunch, and ensuing economic downturn have severely damaged the credibility of financial markets, institutions, and traders.

Credit rating agencies, which play an important role in modern capital markets, completely failed in the years preceding the financial crisis.

US and Chinese leaders have fought the crisis with not only massive fiscal stimulus, but also deep intervention into credit markets.

There are good reasons, however, to be skeptical that this will be the panacea that credit markets are (literally) banking on.

Regardless of what is done to provide a fiscal stimulus, governments around the world must act to fix dysfunctional credit markets.

But financial repression is hardly painless and almost certainly reduces the allocative efficiency of credit markets, thereby impacting long term growth.

The collapse of credit made matters worse and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.

It also assists and facilitates women's access to credit facilities, profitable markets and to services which may enable them to become entrepreneurs.