Recently, UN Habitat has embarked on the following strategic partnerships to increase the impact of the Programme and leverage its resources

Its objective is to explore new kinds of relationships with NGOs that will leverage mutual strengths and complementarities to increase impact and sustainability.

One is leverage.

The resulting increase in the national debt is the price that we and future generations will pay for the mistakes that created the current economic situation. Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

Chinese banks are being pushed to expand their role in global commerce. Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.

How do you leverage that information?

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

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

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

With insufficient profits to use for investment, nonfinancial corporations will become increasingly dependent on external finance. As their leverage ratios increase, so will their risk premiums, causing their borrowing costs to rise and undermining their profitability further.

Financial booms provide collateral that supports debt financed spending. Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.

Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced. Competitive devaluations, even if they are not policymakers stated objectives, are becoming increasingly tempting though they will not solve the aggregate demand problem.

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

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

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

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

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

Why not leverage the learnings that you've been learning your entire life?

We're using whatever leverage we have to bring them to the table.

And those three together, I think, give you leverage in the world.

Matty has found this ingenious way to leverage the kindness of strangers.

It's because there's a little more leverage in terms of the Chinese.

UNDP will also review opportunities to leverage unused PeopleSoft modules (para. 104).

That pattern came to a sudden stop in the financial crisis of 2008. Private sector leverage declined and public sector leverage reached and exceeded sustainable limits, with Greece being only the most extreme example.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

The increase in leverage was driven in part by government policies aimed at expanding home ownership among lower income groups that have proven unable to afford that life style. Banking supervisors did not deal with many institutions low levels of capital and poor asset quality.

Some of the ideas discussed during the consultations include suggestions for mechanisms to mitigate regulatory risk to increase the role of the World Bank and regional development banks in risk mitigation through increasing the leverage for their guarantees and to strengthen local currency lending.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

We can now leverage microfluidics, like this chip made by Steve Quake at Stanford.

Big banks executives often want to increase their institutions leverage, typically because they have various forms of guarantee in particular, deposit insurance and access to central bank financing on advantageous terms. In addition, the executives pay is typically based on return on equity, unadjusted for risk.

But territory is not the only objective of China s stealth wars China is also seeking to disturb the status quo when it comes to riparian relations. Indeed, it has almost furtively initiated dam projects to reengineer cross border river flows and increase its leverage over its neighbors.

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.

And the problem with leverage is it makes the U.S. financial system look like this.

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.

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

One would expect that the shock from the financial crisis should be comparable for the United States and the eurozone, given that they are of similar size, exhibit a similar degree of internal diversity, and experienced a similar increase in house prices (on average) in the years preceding the bust. Moreover, the relative increase in debt (leverage) in the financial system was similar on both sides of the Atlantic.

Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy. Not surprisingly, big private equity firms seem determined to ignore or otherwise circumvent new restrictions.

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

International leverage appeared necessary to clear these deadlocks, which were not primarily of Bosnia and Herzegovina's making.

Seeing such data, one cannot help but be stupefied. According to the statistical data of Suning Financial Research Institute, the leverage ratio of Chinese households was only 3 in 1996 and 18 in 2008. But this figure doubled in just six years since the trend of rapid growth of leverage ratio set in, reaching 36.4 . By the third quarter of 2017, the leverage ratio of households has reached 48.6 .

Consumers who represent 72 percent of the GDP of America have actually started, just like banks and just like businesses, to de leverage, to unwind their leverage, in daily life, to remove themselves from the liability and risk that presents itself as we move forward.

If you put up a prize, you can get literally a 50 to one leverage on your dollars.

And that attention would help leverage the situation, as well as all of the other sides of it.

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

Developing countries had acquired greater leverage in WTO negotiations and increasingly used WTO rules to defend their interests.