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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Subregional offices are well positioned to leverage their status as subregional entities as a comparative advantage in resource mobilization.

Others may decide to aggregate traffic with other operators and thus gain leverage in their dealings with global providers.

How do you leverage that information?

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.

Moreover, stakeholders find they have little leverage in participating in policy setting process, even though their products may be directly affected.

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

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.

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

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

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.

With the increase in staffing, the UNFICYP police were able to increase their contacts with both sides.

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.

(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).

They also provide a channel for the country Parties, cooperation partners, relevant institutions and agencies in each subregion to coordinate and link their activities to leverage experience.

For established businesses, retained earnings are the key source of finance but, beyond this, the need to leverage their own resources requires organizational relations with the banking system.

UNICEF aimed to support access to, and completion of, quality education for all children as their basic human right and a means to leverage gains in other sectors.

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

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.

Those who spend their wealth for increase in self purification,

Those who spend their wealth for increase in self purification,

We work to create conditions in which poor rural women and men can grow and sell more food, increase their incomes, and determine the direction of their own lives. We believe that diasporas and the global donor community can leverage the flow of migrant investment if they form partnerships with national governments for long term development of the rural communities that are so often the beginning of the migration chain.

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.

In this respect, TNCs from the South can use their familiarity with the local business environment, geographical proximity and ethnic and cultural ties to leverage their competitive edge in other developing countries (Aykut and Ratha, 2004).