(a) Acting as the operational arms of ECA at the country and subregional levels and serving as catalysts to leverage the Commission's resources

UNICEF will expand its work with allies at all levels, focusing on developing partnership frameworks that address specific needs and can leverage resources for scaling up programmes.

One is leverage.

Given these trends, the search for more robust growth models will take much longer and be more complicated than many recognize especially as the world economy pivots away from unfettered globalization and high levels of leverage.

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

How do you leverage that information?

Specifically, China needs prudential regulation that limits the use of leverage for asset purchases. Here, the country already has an advantage relatively high levels of equity and low mortgage to value ratios typically characterize real estate purchases by China s household sector.

But it's not how you actually get leverage.

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.

It shows leverage, trended out from 1919 to 2009.

Corporate leverage in China rose from 2.4 times equity in 2007 to 3.5 times last year well above American and European levels. Nearly half of this debt matures within one year, even though much of it is being used to finance multi year infrastructure projects.

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.

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.

Leverage in some emerging markets household and corporate sectors has reached record levels. China s annual economic growth has slowed to around 7.5 , while Indonesia and India and, outside Asia, Brazil and South Africa are experiencing sharp downward pressure on their exchange rates.

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)

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.

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.

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

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 .

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.

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

We leverage a lot of technology from the state of the art in general aviation and from automotive racing.

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.

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.

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

And one of the unique capabilities that we leverage with the MR is the ability to measure temperature noninvasively.

LONDON The Great Recession of 2008 2009 was triggered by excessive debt accumulation and leverage on the part of households, financial institutions, and even the corporate sector in many advanced economies. While there is much talk about de leveraging as the crisis wanes, the reality is that private sector debt ratios have stabilized at very high levels.

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.

And I learned about profit and revenue, about leverage, all sorts of things, from farmers, from seamstresses, from goat herders.

Otherwise, the combined leverage of the Goals will not help to reduce poverty and hunger as stated under Goal 1.

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

Likewise, Russia has enjoyed leverage over Europe and its small neighbors through its control of natural gas supplies and pipelines. As North America becomes self sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide alternative sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia s leverage.

But there remains the question of whether consumption share growth is sustainable that is, whether it is the result of income share growth or rising leverage. If it is supported by excessive leverage, effectively shifting future consumption to the present, China could face a significant slowdown or even a major crisis.

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.

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.