The amount of finance leveraged

In several countries, debt financed housing booms have left households and companies over leveraged and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt. As a result, there are likely to be too few investors and too many savers.

Similar reckless lending practices prevailed in the leveraged buyout market, where private equity firms take over public companies and finance the deals with high debt ratios the leveraged loan market, where banks provide financing to private equity firms and the asset backed commercial paper market, where banks use off balance sheet schemes to borrow very short term.

During the 1990s, large business groups of the Republic of Korea (chaebols) expanded quickly through financing from domestic banks, becoming highly leveraged (with an average debt to equity ratio of about 400 per cent in 1997).

The partnerships have leveraged additional funding from the Government of the Netherlands.

Core result 2 Pilot models and lessons leveraged for policy impact and replication

We leveraged that 10,000 seed grant more than 300 times into a 3 million park.

The Bank's contribution of 60 million to these projects leveraged more than 115 million from other donors.

As UNDP streamlines its performance management systems, corporate learning strategies will be leveraged to further strengthen staff competencies.

These leading, innovative, nonprofit folks, who are using business skills in a very leveraged way to solve social problems.

This memorandum of understanding has leveraged additional funding for water for Asian cities from the Government of the Netherlands.

Debt sustainability and debt relief

But it was a bubble and a highly leveraged one at that. While periodic bubbles may be unavoidable, and no bubble is without consequences, a highly leveraged bubble tends to cause far more damage, owing to its impact on the real economy and the duration of the deleveraging process.

Again, the situation can be kept going for a time by resorting to consumer debt finance, but eventually consumers become over leveraged and curtail their purchases. Indeed, the Keynesian and Hayekian explanations of the origins of the crisis are actually not very different, with over indebtedness playing the key role in both accounts.

The public losses are massive in comparison roughly 6 trillion, if we limit ourselves just to the increase in federal government debt. And leading bank executives still insist that they should be allowed to run highly leveraged global businesses, in which they are paid based on their return on equity unadjusted for any risk.

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External debt and debt servicing costs had also risen.

Debt for equity swaps Other debt for development swaps

LDPs will be leveraged to inform and influence national policy dialogue on decentralization and to promote replication by government and other development partners.

This financing has leveraged an additional US 2,730 million so that a total of US 3,258 million is available for climate change projects.

Most economists failed to foresee the economic dynamics that actually led to the crisis, because they failed to pay enough attention to the rapid increase in US total debt. Instead, they focused exclusively on US foreign debt, ignoring household debt (mortgage and consumer debt), public debt, business debt, and financial debt.

We are not asking for debt forgiveness or debt cancellation.

Overall, short term debt and total debt service also declined.

Human and financial resources are leveraged through work and cost sharing arrangements with internal and external partners to ensure value per project dollar spent.

Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, publishes his own calculation of capital levels at the world s largest banks, and these data are now available through the end of 2014. The most leveraged big US bank, Morgan Stanley, has less than 4 equity, meaning that 96 of its balance sheet is some form of debt.

Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy outs (LBOs). With a worsening recession, many LBOs that were loaded with too much debt and not enough equity will fail as firms with lower profits or higher losses become unable to service their loans.

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Debt relief

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Within the United Nations system, many agencies have leveraged the events of the last year to start new, or to highlight existing, road safety activities.

Options for lower debt burdens on Governments of heavily indebted developing countries include debt cancellation and debt swaps for sustainable development.

This led to increased concern about the levels of internal debt and total debt and the implications for servicing the debt.

To address the debt burden problem, many African countries at first resorted to repeated debt rescheduling which focused on debt service flows, resulting in steadily increasing debt stocks and related service payments.

The GEF could also generate larger environmental resources if it were able to raise the ratio of leveraged, private co finance in the projects it underwrites.

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