The amount of finance leveraged

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

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

Because doodling is so universally accessible and it is not intimidating as an art form, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Gyourko s own 2013 study concludes that the FHA, now effectively leveraged 30 to one on guarantees of home mortgages that are themselves leveraged 30 to one, is underwater to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. He wants the FHA shut down and replaced with a subsidized saving program that does not attempt to compete with the private sector in evaluating mortgage risk.

Uncertainty about how, exactly, the liabilities of highly leveraged banks and over leveraged peripheral governments are to be guaranteed is shrinking the supply of safe savings vehicles at a time when macroeconomic rebalancing calls for it to be rising. And the rapid reductions in budget deficits that European governments are now pledged to undertake can only increase the likelihood of a full double dip recession.

Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe s highly leveraged banks. In a globalized world, problems in one part of the system quickly reverberate elsewhere.

According to the report presented by the GEF to the SBI at its fifth session, the US 528 million had then leveraged an additional US 2,730 million in project financing.

10. Invites the International Monetary Fund to determine additional regulatory and disclosure measures to ensure greater transparency of financial market participants, including highly leveraged operations of the international institutional investors

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.

Many homebuilders are near bankrupt, as are some hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions. Even in the US corporate sector, defaults will rise, owing to sharply higher corporate bond spreads.

For SMEs, a shortage of customers, not a shortage of credit, constrained borrowing, employment, and output. And the customers were absent because the pre crisis credit boom had left them over leveraged.

UNIFEM supported the participation of the Positive Women's Network in India in major national and international meetings, its joining of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and leveraged support from donors.

UNDP has leveraged the pro bono services of an external independent firm to conduct a preliminary risk inventory and high level road map for the implementation of enterprise risk management in UNDP.

The Multilateral Fund does not usually seek or assist in the arrangement of co financing however, there have been projects where resulting savings in energy usage have leveraged funding from other institutions.

So, I am very interested, from the beginning, that how how our knowledge about everyday objects and gestures, and how we use these objects, can be leveraged to our interactions with the digital world.

In Europe, banks supply roughly 70 of the credit to European economies, compared to 30 in the US. But many European banks are over leveraged zombies, kept alive by emergency public infusions of liquidity.

Yes, companies have more hedging tools at their disposal. But the ability to manage downside risk comprehensively is still limited by incomplete longer term markets and public private partnerships that cannot be sufficiently leveraged.

(c) Strong political support for UNCDF from the LDCs and the Group of 77, which can be leveraged to generate fresh funds from traditional and non traditional donors to finance investments in the LDCs.

Resources from Governments and development partners will be leveraged by providing procurement services that combine the global procurement and field office operational capabilities of UNICEF, ensuring effectiveness of in country logistics (see also chapter V).

The financial sector s inexcusable recklessness, given free rein by mindless deregulation, was the obvious precipitating factor of the crisis. The legacy of excess real estate capacity and over leveraged households makes recovery all the more difficult.

The United Nations Works Programme has leveraged its award winning television programmes, website features and promotional products to put a human face on the work of the United Nations and reconnect audiences with its core values.

Since the pilot phase, GEF funding, together with an additional US 2.6 billion leveraged from multilateral, bilateral and other sources of financing, amounted to total project financing of over US 3 billion in the climate change area.

Similarly, any financial institution that bets on a sharp rise in long term interest rates over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way also puts its survival at risk. For where should they park their money?

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.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital. They get bigger returns when things go well and receive state support when fortune turns against them heads they win, tails we lose.

Indeed, at the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, gold prices fell sharply a few times. In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.

Operationally, UNDP has always leveraged and will continue to leverage the assistance of the Office of Legal Services in resolving issues relating to the exercise of privileges, immunities and facilities as articulated in the principle of most favoured treatment .

Highly leveraged local governments could not tolerate higher interest rates or an appreciating currency, and they were adamant about continuing land sales and opposing property taxes. They feared the financial burden of new requirements to provide social services to urban migrants.

Congress created the Fed, which means that Congress can un create it. By assuming away the damage that highly leveraged megabanks can do, the myth of a good crisis merely makes political pressure on central banks all the more likely.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets. And some emerging market economies despite massive IMF support will experience a severe financial crisis with contagious effects on other economies.