That financial institutions are inherently prone to excess and vulnerable to crisis warrants appropriate supervision and prudential regulation.

The East Asian crisis has had devastating effects on the poor and vulnerable groups.

Developing countries were particularly vulnerable to the type of market volatility which had led to the crisis in East Asia.

There was unanimity that special efforts need to be made to protect the poor and other vulnerable groups in times of crisis.

(a) To ensure timely intervention, particularly to those who are most vulnerable and or in a crisis situation, by providing the following services

Expressing its appreciation to the Afghan staff of the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations, who have continued to provide assistance to vulnerable populations throughout the current crisis,

As a stand alone entity, it was then vulnerable to market swings. A crisis sufficient to threaten the entire financial system was required to precipitate the inevitable conglomeratization.

As the statistics reveal, the phenomenon remains a genuine public health crisis and affects, in particular, the most vulnerable populations in developing countries.

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell it in their masterly book This Time is Different, there is no secure way of short circuiting a deep banking crisis. The crisis originates with excessive debt accumulation, which makes economies vulnerable to crises of confidence.

Groups vulnerable to discrimination

Access to vulnerable populations

From Constitutional Crisis to European Crisis

Though some may speak of turning the corner to recovery, we see a new crisis emerging. According to our recent report, Voices of the Vulnerable, the near poor are becoming the new poor.

Vulnerable?

The 2005 United Nations consolidated appeal for Côte d'Ivoire was relaunched on 4 February and calls for 39 million to respond to the humanitarian needs of over 3.5 million vulnerable persons affected by the crisis.

N01 Emergency assistance to vulnerable groups

That's what happens to buildings. They're vulnerable.

Young people are particularly vulnerable to unemployment.

Obviously, they were very vulnerable to exploitation.

Malnutrition makes children particularly vulnerable to diseases.

The IMF has already moved quickly to help many of our member countries in this time of crisis, including by protecting social spending in order to cushion the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable. The lending reforms adopted this week will enable us to be even more flexible and responsive in assisting even more countries.

Displaced populations are more vulnerable to pressures to return.

And we're vulnerable.

We're still vulnerable.

Youth is vulnerable.

Protecting the vulnerable

Other vulnerable groups

Small, vulnerable economies

9. Vulnerable groups

V. VULNERABLE GROUPS

B. Vulnerable groups

You're awfully vulnerable.

Legislation and legal instruments to protect vulnerable youth

But kids are more vulnerable to brain injury.

They are also most vulnerable to natural disasters.

E. Measures taken to protect particularly vulnerable children

Access to services, especially for the most vulnerable.

(e) Promoting international cooperation to assist vulnerable countries in enhancing their resilience and managing climate risks, giving priority to the most vulnerable countries.

Since the mid 1990s, women and children have become much more vulnerable for a variety of reasons. First, the crisis has pushed many women and children to leave their homes in search of employment and food elsewhere.

The Board was nevertheless concerned by the considerable uncertainty over the short term prospects for LDCs their fragile economies are particularly vulnerable to exogenous shocks such as the Asian financial crisis, declining commodity prices and natural calamities.

The current financial and economic crisis facing many countries is affecting even the advanced economies of the world, not to mention the vulnerable and weaker ones. This calls for much needed reforms in the global financial system.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to solve the democracy crisis.

The rich are vulnerable to the threats that attack the poor and the strong are vulnerable to the weak, as well as vice versa.

Imagine how vulnerable the system is to deliberate attacks.

Pregnant women are vulnerable to long waits at checkpoints.