Leverage is down sharply.

Leverage is down sharply.

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

We need partnerships that leverage the knowledge and solutions that come from local communities.

The EU has even more leverage.

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

But the greatest leverage will undoubtedly come from policies that foster ongoing and rapid migration from the countryside to the cities.

In a surveillance society, they become leverage.

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

Excessive leverage needs to be reined in.

It was all the leverage he needed.

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

In Switzerland, the leverage ratio is now central.

If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners leverage.

UNOPS provides start up funds from its administrative budget only in order to leverage the first one or two projects.

So what should developing countries do, aside from maintaining sound macroeconomic policies, curbing excessive domestic financial leverage, and attempting to isolate themselves from volatile capital inflows?

With little leverage, Iran s leaders would then have two options.

So they also need clear, albeit different, limits on leverage.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

Development banks, for example, can help leverage private sector investment.

The US lacks investment in infrastructure and has excess investment in financial derivatives the result of opaque leverage from over consumption.

We need greater innovation in finding solutions. We need partnerships that leverage the knowledge and solutions that come from local communities.

By hinging China s market access on progress in resolving political, territorial, and water disputes, India can prevent China from fortifying its leverage.

Corporate leverage in China rose from 2.4 times equity in 2007 to 3.5 times last year well above American and European levels.

So, a normal commercial bank has nine to 10 times leverage.

Banks balance sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.

Those investments will leverage billions in private sector commitments, starting with more than 9 billion from a range of companies, including General Electric.

This week Standard Poor's, the rating agency, cited increasing household leverage, mainly from rising mortgages, as a risk factor for Asian banks creditworthiness.

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.

Thus, in gross terms, the leverage effects are larger than currently reported.

Nowadays, the West does not have the leverage to enforce these conditions.

Finally, the leverage of financial investments remains very low compared to other countries.

China remains the only foreign power with any real leverage over Kim s government.

Can Rome leverage its richly layered history to sustain itself economically and ecologically?

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.

Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.

There are many reasons for the underpricing of risk and the rise in leverage.

This ended up giving him control in Telecom Italia with a leverage of 26.

They should consciously recognize that they've built an appointment dynamic and leverage the games.

If one assumes greater leverage for private sector investment, the number would be higher.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

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.