Government loans were offered for housing construction.

Farmers borrow money from usurious private lenders. Unable to repay their loans, they kill themselves.

Unable to repay their loans, they kill themselves.

The fit would be particularly good in those countries where the Bank is already lending money.

This is why European banks are now reluctant to lend to each other.

Banks known to be healthy can borrow at much less than 5.25 .

Second, carry traders borrow short term money in Japan but may invest in longer term assets outside Japan.

Last but not least, we must provide loans to poor families to help them build a respectable life.

Greek banks would need to be recapitalized, but then they could make new loans again.

First, carry traders borrow in yen but invest in dollars and other currencies.

That is why it has become so difficult for small and medium sized companies to get new loans or to refinance existing loans.

There s a little something for everyone, including a stunning 15 billion in loan waivers for small farmers.

They will make loans on the basis of commercial criteria rather than relations with big state owned companies.

As far as education was concerned, it often meant committing resources to financial assistance for students, such as subsidized loans or scholarships.

In the past, banks kept loans and mortgages on their books, retaining the credit risk.

There were several ways through which the king could raise money for war, including customs duties, money lending and lay subsidies.

But there is no indication as to how much of the loan they would be required to hold, or for how long.

Unexpected yen appreciation could cause large carry trade exchange rate losses, as could unexpected closing of the interest rate gap with Japan.

Second, Mr. Zhu said he would wipe out the many bad debts of China's banks and international trust companies.

Borrowers, in turn, use these foreign loans to increase their accumulation of private assets held abroad, even as strict budget discipline and free capital movement implemented in line with IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs have led to skyrocketing interest rates.

Second, carry traders borrow short term money in Japan but may invest in longer term assets outside Japan.

An unwillingness to lend and expensive loans in foreign currencies are a real burden to eastern balance sheets.

Countries that cannot borrow in international markets in their own currency lack that power.

These institutions knew, or they should have known, that their loans and aid was not going to help the country's desperately poor people.

When the economy starts recovering, and banks start lending, will they be able to drain the liquidity smoothly out of the system?

Bank lending to sovereign borrowers has been a double disaster, fostering over indebtedness, especially in countries with irresponsible or corrupt governments.

Still, the Jubilee campaign's street protests began a healthy debate about the lending arrangements of the IMF World Bank.

Predatory lenders went further, offering negative amortization loans, so the amount owed went up year after year.

Collectively, they have extended hundreds of billions of dollars in short term loans to both traditional banks and complex, unregulated investment banks.

Instead of denominating a loan to Nigeria in terms of dollars, the Bank would denominate it in terms of the price of oil and lay off its exposure to the world oil price by issuing that same quantity of bonds denominated in oil.

If the Bank lends to multiple oil exporting countries, the market for oil bonds that it creates would be that much larger and more liquid.

Cash back loans to NINJA (No Income, No Job, and No Assets) customers that included voluminous fees to brokers and were securitized and structured up to 60 times do not represent any value.

This is because the destruction of confidence undermines the animal spirits of capitalism borrowers are unwilling to borrow and lenders are unwilling to lend.

Hal went to the bank for a loan, but with his business struggling, he didn't qualify.

Today s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.

After the burst of growth that arrived with hyperinflation's end, growth slowed, partly because firms in the country couldn't get adequate finance.

Citicorp CEO Vikram Pandit said as much when he indicated that it was cheaper to buy loans on the market than to make them.

The solution to the crisis was putatively facilitated by the European Central Bank s decision to lend unlimited funds to commercial banks for three year terms at very low rates.

The idea, I guess, was that the emirate s government would stand behind every loan, no matter how risky.

For a while this created a seemingly more stable banking system, but that system failed to lend to small and medium sized firms.

Moreover, since farmers who do have access to formal credit will have less incentive to repay their loans, banks will become more reluctant to lend to any farmers at all.

In the face of the difficulties of big automobile producers and smaller suppliers alike, many are demanding that, as part of the rescue package, the state should compel banks to lend.

But the Fed s low interest, non recourse loans to buy up toxic assets have not yet caused a stampede of participants.

The effect was especially pronounced in lending to non financial companies, whereas lending to households an area with traditionally lower internationalization remained more robust.

Migrant workers may send money home for a variety of reasons to maintain good family relations, to ensure an inheritance, or to re pay a loan from elders.