Poor s raised its credit rating to investment grade.

Yet, by some estimates, over half the countries that have accepted Belt and Road projects have credit ratings below investment grade and the risk for bad debt is huge.

Brazil should have been downgraded below investment grade last year, as the economy struggled with a widening fiscal deficit, a growing economy wide debt burden, and a weak and worsening business environment.

Transparency International produces an annual ranking of corruption perceptions, measuring the public s view of the extent of corruption in a country.

Consider Uruguay, whose rating was downgraded to selective default for two weeks while the exchange was occurring, and then was upgraded (though not to investment grade) when, thanks to the exchange s success, its public debt became more sustainable.

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Her political rating is sturdy, too.

What made Fink s elevation of art to investment grade status so surprising is that no one of his stature had been brave enough to say it before.

That's not a very nice thing to do, the investment banker added.

Even the US lost its AAA standing.

His ratings have dipped below 50 for the first time.

One of the most daunting challenges for poor countries is the need to accumulate investment capital under conditions of low savings without incurring too much foreign debt.

That is evident from their credit ratings.

Sooner or later, Putin s approval rating will plummet.

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Both neo Keynesians and supply siders have misunderstood the investment paralysis.

This money will be used to compensate human rights activists and to establish a trust fund.

Third, governments must counteract the sharp drop in consumption and investment demand.

Already, 200 billion of EIB bonds are available.

and had risen to the league of the world's biggest banks as an investment bank.

In the US, the approval rating of Congress is at a record low of 14 .

One can find a ranking for almost every form of human activity.

In other words, there is no basis to claim that Putin s approval rating is declining.

The ranking metric we used belongs to Yandex, which describes its methodology as follows

He has been rated as high as 2709 (in the January 2013 list).

After leaving the Senate Gregg became an advisor to the investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Ten universities in China and Hong Kong are ranked higher.

But to make ratings work, the raters need to be rated.

Poor s has put the already low A rating under review for a possible downgrade.

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Hence, the fall of a large bank or investment bank was inevitable as a catalyst to action.

And, with approval ratings in the single digits, there s nowhere to go but up.

Poor s lowered its rating on long term US debt from AAA to AA .

The review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 73 approval rating, based on 41 reviews.

New stability and confidence are underpinning buoyant investment and (amounting to the same thing) reducing capital flight.

When countries suffer from low investment demand, freeing up capital inflows does not do much good.

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He's a world class scientist.

He reached the last level.

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In the midst of the shutdown, the Republican Party s popular approval rating sank to barely a quarter of the national electorate, a historic low, while the approval rating for Congress as a whole stood at just 5 .

Since then, his administration s approval rating has dropped from 80 to 50 .