The trouble for Sarkozy will be producing those results during a time of economic slowdown, when inflation is hurting consumers and a lack of financial liquidity is stifling investment.
Based on his research with potential stove users and other relevant stakeholders in Darfur, Jan found several barriers to instituting a standard stoves-for-sale model, including a lack of financial liquidity.
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"The authorities' programme is intended to support Ukraine's return to economic and financial stability, by addressing financial sector liquidity and solvency problems, by smoothing the adjustment to large external shocks and by reducing inflation, " said Mr Strauss-Kahn.
One of the most effective ways to slow down or stop a financial crisis is liquidity.
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Give him an inch, and he will indeed take an hour to discuss the crucial but unglamorous restructuring of global financial institutions and liquidity ratios, or so it can seem.
This was a liquidity action, helpful in preventing a seize-up of financial markets and possible bank failures due to lack of liquidity, which comes with a financial crisis.
Moreover, banks needed bailouts fundamentally because of a lack of liquidity, and society and the financial system depended on preserving that liquidity.
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However, most global trade, Asia's external debt, foreign-exchange liquidity and financial assets are still denominated in dollars.
The central banks of the US, EU, England, Canada, Switzerland and Japan agreed to measures to ensure that financial markets have sufficient liquidity.
To increase liquidity, financial institutions will be allowed to invest in inflation-indexed bonds issued in the first half of the fiscal year, the central bank said.
"Some value-destroying firms and even banks, themselves, can and should fail through the process of improving financial market transparency and liquidity, " he said in a presentation last month.
The consumer asset backed securities market is a source of liquidity to financial institutions that provide federally guaranteed small business loans and consumer lending such as auto loans, student loans and credit cards.
Moreover, providing liquidity to financial institutions does not address directly instability or declining credit availability in critical nonbank markets, such as the commercial paper market or the market for asset-backed securities, both of which normally play major roles in the extension of credit in the United States.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
"These events illustrate just how critical not just capital, but liquidity is to the viability of financial firms, and now the evaporation of market confidence can lead to liquidity being impaired, " Cox says in that letter.
And he cautioned against central banks flooding the financial system with too much liquidity.
To combat deflation, the U.S. must pump badly needed liquidity into the financial markets.
They have already pumped extra liquidity into the financial system, which should stop the markets seizing up.
The dollar's dominance has much to do with the unrivalled depth and liquidity of its financial markets.
However, the Fed acted aggressively in 1987 to inject liquidity into the financial system and stabilized the situation.
They have meant more liquidity for the financial system and lower borrowing costs.
Liquidity may cause financial markets to rise in the short term, but I remain concerned about the long-term risks.
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It has used massive infusions of liquidity into the financial system as it has done during the current crisis.
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Before this week's liquidity actions, financial markets expected another three-quarter-point cut at the Fed's next rate-setting meeting on March 18th.
Recent market turmoil has required the Federal Reserve to adjust some of the mechanisms by which it provides liquidity to the financial system.
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Urbi said in mid-April it hired investment bank Rothschild Inc. to help review its finances and analyze alternatives to improve liquidity and restructure financial liabilities.
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Indian consumers have less disposable cash to splurge on gold jewelry for now as weak economic growth has dried up liquidity in the financial system.
As important as it is to restore the liquidity of the financial system, it is equally imperative to help economically viable households repair their balance sheets.
Moreover, backstopping the liquidity needs of financial institutions reduces funding stresses and, all else equal, should increase the willingness of those institutions to lend and make markets.
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