Providian lent extensively to sub-prime (high-risk) consumers and has been bitten by extraordinarily high charge-offs and delinquent loans.
With debt high and growth sub-par, every country wants to export its way back to health.
Regional banks have also steered clear of the other main area where credit is deteriorating, sub-prime lending (high-interest loans to borrowers with patchy credit).
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There has been a rapid expansion of the Mozambican electricity grid, and the latest figures show that 36% of the population have electricity, either from the grid or from solar panels, in their homes, a high figure by sub-Saharan African standards.
Dr Michel Alary, an Aids specialist in the department of medicine at Laval University and the Saint-Sacrement Hospital Research Centre, said that the extremely high temperatures in sub-Saharan African countries could prevent the gel working there if it requires room temperature to be effective.
By 2014, our goal is to halve malaria illnesses and deaths in 70 percent of at-risk populations, by accelerating and intensifying malaria control efforts in the high burden countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Some regions, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, still rank high whichever index is used.
The ratio of young women to young men infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa can be as high as eight to one.
Dengue fever, a viral infection endemic to tropical and sub-tropical climates, is characterized by high fever, body aches and intense headache.
Crown offices are Post Office branches directly managed by the company - as opposed to locally-run by sub-post offices - mainly based in major High Streets.
Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor.
Some 20 million to 25 million people have died of Aids and at least 40 million more are infected with HIV, with sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean having particularly high rates of infection.
But a high challenge by James on Max Evans gave sub Ruaridh Jackson the penalty to edge the home side in front.
Two years after his brain-cancer diagnosis, he recently ran a sub-five-minute mile for the first time since high school.
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The good news is that high default rates may be less painful in places whose sub-prime problem sits atop an economic boom.
The refineries can receive oil via sub-sea pipeline infrastructure, and currently commercial stockpiles are relatively high (national stockpiles are at 1.1 billion barrels).
WoW launched at a time when most competitors were also sub based, or putting out cheap gimmicks low on content and high on advertising.
Since 2006, tourism spending in East African coastal countries has risen 25% more slowly than other sub-Saharan African nations, mainly because of fewer arrivals from high-income citizens of OECD countries.
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High-end appliances are a must, with owners installing Sub-Zero refrigerators, six-burner ranges by Viking and Dynasty (to name a few), and double dishwashers from Miele.
Therefore, fuel buyers that rely on manual processes, spreadsheets, and sub-standard industry practices risk buying a load of fuel on the high end of a price swing every other day.
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Making the investment case for the extra kit and platform upgrades required to squeeze the remaining billions of barrels out of sub-sea reservoirs is harder to do when tax is not only high but rising unpredictably, and when there are so many other investment options around the world.
An effective acoustic seal allows for a high level of sound isolation, further reinforcing the headphones' powerful sub-bass reproduction.
During the High Court hearing, the group said the JCPCT had produced "sub-scores" measuring the quality of service under various criteria but had not disclosed them to consultees.
" Responding to the run-up in WLT, Li said, "Walter has outperformed its peers because it has successfully transformed itself from a sub-prime lending and homebuilding and coal business to a pure play in high margin metallurgical coal business.
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At the core of the Sub-Zero is a series of TEC peltier coolers that work in conjunction with other high-end liquid cooling components.
Bank-issued credit card lending to sub-prime consumers jumped 41% between 2010 and 2011 hitting a four-year high in December 2011 with 1.1 million new bank credit cards issued.
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According to the Gates Foundation website, the focus of the family planning initiative will be on urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, areas where maternal and infant mortality rates are high and contraception use is low.
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