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By the time the AU acted, criticizing the perceived bias of the ICC, support for the court had waned enough that African leaders knew that they had leverage.
Its handling of Mugabe over the past eight years has actually underplayed its leverage.
Yet the mantle of a regional power sometimes requires using that leverage for the greater good of the region.
As for Turkey’s leverage in the current crisis, it is worth remembering that the country has a large and youthful population, and thus the potential to grow into a much larger economy in the future.
But, now that a Russian-American agreement allows supply flights to Afghanistan to go through Russian airspace, it is clear that Russia sought only to monopolize the military cargo transportation routs in order to gain leverage over the United States.
Given India’s religious, caste, and linguistic divides, politicians saw how easily they could leverage even a small following into votes.
When its equity and property bubbles burst in the early 1990s, the keiretsu system – “main banks” and their tightly connected nonbank corporates – imploded under the deadweight of excess leverage.
Policymakers know that excessive debt brings financial fragility, of course, and some efforts at reform over the past decade have aimed to scale back leverage.
And, because large financial firms do very well with a great deal of leverage, they continue to devote abundant lobbying resources to resisting efforts to ensure that they are better capitalized (with more shareholder equity relative to their total balance sheets).
Established nonfinancial firms have learned the hard way that they need to be careful with leverage and keep large cash cushions.
To achieve this, we must use innovative mechanisms to leverage and mobilize global funds, especially from the private sector.
And, so far, EU leaders have failed to leverage renewed support for the European project to argue for change.
This reflects leverage far in excess of emerging-economy norms, with China’s debt-to-GDP ratio up from around 130% in 2008 to over 220% today.
Much of that leverage is held by local governments and companies that used it to fund investment projects – projects that are now, in many cases, earning low or negative returns.
Leverage is one of the worst.
These subsidies are dangerous; they encourage excessive risk-taking and very high leverage – meaning a lot of debt relative to equity for each bank and far too much debt relative to the economy as a whole.
So Chinese county governments used land as leverage in order to attract foreign-direct investment, particularly in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta in the1980s and 1990s.
Of course, such competition carries risks – in particular, short-sighted efforts to boost growth in ways that exacerbate misallocation of resources, overcapacity, and high financial leverage.
Moreover, Trump is squandering US leverage.
That gives Kim substantial leverage.
I have argued elsewhere that the accumulation of reserves, despite its economic costs, gave Brazil political leverage internationally, by reducing its dependence on multilateral organizations.
The first round of fiscal stimulus, supported by credit easing, led local governments and the financial sector to increase their leverage ratios.
As a result, by 2010, China’s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30%.
Development banks, for example, can help leverage private-sector investment.
Moreover, the government will be more inclined to favor firms over which it has greater leverage, such as SOEs.
China will resist deploying its full leverage, lest it undermine North Korea’s stability and end up worse off as a result.
In short, for the first time since the end of World War II, no country or strong alliance of countries has the political will and economic leverage to secure its goals on the global stage.
If they perceive improvements in their terms of trade as permanent – a view that gains traction as prices climb – increases in consumption and investment tend to outpace income gains, and public and private leverage grows.
Corporate leverage in China rose from 2.4 times equity in 2007 to 3.5 times last year – well above American and European levels.
One in five listed corporations carries gross leverage of more than eight times equity and earns less than two times interest coverage, weakening considerably these companies’ resilience to growth shocks.
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