PE firms, of course, have seen tough financing markets before, and we expect they will continue to use competitive financing processes and creative debt structures to navigate these rough waters.
In recent years, many financially successful MFIs have seen their financing evolve from being grant-based and sourced from philanthropic foundations, to equity-based and sourced from outside investors.
The courts in Georgia, the report says, have seen their financing shrink by 25 percent the last two years, so their budget (which also pays for prosecutors) now constitutes less than 1 percent of the state's overall budget.
I have seen accounting, finance, economics and engineering courses credited toward the math requirement.
For Democrats, who have watched tobacco virtually disappear as a wedge issue and have seen campaign finance lose its footing, managed care appears to be a pulse-racing cause.
The network carriers have seen their finances improve somewhat from the disastrous years just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Town halls have seen their finances squeezed due to a sharp fall in grant funding from Whitehall and a three-year freeze in council tax, where councils are offered financial incentives not to raise bills.
"The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen," finance expert Sylvain R. Raynes told the New York Times about such deals.
So if your expectations were that this third FFD summit would reflect the significant changes we have seen in development finance, then your analysis may be somewhat more positive.
The crisis began in the private sector – in over-leveraged banks and wild financial speculation – but such was its impact on consumer spending, investment and trade that governments have seen their public finances dive deep into the red.
