Unlike the stock market bubble of the 1990s, which created revolutionary forms of dot-com, biochemical, computer-communication and knowledge-based wealth, this bubble was a housing-consumption binge based on inadequate equity by home owners, bank lenders, mortgage repackaging magicians and insurers.
More crucially, the sector's 11% reflects inadequate levels of equity (in other words, capital) rather than high returns.
Although there is clear evidence of the potential positive effects of fee exemptions on health outcomes, top-down policies implemented without careful planning and engagement of stakeholders have encountered many challenges such as confusion or lack of information among the population regarding overlapping policies and inadequate measures to overcome equity issues [ 21].
Dismissing those who lose their livelihoods as "inefficient incumbents facing increased foreign competition" [ 25](p. 96) is an inadequate response to the potential health equity consequences of such transitions.
If commercial banks are not pressed by western governments to accept a straightforward package of debt reduction, they will fight to collect fully, and, failing that, will press for debt-equity swaps and other inadequate approaches to debt relief.
Health care systems in such settings are characterized by limited infrastructure, lack of equity, management capacity issues, and inadequate disease information (1 ).
Solving the problem of unequal schools and inadequate outcomes requires many actions, from ensuring financial equity for the Bridgeports and Hartfords to better K-12 programs to having expectations of a well-rounded education for all children.
Clearly, inadequate leverage is bad for shareholders, for too much equity leads to meagre returns.
One to watch Private Equity (W Jarvis) Finished strongly over an inadequate 12 furlongs at Yarmouth on Monday, looks ready to win once upped in trip.
Primary care, an essential determinant of health system equity, efficiency, and effectiveness, is threatened by inadequate supply and distribution of the provider workforce.
Since the ENC practices were inadequate among both the poor and least poor, to ensure equity programme implementation should focus on universal coverage and not simply target the poorest members of the community [ 33].
