Properly regulated, derivatives — financial instruments that hedge risk — help to stabilize the economy.
The HAART expansion based on the 2008 IAS-USA guidelines will therefore require the development of a sustained and intensified strategy to identify HIV infected individuals and those at risk, helping them to stabilize their lives and facilitate their sustained engagement in appropriate health care and support, all of this within a voluntary and fully consented framework.
The report suggests that the European Central Bank inadvertently encouraged institutions to increase their risk as it tried to stabilize the banking system.
PAGE A12 U.N. AIDE DEFENDS KARZAI Kai Eide, the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan, came to the defense of Hamid Karzai, the country's embattled president, saying that his international partners risk jeopardizing their efforts to stabilize and rebuild the country unless they conduct their military operations with more care and cultural sensitivity.
Some Western officials fear the drawn-out process risks derailing American and NATO efforts to stabilize the country, by diminishing the government's standing among Afghans and undermining support for troop increases in the United States and Europe, where disapproval of the eight-year-old war is rising.
There are growing fears among United States and European officials that the fraud and a drawn-out recount or runoff risks derailing American and NATO efforts to stabilize the country by hurting the Afghan government's already low credibility among its people and weakening support for troop increases in Western countries where polls show growing disillusionment with the war.
And while investors have lowered the high interest rates they had been charging Italy and Spain, taking them out of a serious danger zone, a failure to stabilize the euro zone risks reversing that pattern, Mr. Zhu said.
Citing a growing risk that Greece will fail to stabilize its debt position without a debt restructuring, Moody's cut Greece's rating to Caa1 from the previous level of B1, bringing it seven notches into junk territory.
Full coverage appears to stabilize bank risk only during the financial crisis period.
As Sarah Lueck, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently pointed out, insurers that wish to stabilize the risk pool need to encourage more, not fewer, enrollments.
