Funding Gap

The Russell Group of 20 research-led universities, which includes Oxford and Cambridge, said the funding gap would be "really challenging" .

However, the total cost of its project is estimated at $511m, so it has a funding gap of about $150m.

That customer funding gap had been made possible by capital inflows from around the world, which have now more or less dried up.

Publicly, the IMF had been threatening to withhold its share of the money unless Greece's funding gap for 2012 is closed.

"With regard to the funding gap, I'm convinced that part of the solution is to have more listed companies, " Mr Gorgels said.

So closing the customer funding gap in the initial years can only be achieved by reducing assets and liabilities.

Internal government estimates put the NCSSF's shortfall at close to $350bn and the funding gap is expected to worsen as the population ages.

There were even talks that cash-strapped companies would have to sell part of their business to plug their funding gap.

Spanish banks lend more than they gather in deposits, creating a funding gap that must be filled by wholesale markets (see chart).

If country plans were in line with the Global Plan, the funding gap would be much larger than reported in 2007.

But Nafo-Traore says a challenge also lies in a continuing funding gap. She is looking to the private sector to make up the shortfall.

But how could the infrastructure funding gap be closed without putting an additional fiscal burden on already cash-strapped governments?

But according to Deepak Jain of Edelweiss Securities in Mumbai, Tata Motors faces a funding gap this year of at least $3. 4 billion.

'If European markets close, they don't want to have a funding gap. They want to be ready, ' said a person involved in some of the talks.

The funding gap = the deficiency in financing for good companies who otherwise deserve credit ?

The 2011 portfolio of projects has secured only about a quarter of the needed resources, leaving a funding gap of $367 million.

Resource-rich countries like Nigeria and Zambia face a more manageable funding gap of 4 percent of GDP.

This funding gap leaves many VC-backed technology companies facing a cash crunch this year.

No matter the number of attorneys there is no way we can completely fill the funding gap with just volunteer attorneys.

But the funding gap will not be filled easily.

Take the recent agreement to reduce the funding gap in this fiscal year by $38bn.

We have to close the funding gap and get the gel to women.

For both efforts, we face a substantial funding gap.

Besides, Italy does not have a short-term funding gap, but a long-term solvency problem.

Despite progress in securing additional funding, HBCs reported a funding gap of US$ 119 million in 2005.

The result is that private equity and foreign property funds are now looking to plug the funding gap.

That is why meeting the funding gap for TB research and development is essential to provide us with new and more effective tools.

Our foundation gives about $200 million each year. But the campaign still faces a 2011-12 funding gap of $720 million.

Only five HBCs reported no funding gap for 2008 (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, and South Africa)