At the same time, sub Saharan Africa has stagnated.

The level of response had stagnated, however.

Savings rates in Africa are low and have stagnated.

Agricultural and industrial output stagnated, and the balance of trade gradually worsened.

Today, this promise remains unfulfilled. Development of nuclear technology has stagnated, with nuclear power plants still using technology developed a half century ago.amp 160

The level of response of the international community to the 2004 appeals had stagnated.

As a result, many believed that globalization has stagnated. Moreover, in the new phase, many developed and developing countries hold different attitudes toward globalization and its pattern.

Moreover ODA, which was an extremely important source of external resources for many developing countries, had stagnated.

De facto condition, considering the statistics in some areas of life, indicates that the position of women in BiH society has stagnated, particularly after the war, and their participation in public life has been reduced to the disturbingly low level.

GENEVA As the United Nations Conference on Disarmament begins a seven week session in Geneva, its future is on the line. Whereas countries and civil society initiatives are on the move, the Conference has stagnated.

There are several products and sectors where tariffs are particularly high and where trade has stagnated or even regressed between 1990 and 1996, sometimes contrary to the general trend of rapid growth of overall import demand.

Its budget has stagnated for most of the past decade, except for years when it was dramatically reduced, such as in 2013. This has forced productive research laboratories to close, putting potentially life saving research like that on an Ebola vaccine on the back burner.

These rapid changes have rattled global financial markets and spooked investors, reducing their appetite for risk a cautious attitude that has been reflected in emerging markets. Investors have sat on the sidelines, and the MSCI index that tracks returns on emerging market equities has stagnated.

Meanwhile, direct taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline despite the moot claim that lower direct taxation ensures investment and growth. As a result, the tax GDP ratio in most countries in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America has stagnated or even fallen.

Processes of normalization have stagnated because of a lack of adequate support or an inability to get the next phases under way.

The one fifth poorest countries achieved absolute growth in the sixties and have stagnated (in absolute terms) in the last 15 years.

Oil and other commodity prices are likely to fall further, and oil and gas production have already stagnated. Putin has turned his back on the World Trade Organization and is promoting protectionism, which will also harm growth.

The Commission noted with concern that the level of response of the international community to its emergency appeals has stagnated, in that as of mid September 2005 only 93.1 million had been pledged and 56.8 million actually received.

The reform of the health system stagnated in recent years, but has now been reactivated by my Government through the strengthening of public policies to improve basic health indicators, as reflected in the latest United Nations Human Development Report.

For the past few years, the world of disarmament has stagnated, due to the inability of the parties to agree on a common agenda, on how to face the different challenges we face and on the priorities for our work.

Cumulative figures for the last 30 years vary from 200 300 trillion. For this reason, consumption the main driver of economic growth has stagnated since 2000, while unemployment rates have risen almost everywhere, creating instability that affects even those who still have jobs.

While positive growth rates of real GDP of over 7 per cent annually are noted in most years since 1992 (generated in construction, agriculture and public services), Gross National Product (GNP), has stagnated owing to a contraction in labour income from Israel since 1992.

Indeed, for thousands of years, until the Industrial Revolution, incomes stagnated. Then per capita income soared, increasing year after year, interrupted only by the occasional effects of cyclical fluctuations.

Over the past three decades, Africa's shares of world output and trade have exhibited sharply declining trends, and per capita incomes in many countries have stagnated or even declined.

Indeed, indicators of economic freedom and competitiveness compiled by the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the World Economic Forum, and others show that Taiwan s relative ranking has stagnated or even declined on Chen s watch. This stands in sharp contrast to the communist mainland, which has reinvented itself to become one of world s more open, competitive, and dynamic economies.

While their personal wealth increased, living standards for everyone else either stagnated or, for lower income groups, declined. So, as Pakistan negotiated its political transition, it experienced significant economic decline.

Yields per hectare of cereal crops have either stagnated or declined largely because prices for seed, fertilizer, machinery and irrigation have increased to levels beyond the reach of resource poor farmers.

3. While the need for investment is growing, domestic savings rate in Africa has stagnated at around 16 17 per cent of GDP, reflecting mainly the low propensity to save because of the low level of incomes, which cannot meet even the basic needs of the vast number of people.

I think we're all in this room, probably, because we know that, in fact, Africa is the only region in the world where hunger and malnutrition are projected to go up over the next 10 years, where the food import bill is now double what it was 20 years ago, where food production per capita has stagnated, and where fertilizer use has declined rather than increased.

Many economists are becoming even more pessimistic, pointing to Japan as evidence that, after three decades, China s breakneck growth may be coming to an end. Japan s economy, they point out, achieved more than 20 years of sustained rapid growth but, in the 40 years since 1973, annual growth has exceeded 5 only a handful of times, and output has stagnated for the last two decades.

But real wages climbed 154 for the top 1 of wage earners and 39 for the top 5 , while real wages stagnated for the bottom 20th percentile of workers and fell for the bottom tenth. Indeed, inequality in labor compensation has been the largest driver of yawning income inequality, except at the very top of the income distribution, where capital income has been more important.

Wealth and income have become increasingly concentrated, while middle class incomes in the developed world have stagnated. Tax avoidance by multinational companies is draining developing country incomes, limiting their ability to invest in education and infrastructure.

For example, in 2016, China is expected to replace the United States as the world s largest economy. And, by 2040, India s population will have reached 1.6 billion, surpassing China s, which will have stagnated a decade earlier.

We hope that this agenda will command increasing international support to curb the risks posed by these weapons. Secondly, the Middle East peace process has stagnated for about two years now due to the negative changes in the policies of Israel, represented by its refusal to comply with the principles underpinning the peace process agreed at Madrid and Oslo.

On the draft CPD for Ghana, delegations commented positively on the successful approach to the ACSD programme in the Upper East region, which had contributed to a significant reduction in child and infant mortality while national rates stagnated.

In line with this, while the middle class was the fastest growing segment of the African American population, it had been discovered that the greatest growth actually occurred in the top 40 per cent, while growth in the bottom 60 per cent stagnated if not declined.

The expenditures increased to 1,065 million in 2004, including those funded by a contribution from the United Nations regular budget (8 per cent increase), while resources stagnated at 1,007 million (0 per cent variance) when the regular budget resources are included for 2003 (as they are for 2004).

The expenditures increased to 1,065 million in 2004, including those funded by a contribution from the United Nations regular budget (8 per cent increase), while resources stagnated at 1,007 million (0 per cent variance) when the regular budget resources are included for 2003 (as they are for 2004).

The assassination of Aung San (Suu Kyi s father and the leader of Burma s independence movement) destabilized the country, paving the way for the army to take over. Under its long serving military junta, Burma shut itself off from the world, internalized its problems, and stagnated as the rest of Asia boomed.

The main culprit behind the languishing fortunes of America s middle class is slow wage growth. After peaking in the early 1970s, real (inflation adjusted) median earnings of full time workers aged 25 64 stagnated, partly owing to a slowdown in productivity growth and partly because of a yawning gap between productivity and wage growth.

Between 1990 and 2000, financing for environmental concerns followed roughly the same path as overall development assistance flows it stagnated. Aid for the environment averaged about 2 billion per year far short of what the international community, first at the Rio Summit in 1992 and then at the Johannesburg Summit ten years later, said was needed.

30. Although it was true that there was no automatic link between economic growth and human development, the developing countries were caught in a vicious circle, because sustained economic growth was also doubtful in the absence of a certain level of human development. Those countries either stagnated economically, realized marginal growth, or took a much longer route to sustained economic growth.

From Scotland and Catalonia to the borders of Ukraine, the politics of nationality flared, while Europe s economy stagnated hostage to a German inflation phobia that dates back to 1923. And, as the year unfolded, a new geopolitical tug of war between the continent s two early twentieth century giants, Germany and Russia, became apparent, while Europe s amnesiac political elite seemed to be fumbling on one front after another.

Although recent reports published in 2006 by the European Union s Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia and the Council of Europe s Human Rights Commissioner note some improvements, they indicate Roma living conditions have stagnated, if not deteriorated. Roma are still victims of discrimination in access to housing, employment, healthcare, and education, despite significant local efforts at the Council of Europe s instigation and with its support.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?