This tense situation is aggravating the precariousness of the indigenous populations living in that region.

In his remarks at the opening of the Forum, Mr. Martti Ahtisaari emphasized the precariousness of global security.

Employment is increasingly precariousness. And where unemployment is preferred to universal job insecurity, it has become impossible to suppress.

52. The other factor testifying to the precariousness of the judicial system is the number of dismissals of magistrates.

The increase is closely linked with malnutrition and tuberculosis, but also fuelled by numerous cases of violence against women, the precariousness of living conditions and ignorance.

With regard to unemployment and the precariousness of education and social life, Haitian youth are now considering the best type of programme to adopt for our circumstances.

The launch of five Qassam rockets into Israel five days after the signing of the truce suggests its precariousness. So can it last and evolve into something durable?

The instability of the lead agency in the agricultural sector and the precariousness of the resources for the implementation of the policies for the effective mainstreaming of women.

In many cases it has also resulted in the bypassing of labour legislation and a failure to provide social benefits, which increased the precariousness of jobs and insecurity of livelihoods.

Keynes saw that it is the financial markets precariousness which creates no small part of our contemporary problem of securing sufficient investment. That rings truer today more than 70 years later than in his own day.

The situation, far from being merely the result of present circumstances, clearly reveals the extreme fragility of our system of production and, furthermore, the precariousness of the situation and the living conditions of the people of the Niger.

In fact, the harmful effects of unemployment and underemployment and the precariousness of the employment of vast sectors of the population, in particular young people and women, constitute one of the biggest obstacles to the achievement of social development with equity.

In terms of a trend, part time contracts are on the rise in both groups, which leads to the conclusion that the increasing precariousness of employment is affecting both women and men, but not to the same extent (table 11.4). Table 11.4.

This is because Krugman refuses to take seriously Keynes s crucial distinction between risk and uncertainty. In my view, Keynes s major contribution to economic theory was to emphasize the extreme precariousness of the basis of knowledge on which our estimates of prospective yield have to be made.

Because most people s incomes are stagnant and being eroded as their mortgage payments rise, consumption is bound to fall, yielding lower growth and employment. A recession will only increase job precariousness and unemployment, creating social tensions that will not, of course, help to ease the financial crisis.

Soon after World War II, physicists at the University of Chicago started a journal called the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to promote arms control. The logo on the Bulletin s cover is a clock, the proximity of whose hands to midnight indicates the editors judgment of the precariousness of the world situation.

While it had resulted in increased awareness of the adverse impact of environmental degradation, and the integration of an environment component in national development policies, nothing had been done about the growing poverty, the marginalization of more than 1 million human beings living on less than a dollar a day, the precariousness of natural resources and the declining biodiversity.

The solutions under consideration should continue to take into account the situation of host communities to ensure that the precariousness of their living conditions is not increased, especially with regard to the availability and management of land and the ecosystem in general, an issue which is often the subject of tensions and disputes in many areas of Guinea Forestière where local communities have been hosting Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees for years.

But let us simply agree with the report that key forces transforming the world suggest the need for an intergovernmental organization as a vital and effective instrument of international cooperation. In the course of arguing for a more sustainable and more stable Organization this past year, Member States and the Secretary General alike have been seized by its fiscal precariousness. Admittedly, my delegation has shared the pressures from our Capitol on this point.

In my view, Keynes s major contribution to economic theory was to emphasize the extreme precariousness of the basis of knowledge on which our estimates of prospective yield have to be made. The fact of their ignorance forces investors to fall back on certain conventions, of which the most important are that the present will continue into the future, that existing share prices sum up future prospects, and that if most people believe something, they must be right.