Major revenue areas import duties, accommodation tax and embarkation tax grew by 16.5, 65.1 and 15.2 per cent, respectively.10

Growth was mainly concentrated in the service sector, whose share of GDP progressively increased.

Capacity development in the environment sector has been a major growth area of United Nations system activity.

The key areas of increases are grouped under four main categories

The significant growth that has taken place in inter firm alliances is particularly notable in the area of information technology (IT).

Table 2 Summary of main areas of increase decrease

26. In yet another area, the mutual funds industry remains a major growth area with fee income in 1996 again exceeding expectations by a significant margin.

Principal areas of concern

In terms of programme content, the main areas of proposed growth are the subprogrammes on technology and methodology, in the S amp T programme.

The growth has been concentrated in the area of police training, and has been primarily directed towards eastern Europe and CIS.

Potential foreign investors in manufacturing often require the pre existence of efficient local firms to act as suppliers.

Progress in the four major areas of A world fit for children

46. UPU indicated a number of steps taken in three main areas in order to improve efficiency in a long term context of limited budgetary growth.

Since 2001, forestry has become one of the Central African Republic's main growth areas, accounting for 4.2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2002, as against 3.2 per cent in 1997.

One of the main focus areas of the Task Force would be strengthening capacity and coordination for risk reduction.

Finally, Uganda wishes to fully endorse the Secretary General's request for additional 2,580 personnel for MONUC and his call to the international community to increase its assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in all areas, especially security reform.

Firms which have diversified vertically tend to be the largest in terms of their turnover, but are among the less profitable and achieve the lowest rates of growth. The best growth performance is achieved by firms diversifying into related areas, while diversification into unrelated areas yields the highest profits but slow growth.

Most of the increase is driven by cost increases.

The proposal, therefore, reflects a real growth (volume increases) of 1.1 per cent in strategic areas described in the next section, and cost increases of 9.7 per cent in the gross budget.

Services are new growth areas for developing countries.

Other major areas are fairly evenly balanced, with a slight edge to the building of expanded and enhanced common services.

We look principally to three areas.

Principal areas of concern and recommendations

Women's participation had increased in all spheres of public decision making.

Key areas requiring further attention

Likewise, the European Council has agreed on a new Compact for growth and jobs that identifies a specific European dimension of growth policies, mainly integration of energy, transport, communications, and services, together with higher infrastructure investment.

Given the growing needs in the area of peacekeeping, regional organizations have an essential role to play in both taking over from and supporting United Nations activities.

Coverage of major goal areas.

Mongolia fully supports the equal emphasis placed by the Secretary General on three main areas development, security and human rights.

With the ongoing shift in income sources from institutions to individuals, major gifts represent an important growth area to fund raising income.

China isn t the only success story. Other big winners in terms of real per capita GDP between 2000 and 2004 are Lithuania (up 48 ), Romania (up 41 ), Estonia (up 40 ), Chile (up 33 ), Hungary (up 32 ), Greece (up 31 ), New Zealand (up 28 ), Australia (up 25 ), Korea (up 23 ), Ireland (up 23 ), South Africa (up 23 ), and Nigeria (up 22 ).

Against this background, South Korea s new growth strategy should aim to achieve both a demand side rebalancing and supply side productivity increases.

I wish to note in particular the contribution of the Secretary General in that sphere.

However, economic growth in the region has become more autonomous in the last few years with rapid increases in intraregional trade.

Security along with economic growth, sustainable development and good governance will provide the four central pillars and priority areas for the region.

The Secretary General s reform programme includes delineation of pertinent new structures and relationships in the Organization s main substantive areas of work.

Furthermore, developed countries currently enjoy a large and rapidly growing knowledge advantage in this area.

To ask the Secretary General to prepare position descriptions and determine areas of competence and responsibilities in accordance with the modified organizational structure.

Total gross exports from the region increased by 24 per cent from 2003, largely as a result of the increase in oil export values, but exports from more diversified economies, notably Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, also rose significantly.

His Government believed that international cooperation in outer space should be based on mutual benefit, complementarity and common development and that cooperation should take widely varying forms.

The following are the main areas of research selected for the current decade

Further development of the regulatory framework remains important for the growth and efficient functioning of retail trade in the area of e commerce.

The main areas of increase decrease are discussed in the summary of proposals in paragraphs 42 45 and reflected in table 3 of the budget document.

Other sectors, such as services and tourism, have been growing and have been recognized as key areas for opportunity and economic growth.

Persistent and emerging issues