Persistent and emerging issues

This increase is due to increased expenditures on both country and regional projects.

Growth in number of member cities, 1992 1995

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

Regional arrangements can also contribute to growth of the world economy.

Absolute growth will be highest in Asia, where cities will add another 330 million people during this period.

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

As a result, the proportion of people living on under 1 a day and the overall poverty in those subregions have been on the decline.

Some national experts hold the opinion that treatment demand is increasing in the region.

The recent currency turbulence in East Asia, the region with the best long term growth prospects in the world, is a sobering reminder that globalization can cause instability even where it has generated the greatest growth.

At the regional level, regional and subregional institutions as well as regional initiatives would benefit from increased coordination.

Impressive economic performance enabled the region to invest in human and infrastructure development.

Regional stabilization is about sustainable economic growth and development.

Build South South trade in goods and services at the bilateral, regional and interregional levels in sectors with high growth potential.

The overall economic performance of countries from the West African Monetary Union zone grew by only 2.8 per cent in 2004 against a projected growth rate of 4.1 per cent.

The acceleration in GDP growth was most marked in East and North East Asia, South East Asia and the developed countries of the region, but other subregions maintained growth rates close to the levels of a year earlier.

Value added of regional approaches

Largest Area

The year 1995 had been marked by general growth in all regions, and the trend should be confirmed in 1996.

Report of the Secretary General on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights (A 53 324)

The wave of regionalism experienced by the region during the 1990s, sparked intraregional trade for some time, stimulating in this way gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

An examination of the growth rates by district revealed that the highest increase occurred in the Nablus area (11.2 per cent).

Continued progress in these areas will increase the region's resilience and growth potential.

In some regions, Asia Pacific in particular, and also in the region of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), considerations are under way for the establishment of regional bond markets in an effort to harness more effectively the regionally available resources in order to answer the rising demands for investment capital in their countries.

While intraregional trade had grown in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, intra African trade had declined at a rate of 9 per cent during the first half of the 1990s.

Growth and sustainable development evolving global, regional and national structures and mechanisms

Convinced that complete economic growth and prosperity in the region are impossible without comprehensive activity for reconstruction, construction and connection of the regional infrastructure

(b) Senior business development officers, responsible for client management and business development in regions where major operations exist and portfolio growth is feasible and

91. It was noted that the words the region s dynamic growth in the last sentence of paragraph 15.10, were no longer accurate in view of the current economic crisis in the region.

Increases are expected in every region, except sub Saharan Africa, which is expected to increase expenditures in 2004, but decrease funding levels slightly in 2005.

65. The recommendations made to the Council by the regional commissions are contained in an addendum to the report of the Secretary General on regional cooperation in the economic, social and related fields (E 1998 65 Add.2).

Rapid population growth, unsustainable water use and increasing pollution levels further contribute to water scarcity problems in the region.

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

Additional services for six regional headquarters.

This initiative will contribute to increased collaboration among SMEs at the subregional, regional and interregional levels.

Selected economies of the ESCAP region rates of economic growth and inflation, 2003 2006

In addition, the advantages of rapid economic growth of the region have not filtered down to all levels of society.

More than half of this increase (or 34 million arrivals) was to destinations in the ESCAP region.

(a) Growth and sustainable development evolving global, regional and national structures and mechanisms.

The Commission at its sixty first session undertook a mid term review of its revised conference structure, in accordance with Commission resolution 58 1 of 22 May 2002.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries witnessed record growth rates offering them an opportunity to be the engine of economic growth that fosters region wide development.

The ESCAP region is a major contributor to world trade growth, with both exports and imports growing faster than world exports and imports and with China becoming the world's third largest trading nation.

Because of regional instability and political tension, West Asia, on average, has lost 2 percentage points of growth per year since 1980.

It was noted that South South trade had been growing at a rapid pace, and that regional integration was assuming increasing importance.

(b) Regional ministerial forums