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

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.

Of the other substances, the quot ecstasy quot group constitutes the most dynamic quot growth area quot in many countries, especially in Europe.

This is where you'll find the fastest growing young populations of the world.

The strongest rates of increase were recorded in the first half of the 1970s.

The highest growth was in respect of the organisation's trust funds.

Studies of the more rapidly growing Asian economies suggested that the growth in exports in labour intensive sectors and economic growth had been most rapid in those countries that had the widest gender wage gaps.

48. The sharpest and most consistent increase has been in the percentage of countries reporting seizures of heroin and cocaine.

Statistics indicate a steady growth in production, with the fastest rates of increase in the private sector.

275. This sector has experienced rapid and extensive growth.

In the last few years, China s scientific publications have grown rapidly, particularly in the computer science and engineering fields.

The town of Gulu, for instance, is one of the fastest growing towns in the country.

For eight Parties waste was the fastest growing (or least declining) source of CH4 emissions, while fugitive fuel emissions grew the fastest for six Parties and emissions from agriculture the fastest for three Parties (table 2).

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

118. Cambodia has one of the youngest and fastest growing populations in Asia.

Biotech is probably the most powerful and the fastest growing technology sector.

But it's increasing enormously.

Japan s ODA spending, which had been one of the fastest expanding items in the budget, thus faces a future of limited growth.

Business growth in this market, and a focus on option one product lines, reflect

The fastest growth rates are reported for MDMA.

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.

Asia has the world's fastest growing economies.

In the world today, it's the countries that have the highest mortality rates that have the fastest population growth.

Consequently, South Africa has recorded the sharpest and most consistent increase in the spread of cocaine and heroin trafficking in Africa in recent years.

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.

Private non guaranteed debt represented the fastest growing segment of external debt, rising by 20 per cent or 21 billion.

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.

A selective approach that targets the binding constraints those areas where the growth returns are the greatest would maximize early benefits. It would also ensure that the Greek authorities spend valuable political and human capital on the battles that really matter.

Services are new growth areas for developing countries.

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

Recent years have seen women account for an increasing percentage of health care managers.

Forecasts to the year 2020 predict growth in tourism in all regions of the world, with the strongest relative growth occurring in parts of the developing world.

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

In the OECD, they have been the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment since 1980.

In spite of the declining annual average population growth rates, Zambia is placed as having one of the world's highest growth rates.

How Fast Will China Grow?

The fastest growing, or least declining, source of CH4 emissions for about half of the Parties was waste, while the fastest growing source of N2O emissions for the majority of Parties was fuel combustion, mostly for transport purposes, as a consequence of growth in the sector as well as the introduction of catalytic converters.

2. Reaffirm that the Programme of Action constitutes a fundamental framework for a strong global partnership whose goal is to accelerate sustained economic growth, sustainable development and poverty eradication in the least developed countries

Research and manufacturing of applied satellites is currently one of the fastest developing high technology fields in China.

The year 2004 produced the fastest global economic growth in almost three decades and the economic performance of the economies in the ESCAP region was also impressive, with an estimated growth rate of 7.2 per cent, the highest since 2000, accompanied by generally low rates of inflation (see table).

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.

African export growth has been moderate.

6. Reaffirms that the Programme of Action constitutes a fundamental framework for a strong global partnership, whose goal is to accelerate sustained economic growth, sustainable development and poverty eradication in the least developed countries

Reaffirming that the Programme of Action constitutes a fundamental framework for a strong global partnership, whose goal is to accelerate sustained economic growth, sustainable development and poverty eradication in the least developed countries,

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