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.

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.

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

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

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

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 ).

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

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

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

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

In South East Asia strong economic growth along with a relatively large and rapidly expanding population base has attracted a great deal of interest from Western investors in all areas of the agricultural and food chain, especially in processing and distribution.

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

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

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

Encouraged by an increase in interest, the Brazilian Army instituted the participation of women in various areas of its staff.

Traditional fields of study are going to continue to grow and in so doing, inevitably they will meet and create new disciplines.

Despite the general trend towards expansion, the programme budget had grown modestly, with increased sums for priority areas being covered by a reallocation of resources within the approved budget outline.

Persistent and emerging issues

The Committee recommends that on the mainland, the State party ensure that its budgetary allocations to key areas for children, in particular health and education, keep pace with increases in government revenue.

Staff recruited or assigned to that field should have competence in development issues, particularly in the social and economic fields.

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).

Regulation and regulatory issues emerge as the next frontier or opportunity for ensuring sustained growth in the retailing sector.

One P 4 to support expanded work in the field of rule of law

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See Council decisions 2005 214 to 2005 219.

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.

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.

While that shows substantial policy inadequacies in the social areas, it is also partly a reflection of a problem with the quality of economic growth.

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

Therefore, we believe that increased investments in the area of capacity building and infrastructure development will yield long term benefits.

Most of the equity in the sector is local, and strong growth in this area points to the possibility of exporting to the region.

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

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There has been considerable growth in bilateral activity in this area over the last five years.

First, in the area of peace and security, African institutions are steadily growing stronger, and France is actively contributing to this.

Algerian women in the labour force were strongly represented in the areas of teaching, education, specialized health care, pharmacy and the legal system.

This slowing down is of course due to the policies carried out in the areas of health, education, advancement of the status of women, etc.

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

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