The increase appears to be stronger between 2003 and 2004 than between 2004 and 2005.

Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.

Higher growth of the minimum wage than of the average wage.

This began in the 2002 2003 fiscal year, with significant enhancements in 2003 2004.

275. This sector has experienced rapid and extensive growth.

The annual rate of population growth was 3.1 per cent between the 1960 and 1970 censuses, dropping to 2.6 per cent between 1980 and 1990.

Singapore's OFDI to China and Indonesia grew significantly in 1993 2003.

The value of electronic trade can be expected to increase significantly over the years to come.

(c) There is no significant increase in the number of cases and no major shortfalls in funding the administration of justice services.

In Canada, Internet sales continued to increase substantially reaching 22.9 million in 2004.

Net total public debt increased to 10.5 billion in 1996, up by 42 per cent an increase in the same proportion as one year earlier.

The results of the survey had shown that security spending had increased significantly during the reporting period.

The population growth rate has been drastically reduced, falling to 1.47 per cent in 2005 from 3 per cent in the 1970s.

Private capital flows have experienced a substantial growth for several reasons.

The negative growth rate is attributed to the constant number of livestock in 2001 as compared to 2000 when the increase was substantive.

GDP growth in South East Asia in 2004 exceeded expectations and improved on 2003 growth by the wide margin of 1.5 percentage points.

It was estimated that Malawi would have to grow by at least 6 per cent a year in order to reduce poverty significantly.

For this reason statistical data for certain years are deceptive they are, for example, the result of considerable price growth in a given year not yet followed by wage growth or, on the contrary, high wage growth, in reaction to the restrained rate of increase in wages in previous years.

In the year 2000, the figure went up to 705, an increase of about 17 .

This is also predicted to grow strongly.

This required a substantial increase in the budget, which was currently extremely low.

This was the largest annual gain in four years.

These figures confirm the pace of continuous growth that has characterized most of the 1990s.

As President McDonald indicated, the activities of the International Tribunal have increased dramatically in recent months.

However, realizing those advantages requires that economic growth be possible in the countries involved and that it be accompanied by substantial job growth.

Trade in ICT products grew tremendously over the last decade and was worth over 900 billion in 2000.

In the last decade, we have seen an enormous growth in the community and independent media sector.

This increase is too great to be accounted for solely by improved Ghanaian crop husbandry.

A massive increase in inputs is needed to jump start this process.

Other parts of Asia have also experienced growth, with 20 Mt. of expansion, while South American capacity has risen by 8 Mt. and Middle East capacity by over 10 Mt., which is a notable increase for the region.

The region's growth indicators were positive the increase in direct foreign investment in 2003 had placed ASEAN among the regions of highest growth in that respect, and the increase was expected to be even bigger in 2004.

Because population is expected to increase substantially, especially in developing countries, the Programme of Action recognizes the usefulness of achieving a lower population growth as early as possible.

195. Personal disposable income expanded substantially in 1995 (no figures are yet available) due to a large increase in employment.

Tourism, which has been the engine of our national economic growth for the past three decades, has suffered a sharp decline.

That policy had led to a significant increase in attendance of girls of 21.9 per cent.

Other possible constraints on growth included a lull or even reversal of the trend in appreciating housing prices in many large economies and a significant rise in long term interest rates and risk adverse financial markets.

The Secretary General also called upon the Bretton Woods institutions to significantly ease and quicken access to facilities for heavily indebted poor countries and to provide sufficient resources to enable them to attain a substantial and sustained pace of economic growth and social development.

Therefore, unless it accelerated, economic growth would not be sufficient to bring about a significant alleviation of poverty in the region.

Now twelve years after independence and over the post independence decade, 1990 1999, real GDP increased by about 39 , from N 6 081 to N 8 453 million while real income per capita increased by about 4.8 , from N 4 520 to N 4 735.

When Chinese growth eventually becomes less dependent on investment, growth rates in steel consumption can be expected to fall sharply.

During 2000 and 2001 the tendency became general and even showed the most important increases in real terms of recent years.

Chad reported a large increase, reaching an annual illicit consumption level of 0.5 per cent in 1995.

The principal sources of growth in the economy have been agriculture and mining, complemented by the service industry and to a smaller extent manufacturing.

Take Wanda Cinema Line, the biggest theater chain in China, as an example. The box office turnout in the second quarter increased by only 12.8 , far lower than the amount of increase in the first quarter, which was 61.4 .

The increase in 2003 was due primarily to the significant increase in the supplementary programme budget.