Increasing pressure on agricultural land due to a growing world population has led to encroachment on forest reserves.

Of late, the world has seen a growing number of significant mergers and acquisitions in telecommunications.

This last proposal is especially relevant given the growing trend towards the spread of conflict in our world.

In addition, economic growth and progress in a growing interdependent world are influenced by the process of globalization.

The world's population is becoming increasingly urban and three quarters of the urban population growth is occurring in developing countries.

Ms. RILEY (World Health Organization) said that the use of illicit substances in the world was currently on the increase, while the age at which young people were initiated into drug use was falling.

Austria continues to support the text proposed by the ILC, particularly considering the increasing tendency worldwide towards privatization and the increasing commercial autonomy of State owned enterprises.

The volume of surgery had spread around the world, but the safety of surgery had not.

A growing concern

A Post Growth World?

Taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world,

Developing countries' exports grew faster than total world exports, which expanded by 20 per cent.

51. The abuse of and trafficking in amphetamine type stimulants and other synthetic drugs are increasing worldwide.

The total amount of remittances flows around the world has been increasing steadily over the past decades.

79. This growing contradiction between growth and distribution is having disastrous consequences in many countries and regions of the world.

A vital threat seen daily throughout the world is the growing threat of international terrorism, which respects no borders and violates the most fundamental human rights.

Nonetheless, Tunisia was aware that individual efforts were not sufficiently effective against such crime, which was spreading on an international scale and whose networks knew no borders.

In 2003, the economies of least developed countries grew at the annual rate of 5 per cent, benefiting from the world economic recovery.

World population has rapidly increased.

Overall global wealth has grown but is less and less evenly distributed within countries, within regions and in the world as a whole.

Indeed, in the future, as tariffs become increasingly liberalized, we can expect even more attention to be given to other methods for increasing world trade such as trade facilitation.

60. One reason the original members of CGAP decided to locate the secretariat within the World Bank was to strengthen the Bank s growing microfinance lending portfolio.

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.

Income has gone up for a majority of the world's population, despite the population going up by about two billion people over this period.

China and India were increasingly setting the direction of the world economy, and their rapid growth had had spin off effects on many other developing countries.

Life expectancy has gone up by about 25 years.

Because of the greater presence of Asian economies in the world, that would also mean a slowdown in world growth.

In 1996, the Czech Republic ranked fourth in the world in the rate of growth of Internet connections (145 per cent, as compared with the world average of 70 per cent).

Noting also that the Territory continues to emerge as one of the world's leading offshore financial centres, with unprecedented growth in its financial and tourism services sectors,

Production in China rose by 21 Mt., while the increase in the rest of the world was 2.5 Mt23.

Noting the increasing volume of dangerous goods being introduced into worldwide commerce, and the rapid expansion of technology and innovation,

Noting the increasing volume of dangerous goods being introduced into worldwide commerce and the rapid expansion of technology and innovation,

28. World trade in primary commodities has grown more slowly, and makes up a smaller share of total world trade than manufactured products.

Its Programme of Action stressed that a healthy environment was necessary to meet the basic needs of a growing world population.

Given the growing interdependence among all the countries and peoples of the world, no country, however powerful, can isolate itself from other countries.

And the world population will stop growing.

But why do they grow if the number of children doesn't grow?

The current trend is quite evident companies world wide are facing a growing number of non tariff barriers to exports.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world.

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

Fourthly, the promotion of human dignity is a key purpose of the United Nations. In today's world, its importance is increasing.

A year ago, when James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, addressed the Security Council, he reminded us that the first question of conflict prevention is to have a growing economy in which people share.

Developing countries constituted the fastest growing sector of the world economy in 2003 2004, continuing a two decade trend that has raised their share of world trade from 20 to 30 per cent of the world total.

The ever increasing trend towards economic globalization had forced all States into partnership in order to promote economic cooperation and development.

The policies they follow in their domestic affairs will, in the increasingly globalized capital markets, be of decisive importance for the rest of the world as they have a significant influence on world economic growth and, consequently, over the international economic environment.