Social stability, needed for productive growth, is nurtured by conditions in which people can readily express their will.

This should ultimately lead to the rise of independent and stable States and entities.

While production in Iraq is estimated to have increased significantly, a lack of security renders upstream operations unstable.

25. The production and use of energy can affect human health, ecological stability, and economic development.

Our stable macro economic situation is the outcome of a mix of prudent monetary and fiscal policies.

Its gross domestic product was holding steady, its industrial output had increased and its trade balance was favourable.

The establishment of such a zone in the Middle East would have a direct bearing on peace and stability in that region and was long overdue.

The deterioration of the situation along Burundi's borders would certainly have a negative impact on stability in the country.

Actions that could have a negative impact on Lebanese unity and stability must be avoided.

It is morally reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

That has clear consequences for efforts to rebuild and stabilize that important region.

The economic performance of Sierra Leone remained stable and GDP increased to 7.4 per cent in 2004.

Both developments have serious and adverse destabilizing consequences.

The transport sector has grown much faster than gross domestic product, while the population has remained stable.

There is also a need to promote favourable conditions for achieving international stability in private capital flows and to prevent the destabilization arising from swift movements of private capital flows.

The cultivation, production and trafficking of narcotic drugs is another impediment to the consolidation of peace, stability and development in Afghanistan.

This would have a negative impact on the balance of payments, macroeconomic stability and the investment needed for growth.

Price stability was a basic element in enabling producing countries to formulate long term national development policies.

33. Among the perennial problems facing producers of commodities is the excessive instability of the prices of many commodities.

The resulting uncertainty would run counter to the objective of stability and predictability in international relations.

The mission was of the view that those projects were essential for the security and stabilization environment, bolstered the image of MINUSTAH in the eyes of the local population, and delivered tangible results.

The support of donor countries has been steadily increasing, reflecting growing confidence in effective programme delivery.

A stable and viable Afghanistan will not be possible until the vexed issue of opium production is addressed and this source of chronic instability, corruption and misery is removed from the fabric of Afghan life.

For society, the lives destroyed and the opportunities lost can have devastating effects on its long term stability and development.

The further stabilization of the situation in Liberia has had a positive impact on the overall situation in the subregion.

Even the difference of a single decade in the transition to stabilization levels of fertility can have a considerable positive impact on quality of life.

Bitter experience has shown us that instability in one State can have a powerful contagion effect far beyond its borders.

In that context, it should be recalled that countering the production and proliferation of drugs remains one of the key elements in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan.

Experts called for the creation of a global steel agreement or a global steel accord to steady and guide the steel industry.

While global coca cultivation and cocaine manufacture had declined steadily since 1999, global illicit opium production and amphetamine type stimulants were on the increase.

The developments in Côte d'Ivoire and their possible impact on efforts to stabilize Liberia are also a source of concern.

Unfortunately, the expectations for peace, stability and collaboration that the creation of the United Nations awakened throughout the world are still a long way from being a reality.

In an interdependent world, poverty exacerbates other evils and results in instability, conflicts that know no borders and threats to peace and security at the regional and global levels.

Or will the biosphere stabilize?

Barriers to property ownership.

No offense, but your life seems very precarious.

We need to know the causes of crises, as well as their consequences, because often neighbouring countries and subregional stability are affected.

The escalating production and acquisition of armaments by some States have created insecurity and instability in several regions of the world.

In Algeria, real depreciations appear to have been accompanied by constant real wages and falling labour productivity.

Following a sharp increase in production in the past two years, the situation was beginning to stabilize.

The production of the Ariane 4 engines continued at a steady rate.

The successful national elections and further consolidation of peace in that country are expected to have a salutary effect on stability in Sierra Leone.

It is thus hoped that the women will stabilize their incomes, improve their circumstances and take up economic activities, and that they will have access to basic social services.

Several participants suggested that commodity price instability is not in the interest of either producers or consumers and can lead to inefficiencies in factor allocation.