A World of Convergence

Will Technology Kill Convergence?

There is, however, increasing convergence in the pattern of delegation of authority among the funds and programmes.

27. Gender convergences and divergences are frequently noted from midlife onwards.

And inflation has come down.

This trend is the same among adult women (22 ).

A similar trend is discernible for AIJ.

32. The trends with regard to abuse of hallucinogens are varied.

This general trend is an aggregation of trends for individual substances within the group and for different parts of the world.

Those points of convergence deserve thorough consideration and reflection.

The same tendency can also be noted among mothers.

The latter agreement and Decision make no provision for substantive convergence.

National trends may, however, appear different from the regional situation because of differences in patterns of abuse.

A growing trend is that United Nations interventions have to be made simultaneously at various levels.

Again, we're seeing that trend across Europe, across North America.

11. Trends in investment rates are similar to those in domestic savings (see fig.

But, also, there's going to be tremendous movement from the open to the closed.

123. Rwandan prisons and detention centres are all more or less equally overcrowded.

The trend in the abuse of illicit drugs presents a diverse picture depending on the substance and the region.

The trend in the abuse of illicit drugs presents a diverse picture depending on the substance and the region.

Over the past 20 years, convergence had again come to be seen as the inevitable result of free trade.

This conforms to the trend reported by Caribbean countries for 1994 1995 and confirms the clear upward trend in heroin trafficking in that area.

(c) Reporting trends in the abuse of a drug type, such as ATS, may be affected by differing trends in the abuse of different substances (Ecstasy abuse may be increasing while amphetamine abuse is decreasing).

This has been a revolutionary change, but will this 20 year old trend continue? Will convergence remain rapid, or will it be a passing phase in world economic history?

Welcoming also the increasingly close relations between the United Nations and the Council of Europe,

In addition, tastes and preferences are converging and expanding across cultures.

It has also improved the analysis on drug abuse trends through a new analytical tool, called the Weighted Analysis on Drug Abuse Trends, for weighted estimations of regional trends taking into consideration different population sizes.

Single parents, unmarried couples, divorces1 and separations continue to become more commonplace as attitudes to marriage, cohabitation, and the role and status of women increasingly conform to international trends.

Furthermore, the trend was the same regarding the regionalization of trade among developing countries.

The rest of emerging Asia will also converge reasonably quickly, though not as quickly as China. Latin America, however, will likely converge only very slowly in the absence of major structural reforms that increase its ability to invest and improve the quality of education.

Cocaine production has followed the same trend as coca leaf cultivation, pointing to a slight increase.

The same trends are evident in our peacemaking operations and efforts.

Although the report notes that equal remuneration is mandated by law, it provides no information on existing trends of pay parity between men and women.

Trends

This is in marked contrast with the increasingly sophisticated technical capacity of clandestine entrepreneurs

It is obvious that the future of the world is intertwined with its current state and with the prevailing trends, which exhibit signs of hope and despair.

Although those proposals have different approaches, there are also important points of convergence that we believe should serve as a basis for seeking consensus solutions that will correspond to the best interests of all Member States.

50. A universal trend on the reporting of psychotropic substances is difficult to identify, as the different groups of substances showed different developments.

Efforts may also be made to reverse the trend of linking non reciprocal trade preferences to conditions and circumstances which are unrelated to trade.

Trends

At this time, hard work between China and ASEAN has led to continued improvement in the situation in the South China Sea.

We welcome the trend towards further strengthening the cooperation between the Security Council and regional organizations.

Sometimes the experience of one or two countries in each region may differ from the overall regional trend.

The radio broadcasting of programmes in various foreign languages is also welcomed as a positive trend.

Several Parties provided up to five scenarios, some of them subdivided into different trends.