Lack of progress on the implementation of development commitments would, therefore, further accentuate existing misgivings.

She concluded by observing that poverty could accentuate women's vulnerability and therefore their propensity to commit criminal acts.

But the most serious thing is that the report, if approved, would further accentuate the imbalances that serve as its reference point and its starting point.

But the world order has changed. Emerging markets and developing countries now account for 50 of global GDP and 75 of global growth, and demographics will further accentuate the shift in the center of economic gravity.

It is time for a civilizing mission that will emerge from society itself and bring people together. This mission must also reflect a new politics that does not accentuate differences, but helps shape a new sense of who we are.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

The third front involves assorted petty particularisms parties representing the sectarian interests of specific castes, sub regions, or linguistic groups. The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.

For years, the pragmatic answer has been the dollar, and to some extent other national currencies, giving rise to complaints of an inordinate privilege for the US. But it is not in America s interest to accentuate and extend its payment deficits at the expense of an internationally competitive economy with strong industry and restrained consumption.

The best way to accentuate the region s growing anti American sentiment is to try to close the US Mexican border (which will be futile). Instead, the US should establish humane, secure, and legal mechanisms of temporary or permanent entry for people the American economy needs and wants, and it should work with, not against, governments in Latin America.

In Western Asia, the effects of regional integration based mainly on trade liberalization are at best limited and at worst harmful without adequate compensatory mechanisms, such a path to integration may accentuate economic disparity between member countries in a phenomenon known as polarization, whereby the more developed and stronger members of the free trade area or customs union can reap the benefits of liberalized trade at the expense of the weaker partners.