Firms and workers would need to adjust as reform forces some industries to downsize or close and allows others to expand. In addition, there are social costs to consider.

In Southern Darfur, 800 weapons were collected by the Government of the Sudan over the period of review as part of its effort to downsize the Popular Defence Forces.

Unfortunately, six years after the establishment of UNMIK, those prerequisites had not been met and he was astonished by the proposal to downsize the Mission in terms of both its composition and budget appropriation.

President Nkurunziza acknowledged that the Government faced difficulties in reconciling its commitment to downsize the public administration with the constitutional requirements for the inclusion of Burundi's 36 political parties at all levels of Government.

Their debts and obligations are similarly fixed. They could have bought a smaller house had they known that their hours would be reduced, but now it is difficult to downsize the one that they did buy.

(a) The increase in the volume of cases that started in 2002 has been continuous and is expected to last through the 2006 2007 biennium given that several missions are expected to either close or downsize

Today, as the Fed documents clearly demonstrate, the IMF has become marginalized not least because of its ineffective policy process. Indeed, at the outset of the crisis, the IMF, assuming that demand for its resources would remain low permanently, had already begun to downsize.

Freer trade would force some industries to downsize or close, although more industries would expand, and for some people and communities, the transition would be difficult. Yet the overall benefits of a successful Doha Round would likely be hundreds of times greater than these costs.

For example, The Economist s recent portrait of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shows that Italy continues to be stymied by labor rules that make businesses reluctant to expand beyond 15 employees (after which it becomes hard for a firm to downsize). To work smoothly, expansive macroeconomic policies require compatible microeconomic rules.

Most importantly, they inherited from the Soviet era bloated and inefficient public sectors, which they are finding hard to downsize and professionalize. The private sector has been entirely rebuilt and is vibrant, but it cannot remain competitive if fiscal demands are not reduced a familiar problem in Europe as a whole.

Many people have long argued that democratization in the Middle East will not get far until Egypt becomes fully engaged in the process. Egypt could not truly set out on a path of democratization without first amending its constitution to downsize the Pharaonic powers of its president and set limits on his term in office.