China is already a top carbon dioxide emitter. Environmental degradation in Asia not only harms its population s health, but will become an impediment to growth.

The 2005 World Summit Outcome stressed the need to find a timely, effective, comprehensive and durable solution to developing countries' debt problems, which were a major impediment to sustainable growth.

However, in countries that were short of human capital and lacked the capacity to replace the loss of their most qualified workers, such outflows were a major impediment to economic growth.

(c) It may be an impediment to electronic commerce.

This would include, at a minimum, reforms of labor rules, pension systems, and anti growth provisions of tax codes. It would also include an aggressive attempt to reduce the sovereign debt overhang that remains a major impediment to growth and continues to threaten some European banks.

Would that constitute an impediment to their signing the convention?

And remove the impediment from my speech,

That energy shortage in developing countries is a basic impediment to development.

The non extradition of nationals remains an important legal impediment to extradition.

The second is the elimination of child labour, which is a major impediment to education.

Even with the aggressive implementation of cleaner vehicle technologies, there remains a strong motivation to reduce demand for personal vehicle transport, because crippling traffic congestion is a serious impediment to economic growth, quality of life and personal safety in countless places around the world.

Senegalese Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye has cited high interest rates as a major impediment to GDP growth. Last November, at a conference marking the Central Bank of West African States 50th anniversary, Senegalese President Macky Sall pleaded for an interest rate reduction.

The cultivation of illicit drug crops remains a serious impediment to the sustainable development of some countries.

The Committee understands that there is no legal impediment to constructing a building on the North Lawn.

Today, as China looks to the medium term, the government must face the problems created by its pervasive role in the economy. A new World Bank report singles out lack of reform of state owned enterprises as the most important impediment to the country s economic growth.

Lack or inaccuracy of reporting is a key impediment to assessing the extent and nature of the problem.

In some areas, the lack of security is still an impediment to effective humanitarian assistance and project implementation.

It also represents a serious impediment to the conduct of effective investigations in Darfur by national judicial bodies.

Illiteracy is a definite impediment for citizens of Pakistan, including women, in realizing their rights.

Therefore, desertification ranks among the greatest environmental challenges today and is a major impediment to meeting basic human needs in drylands.

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

Secondly, an expansion involving six new permanent seats would constitute a formidable impediment to the effective functioning of the Security Council.

The procedure for indirect access should not be so burdensome and time consuming as to act as an impediment to access to bank information.

Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

The world should be thankful that there is at least one. Where she was born should not be an impediment to her prospects.

As is rightly pointed out by the Secretary General, poverty and associated problems remain a major impediment to the progress of youth worldwide.

Unilateral sanctions, imposed outside the United Nations, were a violation of the sovereignty of developing countries and an impediment to their sustainable development.

This impediment to communication will be removed by the end of 2005, when the staff will again be accommodated in a single building.

The lack of adequate capacity in many developing countries is a serious impediment to the implementation of the Convention and its related agreements.

If not resolved, this issue will create a major impediment to the proper planning and execution of audit assignments, particularly for field audits.

A Book sent down to thee so let there be no impediment in thy breast because of it to warn thereby, and as a reminder to believers

A Book sent down to thee so let there be no impediment in thy breast because of it to warn thereby, and as a reminder to believers

But the security situation in various parts of the country remains difficult and continues to act as an impediment to further progress in reconstruction and development.

10.9 The Committee sees no impediment to the admissibility of the author's claim under article 14, paragraph 5, and proceeds to the examination of the merits.

In recent years, Canada noted in its deliberations with many non ratifiers that regional security dynamics tend to be a strong impediment to ratification for some countries.

5.5 The Committee considers there to be no impediment to the admissibility of the author's remaining claim under article 14 (2), and proceeds to consider it on the merits.

Keynesians argue that Europe would grow if only policy were focused on generating aggregate demand they blame precipitous fiscal consolidation and insufficiently aggressive monetary easing for the loss of momentum. Their opponents, by contrast, see structural weaknesses and internal imbalances as the major impediment to growth for supply siders, it is the slow pace of economic and social reforms that is to blame.

And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

Am I not better than this contemptible (man), who can scarcely make things clear (because of the impediment of his speech)?

Am I not better than this contemptible (man), who can scarcely make things clear (because of the impediment of his speech)?

While developing economies share of the global economy has risen from roughly one third to one half over the last decade, developed economies continue to dominate the supply of long term funding. The mismatch between the time horizon of available funding and that of investors and entrepreneurs, particularly those in developing economies, is a source of vulnerability that acts as an impediment to growth.