Economic growth by itself is not sufficient, and high growth rates alone will not guarantee significant poverty reduction.

3. Population growth rates

For example, Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritius and a few others have experienced significant growth rates of trade and of income at varying periods.

Slow Growth for US Interest Rates

Resource growth at revised 1997 rates

The best growth rates they've had ever.

Our current growth rates are not sufficient to achieve the Development Goals because of, for example, the high rates of population growth.

In spite of the declining annual average population growth rates, Zambia is placed as having one of the world's highest growth rates.

First, poverty rates increased despite overall growth in the economy and in employment rates.

The fastest growth rates are reported for MDMA.

Indeed, during the 1980s, the economic growth rates had barely kept ahead of the population growth rates in the developing countries as a whole.

Even low growth rates produce large increases over time.

Since then, in recognition of the significant growth in its mainframe usage, the Fund had been paying a larger share of the costs involved, although still at reduced rates.

It should be noted that corruption affects income growth rates.

Table 7. Growth rates of minimum wage and price indices

While it was true that some African countries were showing signs of growth and others even had GDP growth rates higher than their demographic growth rates, that was not enough to reduce poverty in Africa.

1 Export sectors with average annual growth 6 Average annual growth rates 1990 1995 (ranking in brackets).

With a few exceptions, its growth rates have been below the growth performance of total goods exports.

significantly higher than the growth rates seen in 2015 and 2016.

The comparison provides details on growth rates for the forthcoming budget.

Significant growth is projected for other resources (emergency) in 2005.

The Committee is concerned that unemployment rates remain high, with significant regional disparities.

Notes 1 World output growth is measured as a weighted average of the output growth rates of 143 countries, based on 1993 exchange rates and prices (with some marginal adjustments).

At current growth rates, this number would reach 2 billion by 2025.

Growth in mobile telephony can have significant implications for economic development.

18.11 The region is suffering from low rates of economic growth and investment, resulting in high unemployment rates, particularly among youth.

When Chinese growth eventually becomes less dependent on investment, growth rates in steel consumption can be expected to fall sharply.

Droughts impact substantially on the sector's output and result in negative growth rates.

In the early 1990s there was already a decline in agricultural growth rates.

Annual growth rates of minimum wage and consumer price indices are as follows

The positive growth of 5,100 reflects the application of new standardized vacancy rates.

However, the malnutrition rates exhibit significant variations by place of residence and level of education.

In addition to the growth in other resources, significant growth in regular resources programme expenditures is projected for 2006 2009.

Other possible constraints on growth included a lull or even reversal of the trend in appreciating housing prices in many large economies and a significant rise in long term interest rates and risk adverse financial markets.

Selected economies of the ESCAP region rates of economic growth and inflation, 2003 2006

For instance, most countries in Africa today have positive and growing economic growth rates.

Concurrently, greater investment in infrastructure is also necessary to achieve higher rates of growth.

Even where growth rates had picked up, macroeconomic imbalances continued, deterring private sector investment.

For the first time since the beginning of the 1980s, GDP growth rates have exceeded population growth, albeit by a small margin.

A country's domestic growth prospects played a significant role in FDI site selection.

Yet what of Portugal, Ireland, and (especially) Spain, all of which have taken significant steps toward reform since the crisis? All are still experiencing double digit unemployment rates amid moribund growth, and, as the last International Monetary Fund Fiscal Monitor made abundantly clear, all still suffer from significant debt problems.

Compared to countries with very slow growth rates, countries with reasonably high growth rates should borrow. But when a country s growth rate continues to increase, its saving rate would increase faster than its investment rate, so it is more likely to run a current account surplus.

Those increasing inequalities had slowed economic growth and contributed to higher rates of violent crime.

Unfortunately, the debt burden constituted a considerable impediment in efforts to achieve high growth rates.

Thus, in 2000, even the regions that had previously shown high fertility rates experienced a significant decrease.