52. Over the past few years, small developing economies had been emphasizing the need to achieve high and sustainable growth levels.

Such remittances are estimated to have increased by 10 billion in 2004 to 126 billion.

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It has been widely acknowledged that growth without equity could eventually increase poverty.

In other duty stations, estimates for salary increases have been calculated on the basis of projected consumer price increases.

Gross domestic product growth, estimated at 3 per cent, remained positive for the second year running, though lower than in 2003.

But demand was ever growing and it was difficult to tamper with existing documents.

E commerce has been growing exponentially. It's now a trillion dollars.

And development just basically going berserk, for a double figure growth index, basically.

The number of housing units has increased over the reporting period.

Without trade, there can be no sustained equitable economic growth. Without economic growth, tax revenues will not grow. And without tax revenues, improved public services are not sustainable.

A policy aimed at reducing population growth had been given high priority and the relevant budgetary allocation had been doubled, with a view to achieving a growth rate of 1.9 per cent by the year 2002.

The Female Labour Force Participation while still quite low, is increasing. In 1981 it was 2.1 . It had moved up to 9.9 by 2001 2002.

Public services there are no longer adequate given the increased demand of a constantly growing population.

The manufacturing growth rate had risen to 9.2 per cent in the previous six months.

55. Despite the optimistic outlook, and although progress had been made since the negative growth of the 1980s, economic growth had remained modest 0.8 per cent from 1991 to 1996.

Similar to the Professional category, estimates for salary increases in other duty stations have been calculated on the basis of projected consumer price increases.

Over the past decade, the annual growth rate in main telephone lines has remained static at 8 per cent per year while it has increased to about 25 per cent in Asia.

Within the total, official (public sector) flows have languished all the growth has been accounted for by an increase in the private sector component.

The product keeps growing, as the formal economy in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has contracted and informal enterprises have grown.

China isn t the only success story. Other big winners in terms of real per capita GDP between 2000 and 2004 are Lithuania (up 48 ), Romania (up 41 ), Estonia (up 40 ), Chile (up 33 ), Hungary (up 32 ), Greece (up 31 ), New Zealand (up 28 ), Australia (up 25 ), Korea (up 23 ), Ireland (up 23 ), South Africa (up 23 ), and Nigeria (up 22 ).

The number of international migrants in the world continued to increase and stood at 175 million.

During that relatively short period, its economy had begun to register growth.

Lack of export growth thus has made the recession in Greece much longer and deeper than it would have been otherwise. If Greek exports had increased at the same rate as those of Portugal (or Spain), the recession would have ended by now.

But what's happened is our technology has removed the checks and balances on our population growth.

The standard numbers are that lifespans have been growing at between one and two years per decade.

Following a sharp increase in production in the past two years, the situation was beginning to stabilize.

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

19. In Eastern Europe the number of prostitutes is reported to be increasing at an alarming rate.

As a matter of fact, there has been a mushrooming of domestic and external quot growth triangles quot , quot growth corridors quot , and quot growth quadrangles quot inside and among economies in East and South East Asia especially.

Growth in employment will also lag somewhat behind growth in production, since the working hours of those already employed will increase before additional workers are hired on.

The budget proposals were already likely to represent absolute growth of over 5.4 per cent.

The connectivity in these parts of the world are really truly phenomenal and continue to increase.

The rate of increase approximated estimated population growth.

However, the proportion of women volunteers has clearly increased from 3.3 to 4.6 , an increase of 39 .

The number of the new working poor rose steadily, as the informal sector was increasingly deprived of economic growth opportunities.

(d) Lower population growth and depopulation in recent years

The growth rate has picked up and foreign reserves have crossed the US 12 billion mark.

It has been as high as 4.2 per cent but now appears to be slowing down to 3.5 per cent.

Other sectors, such as services and tourism, have been growing and have been recognized as key areas for opportunity and economic growth.

And, like a tumor, fat grows when blood vessels grow.

The rate of increase approximated estimated population growth.

The time for debate had been extended, while inequalities increased and international solidarity waned.

In other words, the Secretary General will try not to allow the debt already owed to Member States to rise.

The rate of increase approximately matched estimated population growth.