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(a) Exchange rate the weakening of the United States dollar has resulted in a net adjustment of 4.3 million in local staff costs

23. With few exceptions, prices of base metals experienced continued weakness during recent months.

That was partly offset by a weakening of local currencies compared with the United States dollar.

Moreover, the 1997 pledging conference confirmed the continuing softness in actual and prospective core funding for 1998.

(b) A currency adjustment of 4.7 million an increase as a result of the continued weakening of the United States dollar.

The deleveraging of governments, financial institutions, and households is one major cause of the sluggish economic recovery. But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.

22. The decline in timber prices has also been among the most pronounced, and reflected in the main the protracted weakness of demand in Japan (see table 1).

Concern was also expressed about the recent weakness of the yen which posed a crisis within the crisis.

The overall cost increase is mostly the result of the weakening of the United States dollar, inflation and post related cost adjustments.

Thailand had long had exploding current account deficits and weak fundamental macroeconomic indicators.

The Bank said the overshoot relative to its 2 target was entirely down to the weak pound.

The continuing weakness of the dollar against the euro has had a sizeable impact on the revised expenditure estimate for the current biennium.

China certainly experienced a turbulent summer, owing to three factors economic weakness, financial panic, and the policy response to these problems. While none on its own would have threatened the world economy, the danger stemmed from a self reinforcing interaction among them weak economic data leads to financial turmoil, which induces policy blunders that in turn fuel more financial panic, economic weakness, and policy mistakes.

While continued weakening of the United States dollar is mainly responsible for the growth, almost one third of the increase can be attributed to strengthened donor support.

But a new factor soon disturbed this relative stability, pushing oil prices even lower Evidence that the global economy was weakening, and that much of the weakening was occurring in relatively energy intensive countries such as China and Brazil, as well as Russia (itself an energy producer).

This may be effective, but it is a dangerous policy choice when the domestic financial sector is weak and the level of debt in the economy is high.

The floor ceiling mechanism would continue to be applied in order to protect their emoluments from the weakening strengthening of the exchange rate.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist. As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

At its session in May 2005, the Board of Trustees amended the UNITAR budget for the biennium 2004 2005 to cover additional costs and to address the weakness of the United States dollar.

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Even in a situation with relatively slow demand growth and weak prices, new capacity may still be added successfully if production costs are low enough.

The Bank of England has warned economic growth will remain sluggish as it kept interest rates on hold amid a tightening squeeze on family incomes.

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The budget's net cost increases of 85.7 million are predominantly due to inflationary factors, compounded by the weakened United States dollar, primarily at the country level.

In 1997, the premium did decline relative to the value of the property covered, but this was attributed to the softness of the foreign property market as a whole.

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Although QE may be justified by weak economic and growth fundamentals, keeping rates too low for too long can eventually feed such bubbles. That is what happened in 2000 2006, when the US Federal Reserve aggressively cut the federal funds rate to 1 during the 2001 recession and subsequent weak recovery and then kept rates down, thus fueling credit housing subprime bubbles.

19. For industrial materials, prospects depend critically on demand conditions in the Asian crisis countries, and the prices of natural rubber, in particular, have weakened markedly in recent months.

Some of the declines, especially those of the prices of copper, nickel, zinc and lead, were particularly large (see table 1) as the depressed demand for those commodities has been compounded by problems of oversupply.

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The Bank of England is expected to announce later that interest rates will remain unchanged after lacklustre economic growth and easing inflation dampened speculation over a hike.

Economic growth is expected to moderate in 2005 in all three countries if the external environment weakens and uncertainty remains about the sustainability of domestic demand.

The sluggish growth in domestic demand and restrictive government regulations encouraged many Indian enterprises to seek OFDI as an alternative route for growth (Lall, 1983).

For the global economy, the malaise reflected in anemic trade growth calls for coordinated fiscal stimulus by the world s major economies. Otherwise, the risk of another global recession will continue to rise.

Housing prices are rising, and, while residential investment is increasing, it remains depressed as a share of GDP. Households have cut their debt and rebuilt their balance sheets, but the large loss in household wealth, weak growth in wages and income, the concentration of most income gains at the top, and a decline in labor s share of national income to record lows continue to constrain consumption.

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They've had a long, weary walk today.