A World of Convergence

There's a lot of serendipitous convergence here.

I think we can reach a good degree of convergence.

So my story really is as much about that convergence in the Americas as it's a convergence story in Eurasia.

And the forces of convergence exploded.

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NACE NAICS convergence project

A possible convergence of interests lies with expanded South South trade and investment.

Those points of convergence deserve thorough consideration and reflection.

Because what it does is allow a convergence like we've never had before.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence. Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

And I had a happy brush with convergence until, kind of, Warner basically has to liquidate the whole thing.

So this dream is really enabled by the convergence of two known technologies.

Moreover, the project provided indications of the extent of convergence achievable in participating countries.

I think they re two quite different modes divergence and convergence.

A project to study convergence between the European and North American industry classifications was initiated in 2000.

As a result, the new focus of the convergence work became a better concordance scenario, which addressed lower structure detail and concept issues.

In the first, the region risks a cycle of weak growth, retreat from market oriented policies, and increasing disillusionment. As a result, convergence with Western Europe could slow, with many countries lagging far behind a far different outcome from that envisioned during the boom of the mid 2000s, when convergence within a generation seemed almost like a birthright.

It has expanded detail on services considerably as part of a wider convergence process of the international and regional3 industry or activity classifications.

And here is where we really felt that there was a great convergence of the technological and the natural in the project.

Over the last few decades, there has been increasing convergence towards a set of non jurisdiction specific, widely recognized financial reporting standards.

First, the new architecture must facilitate the convergence of the security, humanitarian and development perspectives.

The process of convergence of evidence and the careful cross checking and review of testimony requires time.

In particular, Thailand fully supported the role of UNCTAD as a forum in which countries could enhance policy convergence on important global issues.

Improved convergence of approaches, programme strategies and interventions will lead to greater effectiveness and enhanced outcomes.

In the US, successful convergence in economic conditions across regions relies strongly on labor mobility. Internal migration is the main driver of income convergence, helped by a common language and all the other factors that foster mobility in America, such as comparatively easy access to housing and education.

There's a convergence. So, wherever the rain is falling, the air is drawn towards it to replace the air that's rising.

What results UNDP has achieved have been based on convergence among the following elements

Kozul Wright R and Rowthorn R (2002). Globalization and the myth of economic convergence. Economie appliqué, vol. LV

His Majesty's Government is committed to resolving the problems confronting Nepal with patriotism as the point of convergence.

The investments already made are considerable and should be taken into consideration, maximizing their return on investment, when planning the time frame of a future convergence.

Over the past 20 years, convergence had again come to be seen as the inevitable result of free trade.

The concentration on six provinces was meant to model initiatives for decentralization and inter sectoral convergence.

Advocates envisaged an orderly process in which economic convergence accompanied and facilitated global economic growth. They foresaw a collaborative process guided by enlightened policymaking.

It may be that the social singularity ahead is the one that we fear the most a convergence of catastrophes, of environmental degradation, of weapons of mass destruction, of pandemics, of poverty.

It is through the convergence of multiple avenues of enquiry that patterns emerge and begin to focus on the most critical elements.

The strong focus of the goals of the Millennium Declaration on children has created a positive synergy with the goals of A world fit for children and convergence of national planning processes around a common set of goals.

That's what we're looking forward to. That is where we're going this union, this convergence of the atomic and the digital.

Convergence in social service provision also required strengthening the linkages and coordination of CBSS with other national programmes supported by UNICEF.

And I think it's kind of a nice little cosmological convergence here that the Mola mola its common name is sunfish that its favorite food is the moon jelly.

The idea of convergence had fallen out of favour along with the first generation of neo classical growth models that predicted it for a longer discussion see Kozul Wright and Rowthorn, 2002.

The Third and Fourth Committees should collaborate closely to promote ideas reflecting the convergence of their mandates on the issue of self determination.

East Asian style rapid growth has typically required a heavy dose of structural transformation for a number of decades, with steady progress on education and institutions providing the longer term underpinnings of convergence with advanced economies.

Convergence on these issues still requires a much deeper form of integration that penetrates into the sphere of the domestic policy arena and brings about a redistribution of benefits and costs across domestic political interest groups.

The three hours of discussions in an informal, interactive mode lead me to conclude that there are more areas of convergence than of divergence.