In addition, the sharp decline in official development assistance continued.

In the event, only a 5 per cent nominal increase was approved by COP 6, representing a sharp decline in real terms.

Before the crisis, women formed a large part of the workforce in rural areas which underwent a sharp decline during the war.

Failure to properly address those challenges could precipitate further conflict or result in a sharp decline in social and economic progress.

Tourism, which has been the engine of our national economic growth for the past three decades, has suffered a sharp decline.

The core dilemma stemmed from the fact that there was a sharp decline in resources even as the need for technical assistance increased.

There has been in many places a sharp decline in respect for Government, owing in part to the inexperience of the new leadership.

But there is a very curious pattern in the rest of the 20th century, because we see a sharp decline in this Islamic modernist line.

The number of hungry people had been on the decline and that decline was projected to continue however, a slowdown or even a reversal of that positive trend remained a real possibility with the current sharp contraction in ODA.

The sharp decline in ODA had taken an enormous toll on the social and economic development of many developing countries.

Furthermore, there was a practical humanitarian need to pay more attention to the Palestine refugees in Lebanon, given the sharp decline in their living conditions.

27. The two major Churches are reported to have experienced not only a sharp decrease in religious worship, but also a decline in membership in recent years.

Curtailing the movement of Palestinian workers into Israel had also resulted in a sharp increase in unemployment and a corresponding decrease in Palestinian income and living standards, already in decline.

Sharp decline in commercial activity (including loss of access to the Arab Israeli market), employment and economic viability, especially along the barrier route itself

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In that connection, her delegation was concerned about the sharp decline in both official development assistance (ODA) and contributions to the core programmes of UNDP.

Sharp nails and sharp words.

Belarus has experienced a steady decline in the number of newly built housing units, and shortages of finance have caused a sharp reduction in the extent of repairs to housing and related services.

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Not even a sharp pencil.

What if other factors say, a sharp decline in emerging market growth led to a sharp rise in global real interest rates, or a rise in risk premia on Japanese debt? In principle, Japan could weather such shocks without high inflation or other extreme measures, but it is folly to deny the country s vulnerability.

10. Following a constant increase in employment during the years of centralized planning and regulation of the economy, a sharp and systematic decline has been observed in the number of Bulgarian citizens employed since 1989.

Regretting that the financial markets have exhibited extreme volatility, which has resulted in higher interest rate spreads and a sharp decline in private capital flows to developing countries, leading to a significant slowdown in economic activity,

So what explains the sharp decline in China s economic output, in an environment of rapid credit expansion? The answer is simple the way the credit is being used.

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Since the beginning of the 1990's, the level of fertility in Israel remained constant with an average of 2.9 births per woman, a sharp decline from the 3.9 average in the 1960's.

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The sharp decline in extrabudgetary resources, in particular for the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and UNEP, was noted with concern.

The sharp decline in extrabudgetary resources, in particular for the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and UNEP was noted with concern.

So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.

In 1992, there was a sharp drop

The sharp decline in industrial activity and the ongoing restructuring in the Russian economy make it likely that energy related CO2 emissions will only return to 1990 levels after 2010.

The result has been a sharp fall in consumer confidence the German index of consumer sentiment was small but positive in November 2000 it has since fallen to 20, the sharpest decline in the euro area.

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