A vicious downward spiral followed, with mounting indebtedness further constraining investment, diversification and income growth.

Another constraining factor is the shortage of finance.

Scarcity of appropriate skills is another factor constraining firms.

The lack of involvement of men and boys is an additional constraining factor.

24. Perhaps the most constraining factor inhibiting development was the lack of adequate financial resources.

A related issue was competition policy, which could become a constraining factor as liberalization proceeded.

Quite simply by constraining the amount of unsafeguarded fissile material available for potential use in nuclear explosives.

But there will always be technical, financial and other factors constraining the number of mines to be cleared every day.

Given the extent to which insufficient demand is constraining growth, investment should come first. Faced with tight fiscal (and political) constraints, policymakers should abandon the flawed notion that investments with broad and, to some extent, non appropriable public benefits must be financed entirely with public funds.

In addition, investment related information, particularly on financial and economic costs and benefits, remains extremely limited, thus further constraining environment related investment.

Government authorities at the national and local levels have increasingly been harassing humanitarian organizations and thus constraining the provision of humanitarian assistance.

At a time when humanitarian assistance has to rely increasingly on air operations, funding gaps risk constraining the delivery of life saving assistance.

While shortage of finance could affect all firms, it is particularly constraining for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and firms in LDCs.

Today s global economy bears striking similarities to the immediate post war period high unemployment, high and rising debt levels, and a global shortage of aggregate demand are constraining growth and generating deflationary pressures. And now, as then, the level and quality of investment have been consistently inadequate, with public spending on tangible and intangible capital a critical factor in long term growth well below optimal levels for some time.

Far from constraining the Council apos s efficiency, this will improve the decisions it takes and render its actions more effective. (A 53 PV.15)

As part of its poverty reduction campaign, the department has taken steps to make the work of women in the mines more visible and less constraining.

It is the sort of pretense of knowledge that the economist Friedrich von Hayek denounced as a recipe for constraining freedom and ensuring economic mediocrity. Indeed, the European project should start from the premise that appropriate institutions, property rights, and competition, together with a growth friendly tax system and solid fiscal policies, are the basis of economic success.

Financial re regulation should and will emphasize capital, reserve, and margin requirements limiting systemic risk buildup by constraining leverage eliminating fragmented and incomplete regulatory coverage and regulatory arbitrage (a huge challenge internationally) and a focus on transparency. Isolating and further constraining a portion of the banking system, so that the channels of credit intermediation are less prone to complete and simultaneous breakdown, also seems likely.

Often it is the constraining or the back to the wall situation that the hapless common man finds himself or herself in that leads him to pay a bribe.

Indeed, recent data have effectively silenced hints by some Federal Reserve officials that the Fed should begin exiting from its current third (and indefinite) round of quantitative easing (QE3). Given slow growth, high unemployment (which has fallen only because discouraged workers are leaving the labor force), and inflation well below the Fed s target, this is no time to start constraining liquidity.

Constraining American policy may, therefore, be one of the motivations behind Israel s incursion into Gaza. Yet it is a grave challenge to international peace and could spread instability throughout the region.

Targeted goals have been established, but the constraining factor for us and I believe this applies to many of us in the developing world is a shortage of financial and technical resources.

Growth

Growth.

And it became ever clearer that economic growth doesn't automatically translate into social growth or human growth.

The label created a self imposed restriction, constraining Nestlé to sell a relatively narrow range of products. In 2010, however, the company s CEO, Paul Bulcke, redefined Nestlé as a nutrition, health, and wellness company.

Legally constraining this capacity would be self defeating. So, if the OMT scheme is not feasible under current treaty provisions, these provisions which, after all, are of human, not divine, origin must be amended.

Austere Growth?

Demographic growth

Spike growth

Growth rate ( )

GDP growth

Annual growth

producing growth.

In many countries, inadequate local water availability is increasingly constraining decisions about where to set up new manufacturing facilities and energy plants. The World Bank estimates that such constraints are costing China 2.3 of GDP.

Combined with widespread natural disasters in the mid 1990s and limited interaction with the world economy, this led to a sharp economic downturn seriously constraining the Government's ability to feed and care for its people.

This implies, in particular, very elaborate growth techniques and optimized growth conditions.

Moreover, US schools, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, continue to slip down the global scale, constraining Americans ability to benefit from globalization. Meanwhile, existing and newly created jobs provide less of an earnings upside.

This structure contrasts with the pre 1980 business cycle, which rested on wage growth tied to productivity growth and full employment. Wage growth, rather than borrowing and financial booms, fuelled demand growth.

Growth was negative.

First, population growth.

Second, economic growth.

That's called growth.

China s Growth Secret

Inspiring Economic Growth