In his preliminary report, the Special Rapporteur warned that the situation in Ecuador could worsen if the normal working of the country's institutions was not restored.

Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low carbon economies. But this threatens to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Yet lessons learned in dealing with exotic species, combined with recent mathematical models of the evolutionary dynamics of tumors, indicate that eradicating most cancers may be impossible. Trying to do so, moreover, could worsen the problem.

The human rights situation in Côte d'Ivoire has continued to worsen in the reporting period.

Simply put, without a shared approach to security and a dedicated joint response, overcoming our current challenges will be virtually impossible. And, in fact, the situation could worsen considerably, with so called frozen conflicts heating up and reverting to armed confrontation.

With the right international support, Sudan could move decisively towards peace and democracy in the coming months. If the international community fails the challenge, conflicts and tensions that have already cost hundreds of thousands of lives will continue and worsen.

The reason for the ranking decline is that Brazilian GDP growth is expected to worsen in the medium term.

The impact of the embargo on care for boys and girls with special educational needs has continued to worsen.

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

For sub Saharan Africa, it is unacceptable that, despite our commitment at the Millennium Summit five years ago, the prediction is that conditions will worsen by 2015.

Deeply concerned that the collateral effects of the ongoing drought continue to worsen, as evidenced by the high levels of malnutrition ranging from 19 to 22 per cent,

This concern is a first cousin to the old mercantilist focus on whether a policy will improve or worsen the trade balance. A mercantilist could be defined as someone who believes that gains go only to the country that enjoys a higher trade surplus, mirrored by losses for the trading partner that runs a correspondingly higher deficit.

Because of climate panic, our attempts to mitigate climate change have provoked an unmitigated disaster. We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.

The other is that, until and unless we control this epidemic, it will continue to expand and worsen for decades, killing unbelievably large numbers of people and wrecking entire societies.

It was disheartening that each year their situation continued to worsen, particularly with the escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, over the past five years.

In 2002, the US Census Bureau reported that health insurance coverage, considered a prerequisite of adequate medical care, was not only eroding but would likely worsen over the next several years.

But the Union could see its reputation worsen if it allows its commitment to Lebanon to become part of the emerging US strategy of isolating Iran by hardening today s regional Sunni Shia divisions. To avoid this fate, the EU s commitment in Lebanon needs to be supplemented with a nuanced political strategy that seeks to avoid isolating Lebanon s long suppressed Shia population.

Meanwhile, the causes of global imbalance on the US side also seem unlikely to disappear any time soon. And now, with the Fed s QE2 on the table, conditions may worsen before they improve.

European leaders need to get serious about Europe s cocaine problem. The white lady is seducing a steadily growing number of Europeans, and remaining in a state of denial will only worsen the consequences.

For the US, the fundamental cause of imbalances is not a strong dollar, but America s over consumption and over borrowing. A strengthening dollar would worsen the US trade balance, but a weakening dollar could cause panic in capital markets, which might push up risk premia on dollar denominated assets, including US government securities, in turn leading to an economic slowdown and a further weakening of the dollar.

By contrast, if global populations continue to rise rapidly, the stresses on the world's resources will worsen. Governments should therefore refrain from deliberate policies to raise birthrates, even in places where birth rates are low.

Second, China s fiscal position will worsen rapidly because of massive local government debt. And, third, the collapse of underground credit networks in bustling cities such as Wenzhou will lead to a broad financial crisis across the country.

That would be a major loss. Allowing existing protectionist trade barriers to remain in place or worsen would not only deprive citizens in TPP countries of higher incomes it would also deal a damaging blow to international cooperation.

In the next few months, Europe s debt crisis will most likely worsen. With emerging economies (including China) slowing, and with meaningful multilateral policy coordination remaining inadequate, protectionist pressures will mount as major trading powers compete for a stagnant pie.

But these demand reducing measures also reduce economic growth, causing deficit reduction targets to be missed. Getting fiscal consolidation back on track then requires more spending cuts, which depress growth still further, causing budget performance to worsen even more.

The living conditions of the Ivorian population, particularly in the west and the north, continue to worsen, with significant interruptions in the supply of potable water in both rural and urban areas, and diminishing access to basic health care.

He therefore reaffirmed that the international community should give priority to the problem of water in order to ensure that it did not worsen to the point where it became a source of conflict and an obstacle to development.

Xinhua News Agency reported that heavily polluted weather will descend on Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding regions from the 16th and worsen by the 19th. The AQI of three cities in Hebei, namely Shijiazhuang, Xinji and Handan, will be dramatically high.

That has not been Uganda s experience. In 2009, under pressure from the aid community, the government enacted what was billed at the time as the best anti corruption legislation in the world and yet all corruption indicators have continued to worsen.

According to the International Society of Nephrology, kidney disease affects more than 500 million people worldwide, or 10 of the adult population. With more people developing high blood pressure and diabetes (key risks for kidney disease), the picture will only worsen.

In the United States, the number of experts giving a favorable assessment of the current situation declined indeed, a majority believes that the economic situation will worsen during the next six months. However, in the Asian countries, including China, the optimism is unbroken.

So, over time, fiscal accounts worsen automatically, creating a vicious circle monetized fiscal deficits lead to inflation and a widening gap in the parallel exchange rate market which worsens the fiscal deficit. Eventually, a major adjustment of the official rate becomes inevitable.

Another caveat is that technological change may worsen the income distribution if the jobs that are destroyed are those filled by unskilled workers. Less demand for their services will cause their relative (and perhaps absolute) wages to drop, causing income inequality to rise.

South Africa has the continent s largest economy and, until the global financial crisis, posted 10 years of steady economic growth. In an economic slowdown, the country s severe crime problem might only worsen so might unemployment, which already tops 20 in the formal economy.

In some cases, they can do this on their own, so all that is needed is liquidity support to avoid a collapse of the exchange rate and allow for the adjustment to occur. In other cases, the capital outflows only worsen already difficult situations.

This regional stasis may worsen as a result of growing nationalism an increase in social divisions within states weapons proliferation and an increase in military spending and environmental degradation. It seems that Latin America has abandoned the principles, commitments, and foundations of full regional integration.

If the world continues on its current course, labor market imbalances will worsen significantly in the coming years. Indeed, the world faces a potential shortage of 30 40 million college educated workers in 2020, and a potential surplus of 95 million low skilled workers.

Could be, could be.

Yet its appeal to some is understandable, given that the country s economic situation has continued to worsen over the last few months. Growth is anemic, unemployment is high, and new investment has fallen off dramatically all of which complicate already difficult financial, social, and political conditions.

But Burma s regime actually perpetuates conditions that sustain and worsen the HIV AIDS epidemic by restricting access to counseling, medication, and other support services. In order for HIV AIDS programs to be effective and sustainable, affected communities must have the freedom to organize and empower themselves.

Ultimately, change will not come unless and until Sweden s leaders address these problems. Officials and opinion shapers must understand that this perilous state of affairs will worsen if they fail to take their responsibilities more seriously, tone down their rhetoric, and adopt a balanced approach to Israel.

The key question is whether the political gridlock exposed by the debt ceiling debate will worsen in the run up to the 2012 presidential and congressional elections if not beyond. That is possible, but we should not overlook cause for hope in what America s politicians just accomplished.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

There are so many things you could do. You could pay for uniforms, you could eliminate fees, you could build latrines, you could give girls sanitary pads, etc., etc.