This is so despite the growth of the other three media.

The programme continued to increase sustainability despite continued growth in operating expenses.

Despite spectacular economic growth, Mozambique was the sixth poorest country in the world.

Despite the natural growth of the refugee population the UNRWA budget was not increasing.

First, poverty rates increased despite overall growth in the economy and in employment rates.

Despite encouraging signs of economic growth among members, the region still faced daunting challenges.

6. Despite the favourable economic growth developments, there have been a number of negative developments.

Despite renewed economic growth in many developing countries, unemployment and underemployment were still serious problems.

Despite real growth in gross domestic product, most least developed countries have fallen even further behind.

55. Despite the optimistic outlook, and although progress had been made since the negative growth of the 1980s, economic growth had remained modest 0.8 per cent from 1991 to 1996.

Despite expected programme delivery growth in both regular and other resources, the Administrator is presenting a zero net real growth budget for 2006 2007, excluding the support budget requirements for UNCDF.

Also, despite a decline in interest rates, monetary policy has remained stringent and the lira has appreciated, slowing export growth.

This growth had been accompanied by increases in greenhouse gas emissions, despite the commitment of these Parties to reduce them.

66. Despite relatively robust growth achieved in some developing countries, poverty remains deeply entrenched, with major income disparities persisting.

Despite the difficulties of the transitional period, Georgia had accomplished major progress in establishing democratic institutions and stabilizing the growth of its economy.

In addition, despite reforms in recent years, the non oil sectors of the economy are not yet a viable alternative source of growth.

The growth potential inherent in the age structure explains why, despite a reduction in fertility in Peru, 600,000 people are born every year.

29. Despite overall global economic growth, 89 countries are worse off economically than they were 10 or more years ago.

Despite the significant results achieved under PIP, the capacity of the Agency s education system was not expanding at a rate commensurate with enrolment growth.

The Arab leaders express their gratification at the growth of the global economy and the continued improvement in economic growth rates in Arab States, despite the adverse developments and events that have taken place in the region.

The Committee is also deeply concerned about the growth in the number of street children despite the efforts of the Government to tackle the problem.

Many of the countries in Latin America, for instance, have experienced slow economic growth despite being fairly advanced in the transition to low fertility.

58. Mr. AMMARIN (Jordan) said that, despite the increase in global growth rates, highlighted in the World Economic and Social Survey of 1996, recent acceleration of growth had actually been much slower than that of the 1980s.

Despite some internal and external constraints, last year we achieved a record 6.27 per cent growth in our gross domestic product.

Therefore, in the 2000 2003 period, despite falling prices of agricultural products in the world market, Vietnam's agriculture enjoyed continuous growth at 4 per annum.

This reflects the fact that despite a considerable reduction of tariffs and quotas the growth of exports from developing to developed countries has been limited.

Regarding the social dimension, it must be noted that despite high indexes of economic growth, the majority of the population lives in conditions of extreme poverty.

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Despite a period of employment growth in 2003, the number of unemployed remained three times higher in the third quarter of 2004 than in September 2000.

Despite the difficult conditions of civil war, GDP growth averaged 6.8 per cent from 1987 to 1997 and 9.8 per cent from 1987 to 1989.

35. Despite the external factors, including zero growth budgets throughout the period, the substantive units of the Secretariat maintained and even increased the number of initially programmed outputs.

Empirical evidence has shown that the growth in trade of ICT goods and services has grown at a faster pace than growth in total trade and remains high despite an overall global slow down in the trade of such goods.

Despite their low income levels, by virtue of their numbers, this group of persons, if targeted, could generate significant growth and activity for businesses.

Given this, one might ask how China managed to achieve such impressive growth over the last 20 years, despite rampant corruption. The answer probably lies in its selectocracy.

Nor have stabilization and structural adjustment programs, imposed since the 1980 s, delivered on their promise of achieving higher economic growth. Growth in much of the world during the past quarter century has been slower than in the previous 25 years, despite more rapid growth in East Asia, India, and a few other countries.

Yet, despite the positive implications of the increase in world trade for prosperity and efficiency, sustained growth in international trade can complicate efforts to control the illicit drug problem.

That had arisen from that fact that, in general, the master plans for Palestinian towns and villages had not been adjusted since 1948, despite the growth of the population.

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It was observed that a number of developing countries, especially in East Asia and Latin America, have registered current account surpluses, despite strong import growth.

Kenya apos s industrial sector, however, had recorded a growth of 3.9 per cent in 1994, despite competition from imported products in its liberalized economy.

What is of significance in Sri Lanka apos s case, is that distribution of income has shown equality despite a relatively low average growth rate.

Moreover, the relationship between growth and poverty in least developed countries has never been either automatic or straightforward 7 despite their greater economic growth in the decade, the incidence of poverty in the least developed countries remained high, at about 43 per cent.8

He said, The potential is still good means that despite the fallback of economic growth, the overall economic performance is stable and steady. And the good momentum has not changed.

75. The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 1998 stressed the fundamental objective of long term development, namely, growth and equity, despite the current East Asia crisis.

Despite nerve wracking ups and downs, the last 50 years delivered an unprecedented global growth dividend. Measured according to GDP (admittedly a flawed metric), the world economy expanded sixfold.