The past few years have seen dramatic growth worldwide in the number of such agreements.

Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects. Failure to recognize their impact implies that export and, in turn, growth projections will continue to miss the mark.

During the last 20 years, the world has witnessed dramatic proliferation of regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements. Indeed, bilateral trade flows covered by such agreements now amount to roughly half of the world s imports, and have contributed significantly to the dramatic growth of trade.

China s dramatic manufacturing growth reflected low wages up to now. But as real wages in China and other emerging economies grow, incentives for trade will decline.

The growth in construction was reflected in dramatic growth in the real estate industry, with the real estate market recording an annual sales volume of 245 million, representing a 68 per cent increase over 2003 sales.28

Rapid population growth, a dramatic increase in water consumption due to industrial, agricultural, and tourism growth, and rising standards of living will make the water issue even more important to the region s political stability than it is already.

The dramatic improvement in demand in 2002 2004 did of course provide an incentive to add capacity, particularly in countries where continued strong demand growth was foreseen.

As we meet here today, the dramatic increase in oil prices is threatening to roll back growth possibilities in many African nations, worsening their internal and external imbalances.

There had been a dramatic and welcome growth in regional peacekeeping which reflected the global demand for peacekeeping and testified to the commitment of Member States to the multilateral management of peace.

And the results were super dramatic.

And then something very dramatic happened.

The result of that was pretty dramatic.

Now many of them are intensely dramatic.

I mean it was very dramatic diplomacy.

Figures for FDI were even more dramatic.

It's fairly dramatic, actually, to have this happen.

And that can have dramatic costs for us.

PS A very dramatic transformation has come about.

In many areas, dramatic improvements had taken place.

And then I looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic, but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic.

I mean that's pretty dramatic for our own country.

You see, it's not as dramatic as the tsunami.

Nowadays this idea has a dramatic name Spaceship Earth.

The impact on our humanitarian operations has been dramatic.

Because this has also been a dramatic time of transformation.

Being more balanced doesn't mean dramatic upheaval in your life.

CA The war room sounds, it sounds powerful and dramatic.

And why is this a particularly dramatic challenge right now?

Sometimes this leads to dramatic changes in temperature over short distances.

Now I've never heard it that loud it's actually more dramatic.

Here are some ways that we can make some dramatic changes.

There are no dramatic changes in the percentages when compared to previous figures.

There are no dramatic changes in the percentages when compared to previous figures.

The Secretary General's report cites dramatic figures concerning the victims of natural disasters.

Dramatic, headline grabbing attacks against Iraqi citizens, aimed at breaking their will, continue.

Of course, now that the renminbi has been accepted into the SDR basket, China must prove that it can manage dramatic currency depreciation effectively and continue to make progress toward internationalization. This will be no easy feat, especially at a time of slowing economic growth.

Growth plausibly drove financial development as much as, or more than, institutional development did. While public and private enforcement will need to improve if Brazil s economy is to move to the next level, dramatic legal improvement has not underpinned Brazil s overall financial development so far.

But, in the last ten years or so, we have become concerned about something else rapid world economic growth. While it may seem that no image in the last decade was so dramatic as the first photo of the earth from space, think again.

In what would no doubt be The most dramatic finale of a presidency ever!

The slow extinguishing of countless lives is just not dramatic enough, it would appear.

Hopefully I might get something a bit more dramatic and romantic before I die.

In other words, the rise of the West, dramatic as it was, is over.

Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates. Those changes should also be phased in gradually to protect beneficiaries and avoid an economic downturn.

ITHACA With 2012 underway, it is worth reflecting on how a decade of strong economic growth in emerging markets led to last year s resounding political transformations. From the dramatic events in the Middle East, to the groundswell of support for the anti corruption crusader Anna Hazare in India, leaders in emerging markets are getting a clear message from the streets that growth is not everything.

There is a great example of dramatic temperature differences through the central U.S. on Sunday.