The private sector has met most of the growing demand for childcare.

The past decade has seen a growing demand for United Nations humanitarian assistance.

Regional programmes are generally understaffed to meet a growing demand for their services.

But demand was ever growing and it was difficult to tamper with existing documents.

The growing demand for natural resources puts a premium on promoting regional cooperation policies.

Public services there are no longer adequate given the increased demand of a constantly growing population.

The growing and insistent demand for integrity in public life further emphasizes the complexity of modern public administration.

Insofar as there is growing overall demand and segmentation of demand, the existence of unorganized retailing would not be expected to be put at risk as a result of reform.

Accordingly the global demand for nuclear knowledge and materials, including the programs for development of fuel cycle facilities are growing rapidly.

In rapidly developing nations, demand for energy intense foods, like meat, is growing, increasing the total amount of fossil fuels used.

New capacity is mainly planned in developing countries and countries in transition with relatively low production costs and rapidly growing domestic demand.

Market trends increasingly reveal the growing demand for diversified travel experiences, from seaside resorts (often linked to mass tourism) to cultural discoveries.

UNOPS experienced growing demand for its services, particularly for project management services supporting large scale, complex programme activities in post conflict and transitional situations.

To meet the growing demand for information, the Department must adopt innovative media and newer, faster technologies and optimize the tools it already had.

The underlying causes of deforestation include the demand on forest land for agriculture, grazing and human settlements the growing demand for timber and forest products and a range of biotic and abiotic factors that adversely affect forest health and vitality.

Economic and financial nationalisms threaten. There is talk of currency wars, national management and regulation of banking, and growing demand for greater levels of trade protection.

It is against this background that The World's Women 2005 analyses the extent to which the growing demand for gender statistics is being met by Governments.

A growing proportion of States have a multisectoral and coordinated national drug control strategy in place, offering the political and strategic foundations for effective demand reduction.

In that connection, there is a worldwide effort under way to ensure that there are sufficient amounts of the raw material available to meet growing demand.

As the representatives of Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran had pointed out, high oil prices were indeed caused by growing demand rather than restricted supply.

As a result, the income of the global elite is growing both rapidly and independently of what is happening in terms of overall output and employment growth. Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand. At the same time, rising incomes are altering people s diets, which now include more animal based proteins, further compounding Asia s food challenges.

This trend mirrors the growing demand of both beneficiary and donor countries, as well as the widening scope of the trade and development challenges faced by all developing countries.

The world market may just be able to absorb a 10 per cent growth in supply over two years, provided that Chinese demand continues growing at its recent rates.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was the envy of the world, owing to an all powerful export machine that tapped the demand of a rapidly growing global economy. Japan, Inc. still has a good institutional memory of what it takes to draw support from external demand.

The achievement of UNOPS in growing and diversifying its business portfolio demonstrates, inter alia, that there is demand for UNOPS services and recognition of the added value that UNOPS provides.

Over the past few decades, responding to steadily growing demand, the system has seen a welcome expansion in its membership as well as in the scale and scope of its activities.

A large part of this was related to investment in natural resources, supported by a strong rise in global commodity prices and growing demand for diamonds, gold, oil, platinum and palladium.

But controlling supply is not enough. If all of Colombia s farmers stopped growing coca tomorrow, unrestrained demand by the world s 13 million cocaine users would quickly generate as much cultivation somewhere else.

First, high commodity prices yield windfall profits for the region s leading producers of raw materials. Growing demand for energy, metals, and minerals particularly in China has driven unprecedented levels of foreign investment.

Fortunately, in Europe, that market demand is growing rapidly. One hopes that it will soon reach similar levels throughout the developed world, and wherever people can make choices about their discretionary spending.

A fourth trend, which has emerged in the past years, is related to a growing demand to make democracy more meaningful and to allow for more opportunities of participation in policymaking.4

The warming of the Arctic and the growing demand for the natural resources of the region are leading to a rapid increase in navigation in areas previously considered inaccessible to commercial shipping.

Summers emphasizes the inadequacy of aggregate demand, exacerbated by the inability of central banks to reduce nominal interest rates below zero. The reasons for weak aggregate demand include aging populations that consume less and the growing concentration of wealth among the very rich, whose marginal propensity to consume is small.

With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly. Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars.

Moreover, new dimensions of the problem of energy security have emerged in the last few years. One is the great increase in energy demand from the rapidly growing economies of Asia, particularly China.

At the same time, rapidly growing middle classes across the developing world would constitute a new source of demand. With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

Gross merchandise volume in online retail sales is approaching CN 2 trillion ( 316 billion), and growing at a rate of 40 60 annually. Many other industry segments serving domestic demand are also growing at double digit rates, suggesting that domestic consumption is already making a more significant contribution to China s GDP growth.

At the global level, the capacity of forests and the amount of land suitable for forest restoration is theoretically sufficient to meet the growing demand for forest products in the near to mid term.

While oil prices should indeed be viewed in the context of growing demand, the limited technical capacities of the developing countries which comprised the majority of energy exporting countries  should be taken into account.

Growth was exceptionally strong in several large developing countries in Latin America and in South and East Asia, where China and India continued to be the fastest growing economies and dynamic sources of global demand.

Moreover, the use of wood by Africa s growing population is causing increasingly rapid deforestation in many countries. There is significant potential domestic demand for coal briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.

It is a challenge owing to the persistent discrepancy between the rate of economic growth in these countries, which limits Government budgetary allocations to meet the growing demand for primary education and that of population increase.

Much anxiety is directed toward growing demand for meat and dairy products in China and India. But per capita meat consumption in the United States and Europe is still more than three times higher than in either country.

Growing worker insecurity is seen as the basis for a healthy economy. Labor market liberalization in such circumstances not only undermines remaining social protection, but is also likely to diminish real incomes, aggregate demand, and, hence, recovery prospects.