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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In the policy jargon increasingly heard in today s political discourse, tax reform will be revenue neutral meaning that it will not worsen the budget deficit or drive up the national debt. The broader subliminal message is that you can have whatever you currently expect in terms of government services for less than it costs you now.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The eurozone s fiscal compact is no solution, and the European Central Bank s purchases of sovereign debt are at most a temporary palliative. If the ECB imposes further austerity conditions (as it seems to be demanding of Greece and Spain) in exchange for financing, the cure will only worsen the patient s condition.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Firms and consumers reacted to this year s shocks by temporarily slowing consumption, capital spending, and job creation. As long as the shocks don t worsen (and as some become less acute), confidence and growth will recover in the second half of the year, and stock markets will rally again.

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.

It now remains to be seen whether this momentum can be maintained, which will depend largely on whether the EU can overcome the economic crisis (which continues to worsen in several member countries), restore growth, and curb unemployment. In this sense, European leaders are right to focus on solving the financial crisis in the eurozone.

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.

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,

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.

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.

If things do worsen even more, the world, like it or not, must be prepared to manage and even confront a scenario in which the Kim dynasty, and with it the North Korean state, collapses. Unfortunately, considering the current state of ill preparedness in terms of international coordination, there will be confusion, misunderstanding, and overreaction among South Korea, the US, and China to other actors behavior.

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.

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,

The agreement continues to require primary budget surpluses (net of interest payments), rising to 3.5 of GDP by 2018, which will worsen Greece s slump. Re profiling the country s debt, which is implicitly part of the agreement, will do nothing to ameliorate this, given that interest payments already are minimal through the end of the decade.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, conditions across the Union will likely worsen before they begin to improve. The type of social unrest recently witnessed in Greece may spread, because the downturn is likely to take a disproportionate toll on Europe s young people, who are seeking jobs at a time when hard pressed European businesses will be able to offer them very few.

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.

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.

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.

Iran s choice for its next president, the hardline Mayor of Teheran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is likely to worsen relations with the West and the country s international isolation. Yet in domestic terms the Islamist regime is likely to be better off than it would have been with a more moderate result.

Third, if you plug an unemployment rate of 10 to 11 into any model of loan defaults, you get ugly figures not just for residential mortgages (both prime and subprime), but also for commercial real estate, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, etc. Thus, banks losses on their toxic assets and their capital needs will be much larger than recently estimated, which will worsen the credit crunch.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, significant portions of the international system lack sufficient funding to deliver meaningful progress in critical areas a problem that will only worsen as the needs and expectations of an ever expanding global population grow. In this context, progress on global issues like climate change, cybercrime, income inequality, and the chronic burden of disease are proving elusive.

In countries like the euro zone members, a loss of external competitiveness, caused by tight monetary policy and a strong currency, erosion of long term comparative advantage relative to emerging markets, and wage growth in excess of productivity growth, impose further constraints on the resumption of growth. If growth does not recover, the fiscal problems will worsen while making it more politically difficult to enact the painful reforms needed to restore competitiveness.

There was good news in this summit Europe s leaders have finally understood that the bootstrap operation by which Europe lends money to the banks to save the sovereigns, and to the sovereigns to save the banks, will not work. Likewise, they now recognize that bailout loans that give the new lender seniority over other creditors worsen the position of private investors, who will simply demand even higher interest rates.

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.