The situation has markedly improved now.

Look a decade ago, look two decades ago markedly different.

In some countries, primary education enrolment and adult literacy had increased markedly.

The situation is markedly worse among rural populations, women and the indigenous population.

At end December 2002, lumber production showed mixed results, while exploitation activities had improved markedly.

UNLB has dedicated three warehouses for SDS and has markedly improved its material management capacity.

The situation is markedly different if parties with clearly unequal bargaining power contract with one another.

They may also be both in French and in another language provided that French is markedly predominant.

Relations between the North and the South who are still technically at war have markedly improved in recent months.

Not all countries experiencing a decline of fertility have seen economic growth increase markedly as a result of the demographic bonus.

In recent years, efforts have been markedly revitalized in all regions of Tajikistan to involve the female population in physical fitness activities and sports.

They also differed markedly in the extent to which and in the ways in which they shared budget information with citizens and other critical stakeholders.

And the result is great comedy that's also an information delivery system that scores markedly higher in both credibility and retention than the professional news media.

The degree of participation of women in the distribution of food and non food items improved markedly, but the challenge of participation in actual decision making remains.

Special attention will be paid to voluntary agreements that improve the opportunities of migrant women returning to work, since certain ethnic minority women are markedly under represented in employment.

It was pointed out with regret that the participation of indigenous peoples in the Millennium Development Goal setting and implementation process, particularly at the national level, was markedly minimal.

However, while the situation had markedly improved in Sub Saharan Africa and Europe, countries in Central, South and South West Asia seemed to have fallen back close to the baseline level.

Although incentives and quality of life played a larger role in people's decision to move to Lachin, the general reasons for settlement do not differ markedly from those found in the other territories.

Borders have been made more secure and societies more resilient. International cooperation has increased markedly, in part because governments that cannot agree on many things can agree on the need to cooperate in this area.

In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps. Brazil is the recent pacesetter, markedly expanding public education and systematically attacking remaining pockets of poverty through targeted transfer programs.

Whatever one thinks of American military intervention, one must concede that it has altered the region s dynamics. Domestic opposition forces, while distancing themselves from the US, have been markedly emboldened in Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere.

But the end result would be similar. Both the welfare of research animals and the quality of the science would be markedly improved, leading to data that could be meaningfully applied to our quest for medical knowledge.

But what is clear is that Japan and other East Asian countries followed a markedly different course from that recommended by the neo liberal Washington Consensus. Their policies worked all too often, those of the Washington Consensus failed miserably.

According to this view, soaring stock markets merely reflect low discounting of future profits. Moreover, labor's share of profits seems to have fallen markedly in recent decades across the world's eight largest economies, with the possible exception of the United Kingdom.

Witness what is happening in Germany, a well managed country once thought itself immune from the troubles around it. After a period of record low unemployment, economic growth has slowed markedly, reaching just 0.2 in quarterly terms in July September.

That adds up to a tough reform agenda made all the more challenging by adjustment fatigue, increasingly fragmented domestic politics, and rising geopolitical tensions. In this context, a determined shift toward markedly higher and more inclusive global growth is far from guaranteed.

It is therefore encouraging that the presence of women members in parliament in many post conflict countries has shown a tendency to increase markedly after the conflict, invariably resulting in figures for women members of parliament that are well above the world average.

Welcoming the fact that the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative has enabled heavily indebted poor countries to markedly increase their expenditures on health, education and other social services consistent with national priorities, development plans, and internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

After all, economic growth, while unnecessarily held below potential by Congress (and vulnerable to decline if Congress is not careful), has again outpaced that of Europe. The budget deficit has fallen markedly, while companies and households, too, have continued to strengthen their balance sheets.

Hard core poverty is set to be eliminated by 2010, with the overall poverty rate falling to 2.8 . Malaysia has succeeded in markedly reducing the income divides that separated various ethnic groups, not by bringing the top down, but by bringing the bottom up.

Both were reluctant to lower interest rates markedly. Indeed, financial markets may have taken the Fed s view on US inflation as representative of other central banks outlook on inflation, reinforced by the surprising ECB decision of October 2 to keep interest rates on hold.

In the US, investment spending declined from 23.6 of GDP in 1990 to 19.3 in 2013, and fell even more markedly in net terms (gross investment excluding capital depreciation). In the European Union, the decline was from 24 of GDP in 1990 to 18.1 in 2013.

In northern Ethiopia, as in much of Africa, the rain cycle has changed markedly in recent years. Ethiopian village life has long depended on two crops, one during a short rain in March and April, and the main crop during the long rain in the summer months.

The United States trade and current account deficits have begun to shrink relative to American and world GDP. Asian current account surpluses are about to start to shrink as well, especially if growth slows markedly in America in the aftermath of the end of its housing boom.

The development of the Conference's work must necessarily, in my view, be evaluated within this general process, and also in relation to the various different national perceptions of security that many States, especially those most concerned with nuclear disarmament, still uphold in markedly singular terms and approaches.

But the two countries markedly different foreign policy approaches will not facilitate matters. While the US tends to segment problems in order to find solutions to each part within a finite period of time, China relies on broad, long term perspective and views issues as extended, relative processes.

The world today is markedly different from the world at the time of the founding of the World Bank and many of the regional development banks. The BRICS proposed New Development Bank presents an important opportunity to reflect these changes, with modern financial instruments, strong governance, and a broad based mandate.

The international importance of the China India relationship reflects the fact that together they account for 37 of humanity. Although they represent markedly different cultures and competing models of development, they share a historical similarity that helps shape both countries diplomacy each freed itself from colonial powers around the same time.

In this period, when resources flowed to this innovative sector, GDP growth was markedly lower than it was before. Even in the best of times, it did not lead to an increase in living standards (except for the bankers), and it eventually led to the crisis from which we are only now recovering.

In any case, not much weight, in my judgment, should be given to the IMF s statistical studies of the impact of foreign aid on growth, partly because the results do not appear to be very robust. Different studies, with slightly different data sets, different countries, different techniques, and different years yield markedly different results.

Interest payments account for an ever larger share of budgets and will continue to grow when interest rates start to rise again. In the absence of strong political commitment and credible plans for gradual fiscal consolidation, there is a distinct risk that at some point sovereign yields will rise markedly with negative implications for the economy and politics.

It is, of course, true that real long term interest rates have declined quite markedly not suddenly and not only recently, but at a fairly steady pace for more than twenty years. According to the IMF, world real long term interest rates peaked at nearly 7 on average in 1984, and fell to just below 2 by 2004.

Key elements of its development strategy including its stress on education, equality, and land reform are even more important today in Africa. The world has changed markedly since East Asia began its remarkable developmental transition more than a half century ago and differences in history, institutions, and circumstances mean that policies must be adapted to local conditions.

But, as Spence puts it with regard to economic reform itself, you need to take small steps in order to make a big difference in the long run. It is quite a feat to have achieved the degree of consensus he has around a set of ideas that departs in places so markedly from the traditional approach.

But the military pays disability benefits that are markedly lower than the value of lost earnings. Similarly, payments for those who are killed amount to only 500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death, sometimes referred to as the statistical value of a life ( 6.1 to 6.5 million).