The serious decline of the Ivorian economy continues, which increases political tensions and worsens the social conditions in the country.

If the Fed focuses excessively on inflation, it worsens inequality, which in turn worsens overall economic performance. Wages falter during recessions if the Fed then raises interest rates every time there is a sign of wage growth, workers share will be ratcheted down never recovering what was lost in the downturn.

Dwelling on performance anxiety may cause hesitation or a loss of inspiration. As fear turns into fact, the anxiety worsens and so does the performance.

It encourages organized crime it promotes a culture of violence it prolongs and worsens conflicts that take an unacceptable number of civilian victims, primarily women and children.

And people had hope, yes, but until they realized their situation worsens every day either because they are being killed or because, somehow, they are poorer than eight years ago.

As if this were not enough, some countries including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even tiny (but very rich) Qatar have ambitions to be regional powers. All of this worsens an already tense situation.

If, however, the storm worsens, then the changes suggested by the new consensus may not be sufficient and the policy paradigm for development in a globalized market economy may need to be revised.

But markets that rise on both good and bad news are not stable markets. Risk off episodes, in which investor sentiment sours, are likely to return if economic news worsens and confidence in policymakers effectiveness drops.

For the tens of thousands of persons who suffer the emotional, social and economic consequences of the disappearance of their loved ones, the persistent lack of an adequate response from the Government of Iraq worsens the suffering.

So, over time, fiscal accounts worsen automatically, creating a vicious circle monetized fiscal deficits lead to inflation and a widening gap in the parallel exchange rate market which worsens the fiscal deficit. Eventually, a major adjustment of the official rate becomes inevitable.

Unhealthy food and low quality water worsens the state of health, and since these conditions have not changed significantly in the last few years, the crisis is only becoming more serious, and the negative health factors are becoming dominant over the positive ones.

The United Nations needs to reach out more systematically to those regional organizations, and steps should be taken to increase their accountability, particularly in the case of protracted or frozen conflicts, where a situation does not improve or even worsens over the years.

Noting that it is necessary to share information on those substances of abuse as the basis for the development of preventive measures, before the situation worsens, and to help Member States to cooperate more closely in tackling problems associated with those substances,

As a result, when the dollar depreciates against the renminbi, the value of China s foreign liabilities increases in dollar terms, while that of its foreign assets remains unchanged. As a result, China s net international investment position (NIIP), which is the difference between China s gross assets and its gross liabilities, automatically worsens.

As global warming worsens, bleaching our corals and threatening our land as overfishing by foreign fishing fleets continues to deplete our vast fish stocks as certain fishing practices threaten to destroy our marine biodiversity and as the combination of those forces places our diverse island cultures in jeopardy, the challenges mount.

Noting that it is necessary to gather and share information on those drugs and precursors, in order to ensure the development of up to date international measures before the situation worsens, and to help Member States to cooperate more closely in tackling problems involving those substances by placing them under the control of the international drug control treaties,

Romney s proposed contractionary policies nbsp the attempt to reduce deficits prematurely, while the US economy is still frail nbsp will almost surely weaken America s already anemic growth, and, if the euro crisis worsens, it could bring on another recession. At that point, with US demand shrinking, the rest of the world would indeed feel the economic effects of a Romney presidency quite directly.

Romney s proposed contractionary policies the attempt to reduce deficits prematurely, while the US economy is still frail will almost surely weaken America s already anemic growth, and, if the euro crisis worsens, it could bring on another recession. At that point, with US demand shrinking, the rest of the world would indeed feel the economic effects of a Romney presidency quite directly.

If the hypothesis that the new policy on prostitution (lifting of the ban on brothels) actually boosts trafficking in women and worsens the position of female illegal aliens proves to be correct, one could argue that this policy is incompatible with Article 6 of CEDAW, which obliges countries to take every possible measure to combat all forms of trafficking in human beings.

The European Union and its States members, in their public opinion, will not understand and will find it unjustifiable if, after all the efforts deployed, the humanitarian crisis in Bahr el Ghazal worsens again, owing to the lack of willingness of the Government of the Sudan and the Sudanese People s Liberation Army (SPLA) to agree on a timely extension of the ceasefire.

The regulators tersely worded letter to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) asked it to renounce a core component of the industry s multi decade effort to exempt itself from financial debtors bankruptcy an exemption that worsens not only the debtor s stability, but also that of the global economy. Many observers believe that these exemptions hit the world s financial system especially hard when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.

But because reform in Europe is usually only discussed, the benefits fail to materialize people work harder only when they are sure that tax rates are actually cut, and in financial markets the positive effects of lower government spending do not come before any reform is approved. In the meantime, as politicians debate and do nothing, consumer confidence falls, economic performance worsens, and the consensus needed to get reforms approved in the first place vanishes.

This illicit traffic in small arms worsens domestic conflicts in many areas and links activities characteristic of uncivil society, such as terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime, which today constitute serious threats to the stability and security of our countries. Venezuela supports the work of the Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms, particularly the recommendation to convene an international conference on illicit traffic in small arms in all its aspects.

The judge and manager of the dance floor, in spite of many years of experience, is baffled by this crisis on the dance floor and often fails to give the right advice to the fallen dancers. He tries, nevertheless, to help them by offering assistance, in return for which they are to mend their ways in a Draconian manner. And as the dance hall debacle worsens, his attempts to increase resources from the seven most influential owners of the dance hall also fails.

As we see it, this does harm to the work of the Authority, which thus loses some of its members, and it worsens the financial situation of the Authority. At a time when the Council of the Authority is in the process of considering a draft seabed mining code, and having adopted the work plans for exploration by the seven registered pioneer investors, we believe that the Authority should be strengthened rather than weakened through the loss of some of its members.