And, indeed, recent data point to a rapidly worsening economic environment in Germany, where the trade surplus has shrunk dramatically in recent months.

Recent economic data in China, India, Brazil, and Turkey point to the weakest growth performance in these countries in years.

And the recent optimism that economies will bottom out by mid year have been dashed by the most recent economic data.

Economic Forecasts in the Age of Big Data

To be sure, the economic data have softened.

Recent economic trends and developments in the ESCWA region

For example, OECD has a history of expressing trade data in terms of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Statistics Division introduces trade data in terms of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC).

E. Harmonization of data collection activities with environmental economic accounting concepts and definitions

Under an initiative by the coordinator of the group of least developed countries, a first questionnaire on the NAPA preparation process was circulated at the twentieth sessions of the subsidiary bodies among representatives of the LDCs.

Recent data suggest that capital has started returning to southern Europe.

9 and endnote 5). Included in the latter category was the Model Law on Electronic Commerce, which defined the terms data message and electronic data interchange from a functional perspective.

New York Recent data suggest that the rate of contraction in the world economy may be slowing. But hopes that green shoots of recovery may be springing up have been dashed by plenty of yellow weeds.

Some recent data suggest that the decline in house prices may be coming to an end.

Recent data from the International Monetary Fund highlight these models simultaneous loss of effectiveness.

International organizations have substantially improved their online dissemination systems over the last years.

Some of the recent economic news has seemed to justify this approach.

However, in recent years, a new set of economies has emerged that is contesting the affluent countries economic dominance.

Source Federal Institute for statistics, Statistical data on economic and other trends, several editions

Disturbing signals for the world economy have also come from recent surveys of economic activity.

CHICAGO Turkey has recently been at the forefront of international economic and political debates.

(e) Work towards the harmonization of data collection activities of environment and related statistics with concepts and definitions of environmental economic accounting, including the assurance of data quality.

And so if we look at recent crashes the whole data set is almost 30 years' worth of data you won't see it in the recent crashes. The new car seats are far, far better.

Recent US data have clearly raised the probability that the economy will run out of steam and decline during the next 12 months.

Moreover, experimental data suggest that, contrary to mainstream economic theory, people s preferences are changeable.

In joint research with Nicolas Coeurdacier and Stéphane Guibaud, we show that economic data supports this view.

First, domestic economic and political conditions in Iran have changed markedly since the last round of talks.

BRUSSELS The need for clean energy has returned to the top of the global economic agenda.

14.3 African countries have made significant progress in economic and social development in recent years.

Today, such talk has been displaced by concern about what The Economist calls the great slowdown. Recent economic data in China, India, Brazil, and Turkey point to the weakest growth performance in these countries in years.

(a) Firstly, it compiles a wide range of economic, social and environmental data and information and analyses them with a view to identifying trends and taking stock of policy options

So, while the economic numbers may look bad, the country s political leadership looks great.

Stated otherwise, national accounts as systems may be distinguished from the economic data associated with those systems.

The Department of Economic and Social Affairs will present the results of the recent workshop and the deliberations of the four regional workshops in a publication.

Continued softness in recent data from purchasing managers sentiment and industrial output to retail sales and exports has heightened the anxiety.

But recent data support the view that the housing sector could be in the process of establishing a bottom, albeit an elongated one.

This power vacuum has reinforced the absence of leadership on global economic and political governance within the G 20 since it succeeded the G 7 at the onset of the recent economic and financial crisis.

The most obvious fact in the data is the great disparity in the economic positions of castes sharing the same ritual rank.

In February 2004, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs launched the Partnerships for Sustainable Development database.

NEW DELHI Two fundamental beliefs have driven economic policy around the world in recent years.

DAKAR In recent years, China and Africa have formed one of the modern era s most successful economic and trade partnerships.

In the northern Mediterranean, many databases are available in farming resources, land use and socio economic conditions.

The improved maintenance of business registers and increased use of administrative data go a long way in reducing the response burden, improving the response rate of economic enquiries and minimizing the resources required for data collection.

NEW YORK Recent data suggest that job market conditions are not improving in the United States and other advanced economies.

The final step is to validate the model by comparing the results with what is expected based on historical data from the study area.

This means that the growth of individual developing countries depends not only on their domestic economic policies the focus of debates on economic development in recent decades.