After all, cities are the hubs of prosperity, where more than 80 of global economic activity is concentrated.

Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.

More generally, the Internet gives a sense of vastness to the world s economic activity that was never available before.

As the world s center of economic gravity shifts east, the balance of financial activity is bound to move with it.

Economic activity collapsed and unemployment surged.

The experiences of the 1990s and from economic history more generally show that trade liberalization and global economic integration are greatly facilitated by expansion of economic activity and employment and by improvements in living standards.

Without mutual trust, economic activity is severely constrained.

Much economic activity lies outside the GDP data.

For the first time in history a government controlled all economic activity.

After the Andean highlands, it is the second most important region in economic activity.

But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick start growth.

Recognizing that action against global crime is a common and shared responsibility,

Recognizing that action against global criminal activity is a common and shared responsibility,

First, the tradable part of the global economy where competition for economic activity and jobs is direct is becoming a larger share of the whole the same is true of individual economies.

As global economic activity shifted and the structure of all economies evolved with it, the distributional effects were overwhelmingly benign.

That leaves only monetary policy to support economic activity.

Hardly any major projects between China and Latin America have been initiated by the private, public, or academic sectors, and bilateral institutions do not yet reflect the weight of economic dynamics.

E function or ministers in charge of economic activity Ministers of Finance, Commerce, Industry and Agriculture

The Perfect Storm of a Global Recession

Those unprecedented events will foster economic activity in the Gaza Strip and improve the lives of ordinary Palestinians.

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In the process, the role of states and governments in economic activity will be vastly expanded.

For example, one way for elites to remain in power is to suppress all economic activity.

This policy stimulus led to strong growth, in both consumption and investment, and economic activity recovered quickly.

Some countries (for example, Greece and Portugal) relied on debt financed government spending to fuel economy activity.

Tourism is the primary economic activity, accounting for more than 60 per cent of GDP.

What is true in the area of security also applies in other dimensions of global activity, such as development.

The global economic recovery remains too weak.

The Fed has pursued its strategy of low long term interest rates in the hope of stimulating economic activity.

Economic activity was spiraling downward, while nervous investors were fleeing southern European banks.

Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.

Even the recapitalization of banks through state assistance has not been enough to revive economic activity.

PARIS Economists worldwide need better ways to measure economic activity.

NEW DELHI Few areas of economic activity in the United States are more politicized than housing finance.

Changes in solar activity clearly cannot explain global warming.

While they lasted, the booms that preceded these busts caused these economies to overheat.

What is needed is a root and branch transformation of the way that economic activity is carried out in all Arab nations.

Societies long oriented to economic dynamism tend to welcome the economically successful, viewing them as a source of mutual gains.

SK Thew explains how the economic downturn is aggravating Malaysia s domestic problems

The prospect of increased economic activity at the sea's edge will inevitably result in the increased movement of people to coastal areas.

Another consequence of such crimes was the disruption of payment systems and the diversion of economic activity out of the formal financial system.

The capital held by rural women comes mostly from petty trade, small livestock and farming.

The private sectors in both regions are expected to play a key role in building Asian African economic dynamism.

By the start of 2008, it was clear that controlling inflation and cooling an overheating economy had become the government s main economic target.