Unit labor costs have risen, and potential output growth has fallen.

This figure had fallen to 19 in 2001 02.

Likewise, the number of assassinations decreased from 225 to nine in the past two months.

Female illiteracy has been reduced to acceptable levels, and school dropout rates have declined.

Brazil withdrew its bid three days before the vote, and the field was narrowed to four.

Unemployment soared, the currency depreciated, and food prices rose dangerously.

Growth has resumed, financial risk premia have fallen sharply, foreign investment is picking up, and exports are booming.

The ratio of debt service to exports for these countries has declined to an average of 10 per cent.

Yes, India s economy has slowed sharply, the rupee has plunged, and scandals and protests dominate the headlines.

Indeed, thanks to the scheme, school attendance rates have improved, sometimes by as much as 10 , and dropout rates have declined.

Reserves at year end decreased to 142 million, back to their level of 2001.

Reserves at year's end decreased to 142 million, back to their level of 2001.

Commodity export prices are at record levels, global liquidity has been ample, and international interest rates have been low.

Emergency contributions decreased by 12 per cent compared to 2003 and 3 per cent compared to the financial plan.

Infant mortality rates have dropped significantly from 16.8 per 1,000 to the current 13 per 1,000.

Exports had virtually been halved since the late 1990s, and the debt burden had increased by some 60 per cent during the same period.

Surplus funds substantially decreased following higher than anticipated spending in December 2004.

In the first half of this year, there have been 5.4 per cent fewer fatal accidents, 16.8 per cent fewer accidents caused by drunk driving and 4.7 per cent fewer accidents caused by pedestrians compared with the same period in 2004.

Worldwide, HIV incidence has fallen by one third, and the cost of HIV drugs has dropped more than 99 .

In his State of the Island Address, the Governor announced that the economy of Guam had finally stabilized and had experienced growth for the first time in 10 years.

The number of African households that sleep under insecticide treated bed nets has risen from 3 to 53 , and malaria deaths have fallen by one third.

Coca cultivation in the Andean region steadily decreased, from 221,000 hectares in 2000 to 153,800 hectares in 2003.

Indeed, since the industry launched its public relations campaign in the early 2000 s, cost estimates have increased roughly sevenfold, and profits have declined.

In 2001, there was about a 10.5 percent decline in the incidence of poverty and a 12.4 percent decline in the depth of poverty over the previous year.

However, during the same period, extra budgetary resources dropped by almost 1 million, and in kind contributions also fell by around 0.4 million.

In the past 15 years, thousands of acres of land had been cleared, casualty rates had decreased, refugees had returned safely, and accident survivors had been rehabilitated.

The net amount due to UNDP regular resources decreased from 10.3 million in 2003 to 7.4 million in 2004.

Access to the nearly 1.7 million IDPs encamped in the northern districts has decreased in the past three months.

Saudi Arabia states that 97,450 birds and 93 marine mammals were killed, and turtle hatch rates suffered a 46 per cent reduction as a result of the oil spills.

Risk off episodes, in which investor sentiment sours, are likely to return if economic news worsens and confidence in policymakers effectiveness drops.

Contributions made to WFP declined by 11 per cent, from 3.7 billion in 2003 to 3.3 billion in 2004.

Down 40 percent in our broadloom carpet business, which we acquired in 1993 right here in California, City of Industry, where water is so precious.

Because of their pressure, employment fell, reducing the share of wages in total national income by 10 over the past 30 years.

Turkey s unemployment rate is currently at its lowest point in a decade, and the public debt ratio is significantly below the pre crisis level.

As the flow of funds from the world to US homeowners was disrupted, house prices collapsed by 30 , and construction of new homes by more than 70 .

As a result of government funded national health insurance, the Nordic countries have a higher life expectancy and a lower infant mortality rate than the US. Life expectancy is close to 80 years in the Nordic countries, compared to 78 years in the US, where the government does not guarantee national health insurance and millions of families are too poor to pay for it on their own.

The demographic decline due to the plague had some economic consequences the prices of food dropped and land values declined by 30 to 40 in most parts of Europe between 1350 and 1400.

Over 4,000 radio stations were bought out, and minority ownership in TV stations dropped to its lowest point since 1990, when the federal government began tracking the data.

It decreased marginally to 46.1 for the 1990 elections, to 45.5 for the 1993 elections and to 44.5 for the 1997 elections.

Ninety per cent of children under 5 were immunized against preventable diseases and infant mortality rates had fallen dramatically in the previous decade.

Multilateral funding fell from 19 percent in 2002 to 12 percent in 2003, which to some extent restricted the efficiency of WFP's interventions.

The ratio of regular resources income to total income decreased to 40 per cent in 2004 compared to 43 per cent in 2003 and 45 per cent in the financial plan.

In Engineering, the proportion of female graduates has increased from 16.30 percent in 1999 to 18.80 percent in 2000, and has slightly decreased to 17.79 in 2001.

Moreover, during the Great Recession, office and administrative jobs declined by 8 , production and craft jobs fell by 17 , and the number of positions for machine operators, fabricators, and laborers dropped by 15 .

The assets to liabilities ratio was down from 2.4 at the end of 2003 to 2.1 at the end of 2004, with assets of 264 million and short term liabilities of 123 million.