That entails correction of the current inequity and imbalance in its composition.

Indeed, China s current account imbalance, which had remained moderate until the current decade, began its inexorable rise in 2001 precisely when the country joined the WTO.

Expressing concern at the regional imbalance in the current composition of the membership of some of the human rights treaty bodies,

(b) To prepare a comprehensive action plan aimed at reducing the current imbalance in the staff, indicating specific targets and deadlines to be achieved

I was personally reminded of the current global energy imbalance on a recent trip to Nigeria, where per capita electricity consumption is only about 70 kilowatt hours per year.

Financial and economic imbalance can lead to dangerous fiscal imbalance, as tax revenues plunge and social insurance and bailout expenditures rise.

Second, China s external imbalance may also worsen.

We are convinced that reform on the basis of the African Union proposal would considerably improve on the current structure of the Council and would reduce the imbalance of its composition.

In particular, there is an imbalance in the current CRIC review process between the review of reports of affected developing country Parties and those of developed country Parties and relevant agencies.

Unchecked power will lead to imbalance and abuse.

Redressing this imbalance requires a focus on key infrastructure.

The current realities that the Palestinians must reckon with include their strategic, political, and economic imbalance vis à vis Israel and the US, the reality of occupation, and the challenges of diaspora life.

Third, there has been significant improvement in China s external imbalance.

Women's involvement in the economy presented a picture of imbalance.

This outlook for the current account balance does not depend on what happens to the renminbi s exchange rate against other currencies. The saving investment imbalance is fundamental, and it alone determines a country s external position.

(iii) To establish cultural industries that are viable and competitive at the national and international levels, in the face of the current imbalance in the flow and exchange of cultural goods at the global level

Moreover, the current imbalance favouring a continent from which no fewer than three permanent members have the veto would simply become worse whereas the place and role of non permanent members would be further diminished.

This is the forward looking version of the global imbalance issue.

One submission said that staffing imbalance created partiality towards particular issues.

It can be expected that this imbalance would be corrected eventually.

Some speakers said that the imbalance between contributions to regular and other resources needed to be corrected, and called on donors to address the imbalance through predictable multi year pledges.

In terms of brokering a climate deal, this imbalance is good news.

But the disappearance underscores the ongoing imbalance between economic and political reform.

All those problems contribute to the imbalance, and China should fix them.

Such a tax would not have prevented the US China trade imbalance.

First, countries with current account surpluses such as Germany, Japan and China must recognize that their own growth (and that of others) depends on reducing the global savings investment imbalance, which will result in narrowing external deficits elsewhere.

Solving any of these three problems would go a long way toward resolving the long run financing imbalance between current tax rates and America s long run social insurance promises that the debt ceiling debate s instigators supposedly want to address.

China s behavior, it was alleged, was the source of today s huge global imbalance.

Changes to correct the imbalance between presidential and parliamentary power are, indeed, needed.

In fact, the trade imbalance is more complicated than the currency issue per se.

China s main trade partners are deeply worried about the consequences of this continuing imbalance.

The saving investment imbalance is fundamental, and it alone determines a country s external position.

The secretariat is confronted with an imbalance between the mandated workload and staff resources.

Resolution of the external debt servicing problem through the early conclusion of an appropriate programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), aimed at redressing the current macroeconomic imbalance, which will grant the country access to the World Bank's Highly Indebted Poor Countries initiative.

But Europe can take other steps to redress or adapt to the looming demographic imbalance.

Only such an expansion can rectify the existing imbalance in the composition of the Council.

It also seeks to address the fundamental imbalance in the composition of the Security Council.

Another aspect of the recruitment problem was the imbalance in the composition of the Secretariat.

The industry is considered an export business, because it significantly reduces the country's external trade imbalance.

If Fe2 and Ti4 ions are substituted for Al3 , localized areas of charge imbalance are created.

In general, there is a wide gender imbalance between males (75, 4 ) and females (24,6 ), respectively.

Some have suggested that the trade imbalance is related to China s currency peg to the US dollar.

Any focus on trade imbalances thus should center on the major global imbalance that of the US.

Put another way, the global imbalance could be corrected more efficiently by addressing other, more fundamental factors.

It is important to ensure that the outcome in September does not result in a similar imbalance.