The IMF is at the epicenter of large scale global coordination challenges.

Some alarmists declare that we need to drastically reduce energy use on a global scale, undermining the global economy.

On a global scale, we are living in daily risk of terrorist attacks.

Global tasks such as poverty reduction and the preservation of our natural environment must be addressed on a global scale, and that means that there is also need for financial instruments on a comparable scale.

HONG KONG During three decades of favorable global economic conditions, China created an integrated global production system unprecedented in scale and complexity.

In other words, balanced global economic growth required war, colonization, and large scale drug trafficking.

Global responsibility to assist developing nations goes far beyond the MDGs in both time and scale.

After five years of global financial sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin.

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale.

The assets freeze is perhaps the most implemented of the sanctions on a global scale, and it may constitute the most effective mechanism to prevent large scale terrorist operations.

On a global scale, the renewable energy sector created 2.3 million jobs in the past few years.

We believe the best way to support these emerging voices on a global scale is to listen.

They often revolve around spies who are involved in investigating various events, often on a global scale.

The breakthrough in information technology gives us a unique opportunity to promote it on a global scale.

Yet other advances of the rule of law in nuclear disarmament will require cooperation on a global scale.

Second, the externality is truly global in scale, because greenhouse gases travel around the world in a few days.

Peace, development and the protection of human rights on a global scale were the fundamental aspirations of its founders.

Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble.

Fortunately, if we plan for the long term on a global scale, we can find our way through these challenges.

While the global and regional interplay of these factors is complex, it is possible to understand it at the local scale.

So, long before the industrial age we've been affecting the planet on a global scale, with just a small amount of technology.

In Europe, clusters of SMEs appear able to achieve economies of scale and scope, and thus to succeed collectively in global markets.

Furthermore, strong international financial partners are indispensable to multinational corporations, which often need global cash management or support for large scale transactions.

Technology has enabled faster, more efficient just in time delivery, taking full advantage of specialization and knowledge sharing on a global scale.

2. A clear commitment to the global pricing of carbon that allows businesses to invest with confidence and at the scale required.

Unless we do something to prevent it, over the next 40 years we re facing an epidemic of neurologic diseases on a global scale.

To be effective, any tax on financial transactions would have to be implemented on a global scale, which currently does not seem realistic.

The seed vault is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large scale regional or global crises.

During WFP's Global Meeting in Dublin in June 2004, the essential role of partnerships in addressing the scale of today's problems was stressed.

Partnerships ranged from small scale development projects with a limited number of local actors to global initiatives with large numbers of major participants.

In this crucial process, our highest priority should be our collective commitment to ensure sustainable social and economic development on a global scale.

We need to cut the spigot of single use and disposable plastics, which are entering the marine environment every day on a global scale.

Second, if it s difficult to forge consensus within one country on how best to promote growth, imagine the same argument on a global scale.

Moreover, US schools, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, continue to slip down the global scale, constraining Americans ability to benefit from globalization.

Yes, we have preserved peace on the global scale, there has been no new world war, and to that extent we have been successful.

Since its inception in 1915, WILPF has worked to prevent armed conflicts and to establish the conditions for sustainable peace on a global scale.

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After five years of global financial sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin. As Eduardo Porter of The New York Times put it,

Given their size and relative isolation, they are unable to achieve economies of scale or enter national and global value chains driven by large transnational corporations.

Modelling tools. There also continues to be a great deal of progress in developing advanced atmospheric modelling tools, ranging from the local to the global scale.

Tourism is a significant economic and social force in the world, whose current scale and likely future growth have serious implications for local and global environments.

Rapid global demand for electricity, increasing uncertainty in supply and prices of oil and natural gas, and concerns about the greenhouse gas emissions have opened more prospects for the new development of nuclear energy at the global scale.

CAMBRIDGE When the next full scale global financial crisis hits, let it not be said that the International Monetary Fund never took a stab at forestalling it.