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

The warfare caused negative impact on economic growth, especially the large scale Tet Offensive in 1968.

Planning in anticipation of urban growth could warrant investment in large scale sanitation and sewerage systems.

Fisheries, including artisanal, or small scale fisheries, contribute significantly to poverty alleviation, food security and economic growth.

And, at least until a certain stage of growth, economies of scale and scope beckon, with expansion abroad often the only way to increase size, given already saturated domestic markets.

In turn, this can spur sustainable non farm employment growth in services, agro processing, and small scale manufacturing.

In March, container traffic at China s above scale ports was 15.29 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units), with month on month growth 1.7 percentage points slower than in the previous two months.

Moreover, it is impossible to understand or manage a system s resilience at only one scale. At least three must be included the focal scale and at least one below and one above for cross scale connections most often determine a system s longer term resilience.

3. individually and through enterprises (at a very small scale).

The programme is aimed at promoting the transformation and diversification of micro and small scale enterprises to growth oriented activities, and at increasing the productive capacities of women and rural people to enable them to participate effectively in the national economies.

After three decades of growth on a scale unprecedented in human history, China s new leaders are facing a historical turning point.

Expressing concern at the continuing large scale existence of these practices,

First, inequality has grown at both ends of the income scale.

Salary scale for staff in the General Service category at Headquarters

Salary scale for staff in the Security Service category at Headquarters

The growth model on which both advanced and developing countries relied in the past will not work at two or three times the scale. Climate, ecology, food, water, energy, and livability will not withstand the pressure.

Now, we actually play through many generations here, at the cellular scale.

Context reveals something at the low end of the scale as well.

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

Salary scale for staff in the Trades and Crafts category at Headquarters

Women's football became popular on a large scale at the time of the First World War, when employment in heavy industry spurred the growth of the game, much as it had done for men fifty years earlier.

The Committee had looked at the pattern of major scale to scale changes in Member States' recent rates of assessment and had concluded that changes in scale methodology were a significant factor in many cases.

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.

Germany and the ECB are relying on large scale liquidity to buy time to allow the adjustments necessary to restore growth and debt sustainability.

Recovery will also require re establishing at least a small scale manufacturing sector.

This makes them at least as fast as fish, on a relative scale.

At the upper end of the social and economic scale, a different issue arises.

The scale of education continued to be extended at almost all levels and disciplines.

A vibrant rural sector can generate demand for locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating sustainable employment growth in agro processing, services, and small scale manufacturing.

These can greatly enhance their productivity and growth potential if they network with other firms to address common problems and achieve economies of scale and scope.

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.

No alternative form of energy is efficient enough to compete with fossil fuels at scale.

However this effect is negligible at the scale of accuracy that applies to a planetarium.

The technology is well understood and is currently used in other industrial applications, although not at the same scale as might be required in a commercial scale power station.

Although high growth requires large scale capital formation, the relation between investment in real capital assets and human capital in China seems to be out of proportion.

2009 will be a tough year. Yet, absent a large scale conflagration, there is a fair chance that 2010 will see a restoration of weak growth in the US, Europe, and Japan, and probably robust growth in most emerging markets.

Scale

Scale

In order for a system to remain resilient at one scale, parts of it at other scales may have to transform.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 .

Given that it is in local governments interest to maintain high economic growth rates, many are borrowing to fund large scale investment in real estate and infrastructure projects.

Metropolitan governance is therefore crucial, as smart cities require networks that operate at the metropolitan scale.

At the other end of the demographic scale, the share of the aged is growing explosively.

Brutality at this scale highlighted a reality that many have been turning a blind eye to.

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the same measurement on the Richter scale at 8.0 in magnitude.