The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

First, the burden of economic dislocation was borne unequally.

More important, the economic burden of TB has been put as high as 20 billion annually and even higher if the losses in human capital are included.

A lower debt burden would certainly help Japan deal with its economic slowdown.

If uncontrolled, malaria will continue to be a major economic burden on African economies.

A related issue is burden sharing among high and upper middle income countries contributions remain inequitable.

In the ten years before the MDGs, economic growth in the region was slow, the poverty rate was high (and rising), and there was an increasingly heavy disease burden, including HIV AIDS and malaria.

The timely relief of this burden could save those countries from declining into economic chaos.

The burden of existing debts is high, and investors key goal is loss avoidance, not profit seeking.

There is evidence that countries with high growth in services also tend to have high overall economic growth conversely, countries with high overall economic growth have high services growth.

Burden sharing is a sensitive issue, for both NATO and the international community, and passions sometimes run high.

Instead of talking about economic equality, we will now talk about equal sharing of the burden .

This explains high economic growth rates.

There are also middle income, high debt developing countries that need a reprieve from the debt burden they face.

An improved system could help alleviate the burden imposed on innocent victims of the financial and economic downturn.

Private leverage levels, as much as the public debt burden, must therefore be treated as crucial economic variables.

High energy prices are a boon to Russia s economy, but, as is often the case in the Middle East and other oil and gas rich regions, they can be a burden as well, feeding corruption and discouraging real economic activity.

I hope the conference will help build momentum for greater international burden sharing for Iraq's political and economic reconstruction.

In consequence of this, social and economic development is increasingly challenging for a developing nation shouldering a debt burden out of all proportion to our economic capacities.

This enables continued economic growth with high oil prices.

Worse still, high levels of public debt, like high taxes, cause serious problems for economic performance.

High unit labor costs and unemployment rates are responsible, in turn, for reducing the trend rate of economic growth, mainly owing to under utilized labor, while the combination of lackluster growth and an ever mounting welfare burden has resulted in chronic budget deficits.

The Strategic Economic Dialogue sidestepped this disagreement on burden sharing and focused instead on what the two countries have in common.

With a smaller debt burden and interest payments, Egypt s fiscal position would improve significantly, and threats to economic growth would recede.

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

The second threat to economic recovery is high oil prices.

But if market nervousness persists and interest rates remain high relative to rates for secure German debt, the debt burden will rapidly become unsustainable.

However, while the HIPC initiative has removed the debt overhang for many countries, the burden of debt service payments remains high (see table 1).

Road traffic accidents have generated enormous economic cost and placed a heavy burden on national health services, particularly those of developing countries.

That no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another

That no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another

Consider the average economic position of the members of each caste in this sample. Generally, most high ranking castes occupied high economic positions, and the majority of the untouchable castes were confined to the lowest economic positions.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.

China s Burden

The situation was most glaring in asylum countries, particularly developing countries, which assumed a heavy burden by receiving high numbers of refugees and asylum seekers.

It is possible, Ramey argues, that their results could reflect a different sort of reverse causality if governments are more likely to respond to high public debt levels with austerity programs when they have reason to believe that economic conditions could make the debt burden especially worrisome.

Increasing the tax burden seems almost a natural part of such a mindset, as does ignorance of the need for increased economic competition.

That no bearer of a burden shall bear the burden of another ,

That no bearer of a burden shall bear the burden of another ,

Like all Iranians, younger voters are focused on economic issues, particularly the difficult combination of high inflation and high unemployment.

With the American consumer likely to remain on ice, the same 30 must also continue to shoulder the burden of a sluggish economic recovery.

(d) Debt burden

Carrying the burden

A free society requires a high degree of trust to reduce the burden of monitoring and control, and trust requires internalized standards of honor, truthfulness, and fairness.

With economic recovery in 1997 and high demand for workers, the situation changed.