One reason is that Africa s recent growth rates, while high by international standards, remain too low to have a substantial impact on poverty.

Low cost credit is unlikely to have a significant impact on consumption in the short run, but it can produce asset inflation and misallocations.

The low social stature of a woman inhibits her abilities to truly impact her community in astonishing ways.

The report indicates that the NCB initiative has had a positive impact on low income families with children

The most obvious and dangerous consequence of low interest rates in the major industrial countries is their impact on commodity prices, which is especially pronounced for food and fuel.

Aggressive expansion of proven low cost, high impact micro irrigation techniques would do more to help small scale farmers.

Initial conditions are so low that only high and sustained growth levels may have a noticeable impact on poverty reduction.

There is not a single business anywhere in the world that has not felt China s impact, either as a low cost supplier, or more threateningly, as a formidable competitor.

Events with very low probability but high impact so called tail risks have also been at the heart of the financial crisis.

Is Low Wage China Disappearing?

If it is below, the pilot is too low, and if the lights are red, the pilot is very low.

But there are consequences to abjuring this approach as well. Low cost credit is unlikely to have a significant impact on consumption in the short run, but it can produce asset inflation and misallocations.

The system wide impact of national shocks is less severe when cross border debt is low. A bank default in any one country would no longer trigger a crisis elsewhere, because any losses would stop at the border.

So we're actually leveraging that work to develop games for patients with low vision, and to have an impact on retraining their brain to see better.

Why Is US Inflation So Low?

The low carbon revolution is next.

Illiteracy is very low in Aruba.

The rise in commodity prices since mid 2010 China s commodity price index has increased by more than 100 since its 2009 low has had an important impact.

Worse still, that figure, even if accurate, tells you nothing about the charity s impact. The pressure to keep administrative expenses low can make an organization less effective.

He was responsible for a crew of five astronauts and helped to run dozens of scientific experiments dealing with the impact of low gravity on human biology.

In an environment of ultra low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.

It is (now) no secret that they have operated so far as large sophisticated compensation schemes, masking probabilities of low risk, high impact Black Swan events and benefiting from the free backstop of implicit public guarantees.

(c) Ensuring that impact is measurable

Their impact is already being felt.

But it does not have to maintain ultra low interest rates after the crisis has passed, especially if those rates have little impact on generating sustainable economic activity.

A Regulatory Impact Analysis or Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is a document created before a new government regulation is introduced.

So, if inflation is low and stable, central banks cannot be blamed for low long term rates.

Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Surely, today s low volatility is partly cyclical.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

The virtue of such a framework is to take into account the impact of temporarily weaker output on fiscal outcomes. Thus, a deficit is acceptable when it results from abnormally low tax revenues, but not when revenues are at their normal level.

The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low magnitude of Japan s direct impact on the broader global economy. The more meaningful message is how these shocks box the rest of us into an even tighter corner.

Much impact is lost with added length.

While progress has been encouraging, greater efforts are still needed, including in countries with low prevalence, to establish baselines and improve understanding of the impact of HIV AIDS on children.

Is there really a scalable, low carbon alternative?

Low level radiation is a really subtle issue.

Its concentration in serum is normally very low.

Glancing through the program priorities of major international organizations, the low priority of pollution is startling, given its impact. The likely reason for this is a lack of awareness, as well as not knowing where to begin to address this complex set of problems.

NEW YORK Despite the series of low probability, high impact events that have hit the global economy in 2011, financial markets continued to rise happily until a month or so ago.

Moreover, the potential impact certainly is not linear.

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

Outside efforts can help reduce poverty, but it is, ultimately, the efforts of low income countries themselves to sustain strong economic performance, improve governance, and develop stable and effective institutions that will have the most important impact on reducing poverty.

Additional Compact impact reimbursement is authorized if impact costs rise above the mandatory appropriation of 30 million per year.

Moreover, the share of trade taxes is typically low.

National security is treated as a low grade issue.