However, some wealthier developing countries, notably Chile, did achieve a faster pace of investment and growth based on their natural resource endowments.

As a small group of countries increasingly accounts for the world s remaining oil reserves, their market dominance may threaten the pace of investment.

(Technically, the pace of inventory investment should be included, but this is a cyclical buffer between production and sales rather than a source of final demand.)

The economy experienced a slowdown in 2005, but in 2006 recovered to the fastest pace in six years on the back of increased exports and strong investment.

But, even if Brazil cannot keep growing as fast as China, it still looks likely to race ahead. Investment growth has resumed its pre crisis record pace but, at 19 of GDP, investment remains far too low to support higher sustained growth.

The pace of urbanization is astonishing.

Besides the slow pace of poverty reduction, human development has not kept up with the pace of income growth, either.

Beyond avoidable suffering and death, failure to report research also slows the pace of scientific discovery. It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

The pace of sustainable development is necessarily slow.

That pace of employment growth now appears unsustainable.

The empowerment of women has also gathered pace.

The pace of change, however, must be accelerated.

There is more state and local budget cutting has slowed America s pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country s long term growth trajectory.

The pace and magnitude of assistance that is currently being provided must be stepped up to keep pace with an increasing number of returnees.

The pace of change in the biosciences is phenomenal.

The ECB Picks Up The Pace

We must speed up the pace.

First, the lack of correlation between quantitative easing and GDP growth suggests that the pace of asset buying could be reduced without slowing the pace of growth.

When the high tech boom ended in 2000, the Federal Reserve orchestrated its replacement by the housing boom, while investment in Asia to supply the US market was chugging along at an increasing pace.

Given these advantages, the pace of internationalization has been swift.

Somehow, too, Asia s leaders must manage the pace of globalization.

The pace of fundraising has also accelerated since Houla Massacre.

The pace of change in some areas is quite slow.

China is developing at a dizzying pace.

But what has surprised many observers is the pace of change.

The pace of change might be doubtful, but not its direction.

The pace of job growth reached 10 year highs in 2007.

Thereafter, the population of Spanish Hispaniola grew at a slow pace.

As a result of globalization, the pace of development can be explosive.

The share of manufacturing in India's GDP was increasing at a rapid pace, and a liberal foreign direct investment (FDI) policy and continuous rationalization and lowering of taxes and duties had made India an attractive destination both for domestic and foreign investors.

The economy is growing at a sustainable pace.

Its defense expenditures have an even faster pace.

Obviously, the pace of the verified destruction of declared stockpiles should be accelerated.

The things are coming out at a faster pace.

Infrastructure did not keep pace with the economy s needs.

No economy keeps growing at the same pace forever.

The representative of China expressed concern regarding the slow pace of the Doha round.

At the current pace of recovery, that is more than eight years away.

If that decline continues, it will inevitably reduce the pace of consumer spending.

The nature, size, pace, reversibility and scope of any proposed project or activity

The pace of democratic change in Afghanistan has been remarkable by any standards.

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(c) Effective crime prevention keeping pace with the new developments

It is important that the steady pace of the substantive lines of enquiry be maintained.