Ms. Šimonović expressed concern at the high overall illiteracy rate and asked what steps were being taken to reduce the rate.

But I knew that there were examples of creatures, also mammals, that do reduce their metabolic rate such as ground squirrels and bears, they reduce their metabolic rate in the wintertime when they hibernate.

For surplus countries that want to accumulate reserves, it would reduce exchange rate risk.

Target 5 Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under five mortality rate

Midwives, trained traditional birth attendants and staff nurses have helped to significantly reduce the maternal mortality rate.

The goal is to reduce 15 of the mortality rate of pregnant women and newborns by 2007.

The claim that exchange rate appreciation will reduce a country s trade surplus is false, because, in globally integrated economies, domestic investment falls when the exchange rate appreciates.

A higher exchange rate would reduce their current account surpluses, because they are unable or unwilling to reduce their savings and sustain growth through higher spending on domestic consumption.

A drop of one percentage point in China s investment rate is estimated to reduce Taiwan s GDP growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and Korea s by 0.6 percentage points.

Slower population growth and a demographically driven decline in the labor force participation rate will reduce employment growth.

The fourth Millennium Development Goal is to reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five .

Government efforts to eliminate female illiteracy and to reduce the school dropout rate have had some notable successes.

To reduce the infant mortality rate from 132 per thousand to 70 per thousand by the year 2010.

To reduce the maternal mortality rate from 6.6 per thousand to 3.5 per thousand by the year 2010.

The most important task for China is to reduce the saving rate, which equaled 52 of GDP in 2009.

We aimed, for example, to halve the proportion of people living on less than 1 a day to achieve decent employment for women, men, and young people to reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate and to reduce by two thirds the under five mortality rate.

The second reason why China s political leaders might favor a stronger renminbi is to reduce China s own domestic inflation rate.

One sure way to reduce the savings rate in China would be to develop an American style mortgage market there.

But each percentage point reduction in the corporate tax rate would reduce federal revenues by about 12 billion per year.

Their net effect will be to raise consumption as a share of GDP and to reduce the national saving rate.

The overall objective is to reduce the general mortality rate by 40 per cent by 2010, to 21 per thousand.

Comment by the Administration. Efforts to reduce the vacancy rate are and should be ongoing without any particular time breaks.

With that strategy, we aim, by 2009, to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent and to cut the poverty rate by half, to 8.1 percent.

Mitigation attempts to reduce these flows and thus reduce the rate of increase of the stock of carbon in the atmosphere, with the ultimate goal of stabilizing or reducing it to safe levels.

On the contrary, positive expected inflation would reduce the real (inflation adjusted) interest rate not a bad thing under current conditions.

Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Johannesburg commitment to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010

A sustainable economic growth rate that helps reduce poverty and inequality can be achieved only with a skilled and innovative labor force.

It is argued across the continent that a more flexible exchange rate for the Yuan will reduce China s unfair advantage in international markets.

Even more significant, shifting income from state owned enterprises to middle class workers and increasing consumer spending will reduce China s enormous saving rate.

Although economic growth has reduced South Asia s poverty rate, it has not fallen fast enough to reduce the total number of poor people.

However, in the five remaining months of the period, the Office of the Prosecutor made great strides to further reduce the vacancy rate.

If appreciation does not reduce the current account surplus and capital inflows, then the renminbi s exchange rate is bound to face further upward pressure.

Information on how much contraceptive information was provided to adolescents to reduce teen pregnancy and on the rate of illegal abortions would be welcome.

With this campaign the Ministry of Health expects to reduce the rate of HIV infection close to zero and eliminate congenital Syphilis by 2007.

Even at a late stage of the disease, it can reduce the rate of worsening lung function and delay the onset of disability and death.

In that regard, he welcomed the resolve of the international community to fulfil its commitments to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

China has adopted some policies to reduce its trade surplus, such as lowering import tariffs, withdrawing tax rebates for exported goods, and gradual exchange rate appreciation.

Foreign investors might therefore fear that future US administrations will be tempted to reduce the real value of that debt by allowing a higher inflation rate.

Fifth, the higher the unemployment rate goes, the wider budget deficits will become, as automatic stabilizers reduce revenue and increase spending (for example, on unemployment benefits).

Today, according to the most recent data, we have managed to reduce the total poverty rate from 46.4 per cent in 2002 to 39.2 per cent.

Due to the imposition of a recruitment freeze in the first seven months of the period under review, plans to reduce the vacancy rate were frustrated.

We have, from the time we are slapped on the butt until we take our last dying breath that's when we're newborn to when we're dead we cannot reduce our metabolic rate below what's called a standard, or basal metabolic rate.

Now, however, closer economic integration means that sluggish growth in China and India will reduce job opportunities and slow the rate of poverty reduction throughout the region.

While it was gratifying to note that the collection rate of assessed contributions had improved considerably, efforts to reduce the level of outstanding contributions should be continued.

Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.