These proportions will rise even higher as emerging market countries urbanize rapidly.

Even in the US corporate sector, defaults will rise, owing to sharply higher corporate bond spreads.

Greece s ruling coalition could collapse as well, and political tensions may rise even higher in Spain and Portugal.

Many worry that non food prices may rise higher.

Higher deficits, moreover, would cause the ratio of debt to GDP to rise from its already high level, which implies greater debt service costs and, therefore, even larger deficits.

These figures are even higher today.

If, for example, house prices are routinely described as climbing and climbing, higher and higher, people might naturally assume that that rise is unstoppable.

The stakes could be even higher in Mexico.

The price would rise today because everyone had become convinced that it would rise even further tomorrow.

The rise in consumer spending was not, however, due to higher employment or faster income growth.

New even higher resolution models are currently under development.

The higher interest rates rise to stabilize emerging markets currencies, the more severe their crises will be.

As long as China s commodity demand grows at a higher rate than global supply, prices will rise.

And the higher tax economies did not even have smaller budget deficits than the lower tax US rather, higher taxes merely enabled higher spending.

But the risks of inertia seemed to be even higher.

Any higher rate would cause Greek prices to rise more rapidly than those of its eurozone trading partners.

Although public investment has been on the rise, the country s poor infrastructure remains a barrier to higher growth.

Under normal circumstances, I would oppose this rise in the budget deficit and the higher level of government spending.

A general rise in global demand will simply spill over into higher commodity prices, with little helpful effect on consumption.

The market s reaction was to send Spanish government bond rates even higher.

Even among the untouchables, some castes have higher economic status than others.

In Britain, economic growth is even slower, while inflation is much higher.

Estimates of seabird bycatch may even be much higher for some species.

Ordinarily, a sharp rise in oil prices quickly translates into higher inflation expectations, followed by rising interest rates at all maturities.

The plan calls for a shift to higher real wages so that household income will rise as a share of GDP.

The higher interest rates rise to stabilize emerging markets currencies, the more severe their crises will be. Ultimately, even if emerging economies manage to diversify their funding away from foreign currencies, they will remain hostages to US monetary policy cycles.

Even in the face of smuggling, higher taxes reduce consumption and raise revenue.

But even higher upfront costs are quickly paid for with cheaper utility bills.

Recent World Bank poverty recalculations are expected to raise the number even higher.

As premiums rise, even more relatively healthy individuals will be encouraged to forego insurance until illness strikes, causing average costs and premiums to rise further.

The euro s recent sharp rise has made this competitiveness problem even more severe, reducing growth further and making fiscal imbalances even larger.

Abroad, China s rise has caused admiration, envy, suspicion, and even outright hostility in some corners.

Even today, per capita US emissions are more than four times higher than China s.

Twenty years later, with the stakes even higher, we can no longer afford inaction.

Fear of that strategy could cause investors to demand even higher real interest rates.

The percentage of domestic female workers who allege sexual harassment is even higher (91 ).

This is true even considering that women form the majority of higher level graduates.

But this direct link between higher household saving and a lower dollar will only be forged if higher household saving is not outweighed by a rise in government dis saving, i.e., by a larger government deficit.

Even though the employment rate of men is higher than that of women, the unemployment rate for men is higher (10.2 ) than that of women (9.9 ).

Even from banks narrow standpoint, higher equity requirements would cost less than other proposed regulations.

Political risks in the eurozone s periphery include the collapse of Italy s government and a fresh election as a result of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi s criminal conviction. Greece s ruling coalition could collapse as well, and political tensions may rise even higher in Spain and Portugal.

Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low productivity farm work to higher wage employment in the cities.

The real depreciation necessary to restore external balance would drive the real value of euro debts even higher, making them even more unsustainable.

In 2001, 24 of the senior academic staff financed by the Council for Higher Education were women, a rise from 20 in 1992 93.

However, the number of registered cases in 2003 was higher than in 2001 and previous years, which means that the numbers continue to rise.