That is still far below the replacement rate of 2.1, but higher fertility, together with successful measures to reduce male mortality, has slowed the pace of population shrinkage.

Despite this massive shrinkage, the reality on the ground is unchanged.

The good news from Cushing's disease is that hippocampal shrinkage and memory impairment is at least partially reversible over several years after correction of the excess cortisol.

The International Monetary Fund s latest forecast predicts that the world s advanced economies will contract 0.3 in 2009 the first such shrinkage since the end of World War II.

The root cause of all these developments is Europe s population shrinkage. The demographic time bomb that economic analysts have been discussing for a decade or more is now exploding.

VIENNA The rapid shrinkage of Arctic ice cover is one of the most dramatic changes in nature currently occurring anywhere on the planet, with profound environmental and economic implications.

As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable distribution among conflicting needs.

Isn t it possible, then, that rather than causing a Great Depression, significant shrinkage of the financial sector, particularly if facilitated by an improved regulatory structure, might actually enhance efficiency and growth?

The sub prime mortgage loan problem triggered a drop in some financial institutions key lines of business, particularly their opaque but extremely profitable derivatives businesses. Some shrinkage of the industry is inevitable.

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

ABR Available bit rate a minimum guaranteed rate is specified.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Daily rate

Spending rate

Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7 the male literacy rate is 99.2 and female literacy rate is 98.3 .

Table 1.6 Total birth rate and population growth rate in Viet Nam ( )

In the United States, this interest rate is the federal funds rate in the United Kingdom, it is the official bank rate.

But when prices are falling, the real interest rate exceeds the nominal rate.

If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting. This is what I fear is happening now.

In addition to the money tied up by acquiring inventory, inventory also brings associated costs for warehouse space, for utilities, and for insurance to cover staff to handle and protect it from fire and other disasters, obsolescence, shrinkage (theft and errors), and others.

Exchange Rate Disorder

Currency exchange rate

Maternal mortality rate

Currency exchange rate

Exchange rate fluctuation

neonatal mortality rate

Vacancy rate analysis

(f) Exchange rate

And America s incarceration rate is 10 times Sweden s rate of 70 people per 100,000.

People with fixed rate mortgages are also vulnerable to rate increases, though less directly.

CBR Constant bit rate a Peak Cell Rate (PCR) is specified, which is constant.

At 6.5 , the one year lending rate is now 0.3 above August s headline inflation rate.

A country s overall consumption rate is, of course, the flip side of its savings rate.

An economy s current account is the difference between its investment rate and its savings rate.

ESC compares the steering wheel angle to vehicle turning rate using a yaw rate sensor.

What's the airmail rate?

America s Interest Rate Puzzle

China s Exchange Rate Puzzle

Consider the exchange rate.

China s Interest Rate Challenge

Table 4.3 Enrollment rate

Unemployment rate was 10 .

The second adverse effect of deflation is to raise the real interest rate, that is, the difference between the nominal interest rate and the rate of inflation.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.