And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.

In fact, over the next decade, as China attempts to move up the value chain into services and adjusts to a shrinking workforce, its investment requirements will shrink and its investment rate will fall sharply.

China s Incredible Shrinking Economy

China s Shrinking Trade Surplus

Source Workforce 1999, ESA, 2992, p 73 Workforce 2002, ESA, p 97.

However, his options are shrinking rapidly.

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

Women Participation in the Workforce

Some government programs are shrinking from lack of demand.

At the current moment, economic well being is shrinking.

Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

Distance is shrinking. Geographical barriers no longer provide easy protection.

The ever shrinking old generation of Saudi kings in waiting.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

Promotion and development of a sustainable workforce

Throughout the world, male female differences in HIV prevalence are shrinking.

With a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, tax revenue will contract, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the fiscal position. Various estimates by private sector economists and World Bank officials suggest that the government s accumulated net implicit pension debt could balloon to 75 110 of GDP.

The British economy is contracting. Greece s economy has been shrinking for years.

He'd close down 30 percent of the workforce.

Women represent 46 of the public service workforce.

Source Statistics Netherlands (survey of the workforce) 2001

So shrinking export markets will slow down growth promoting structural change at home.

Much discrimination occurs in the Saudi workforce as well.

Without action, the economy faces the threat of declining consumption and even shrinking output.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

The potential gains from a larger female workforce are striking.

Statistical data on participation of indigenous women in the workforce

Some of the recent rise, associated with the shrinking of glaciers, is not caused by human activities, since the glaciers have been shrinking for hundreds of years while human activities became significant only in the last century.

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan s population is aging and shrinking.

Austerians believe that only balancing government budgets and shrinking national debts will restore investor confidence.

This is one of the reasons for the increase in the age and the non productivity of the workforce, as the younger workforce is oriented to the grey economy.

Unemployment is conservatively estimated at a staggering 40 of the workforce.

Between now and 2050, Europe s workforce will decrease by 70 million.

Only Denmark has a larger public sector (38 of Danish workforce).

The comfort level for perpetrators of these crimes is shrinking as the options for prosecution expand.

It will be very hard for them to return to the workforce.

This focused on several areas including resource allocation, workforce strategy and accountability.

In short, no nation on this changing, shrinking planet can truly address its own problems in isolation.

A shrinking economy makes private and public debt look less sustainable, which does nothing for market confidence.

That is why Japanese policymakers should prioritize drawing more women into the workforce.

Moreover, a new labor law and income policies will further increase workforce costs.

It is still fragmented and does not provide for mobility of its workforce.

But challenges remain visible minority representation in the public service workforce was 7.8 percent in 2004, well below the workforce availability figure of about 10.4 percent for visible minorities based on the 2001 Census.

In any case, the scope for tax increases is severely limited in an economy that is shrinking quickly.