The development dilemma being faced in the CARICOM region in particular can be summarized in critical development gaps, such as the human development gap, the technology gap and the trade and terms of trade gaps.

The trade deficit. Yes, the US runs a massive trade deficit with China around 295 billion in 2011, or fully 40 of America s total merchandise trade gap of 738 billion.

Furthermore, the saving gap and the trade balance interact with each other constantly, making them always equal.

The expected December trade deficit is 57 billion an improvement on the record 60.3 billion gap in November.

Kerry's remaining competitor, John Edwards, talks about how the gap on trade between him and Kerry is wide and deep with Kerry on the free trade side.

By definition, without a change in the saving gap, there will be no change in the trade surplus, and vice versa.

But, even if that could be achieved, it would close the trade gap only for as long as Greek prices remained competitive.

Unexpected yen appreciation could cause large carry trade exchange rate losses, as could unexpected closing of the interest rate gap with Japan.

Because the biggest share of the US trade gap is with China, a country vilified as a currency manipulating cheater, the bilateral trade deficit has become the lightening rod for China bashers.

Eliminating or reducing this trade gap without depressing economic activity and employment in Greece requires that the country export more and import less.

There is a glaring gap in overall international development policymaking, and in the capacity to secure coherence across the development, finance, trade and technology areas.

For centuries the Homs Gap has been a favorite trade and invasion route from the coast to the country's interior and to other parts of Asia.

Asia s Leadership Gap

Mind the Gap

The issue of the cost of trade facilitation measures was raised several times, and fears were expressed that the gap between LDCs and developed countries would increase because of the lack of available financial resources to implement trade facilitation measures.

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

For the alien race in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle, see Amnion (Gap Cycle).

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The gap filling role

Then the gap is divided by the shrink factor again, the list is sorted with this new gap, and the process repeats until the gap is 1.

It provoked the missile gap.

This huge gap spurs migration.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is not only the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

If the cleft extends into the maxillary alveolar ridge, the gap is usually corrected by filling the gap with bone tissue.

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap.

The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

However, there is a large financing gap.

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

If that trade gap persists, Greece will have to borrow the full amount from foreign lenders every year in the future, even if the post default budget deficits could be financed by borrowing at home.

But the digital divide is no immutable gap.

The gender gap in schooling remains a concern.

The G 20 should fill that gap urgently.

The gap between the two camps is vast.

The IMF can help to fill the gap.

The adjusted pay gap cannot be fully explained.

However, that is only a stop gap measure.

The gap between Shanghai and the United Kingdom and the United States is as big as the gap between the U.K. and the U.S.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

It is time to bridge the gap between them.

Yet if we look closer this gap becomes illusory.

The gap between US rhetoric and policies has widened.