Typically, the productivity gap with the rest of the economy is much wider.

Moreover, they can generate positive externalities for the wider economy, contributing to a vibrant enterprise sector and increased economic activity.

Loans or grants for specific projects are often linked to wider policy changes in the sector or the country's economy as a whole.

Such policies had a profound impact on life in the occupied territories, where the economy had shrunk, leading to higher unemployment and wider poverty.

The differences between President Bush and John Kerry with respect to leadership on the economy are wider than in any other Presidential election in our experience.

What matters is the interconnections that link a particular country, institution, or group of institutions (for example, Lehman Brothers and AIG) to the wider world economy.

Wider involvement

Everyone else has shifted to the view that these financial behemoths have become too large and too complex to manage with massive adverse consequences for the wider economy.

Towards a Wider Europe

And compassion is unleashed in wider and wider circles by signs and stories, never by statistics and strategies.

Overall, however, a thicket of regulations is unnecessary and should be avoided, as the systemic risks that P2P lending poses to the wider economy are small. Instead, regulators should adopt a flexible approach.

America s financial crisis has triggered a severe credit crunch that is making the US recession worse, while the deepening recession is leading to larger losses in financial markets thus undermining the wider economy.

But there is a wider lesson.

The US experience has wider implications.

But now those divides are wider.

Turkey's secular, capitalistic, democratic order has become especially valuable to the Bush administration as it seeks to integrate the wider Middle East into the world system by liberalizing its economy and democratizing its polity.

In most developed countries, land use planning is an important part of social policy, ensuring that land is used efficiently for the benefit of the wider economy and population, as well as to protect the environment.

After the general election of 1984, the newly elected Government appealed for wider powers for the Executive Council, as well as for more aid and investment in the Territory's economy and infrastructure from the United Kingdom.

Conditions across the wider Sahel are similarly worrisome.

Such attacks might trigger a wider regional conflagration.

(g) Taking into account the linkages of the tropical timber trade and the international timber market and wider global economy and the need to take a global perspective in order to improve transparency in the international timber trade

5) Within the wider EU, solidarity threatens to decline.

Wider though still limited access to improved sanitation services.

This necessitates a wider geographical presence throughout the country.

As these examples indicate, however, systemic importance is not just a question of size. What matters is the interconnections that link a particular country, institution, or group of institutions (for example, Lehman Brothers and AIG) to the wider world economy.

A wider breakdown of regional order in the Middle East.

But the popular resentment of Islam goes deeper and wider.

The puzzle of Berlusconi s survival reflects a wider European conundrum.

They welcome measured and respectful US, European, and wider support.

Such extensive civilizations brought peace and stability over wider areas.

(o) Wider access to standard analytical methods and reference materials

The draft article would facilitate wider participation in the convention.

In the south of Yunnan, in Simao and Xishuangbanna Prefectures, the river changes as the valley opens out, the floodplain becomes wider, and the river becomes wider and slower.

We actively seek wider engagement with religious leaders on this issue.

The Wider Europe Initiative is meant to help develop those attributes.

Some of the changes include a wider page and a sidebar.

For others it has had a wider connotation for several decades.

These need to be undertaken or expanded on a wider scale.

But it requires more ambitious and wider public and private sector support.

The profession s dissident voices, it seems, are finally reaching a wider audience.

Wider Europe in the East happens to coincide with Russia's near abroad.

So the lessons learned from the Montreal Protocol may have wider significance.

Dr. Leila explained that it's part of a wider movement to educate.

KUALA LUMPUR Making the financial system accessible to the world s poorest people can unlock their economic potential, improve their lives, and benefit the wider economy. So it is no surprise that financial inclusion of the poor has become an important component of public policymaking.

Containment, it should be recalled, was organized against a Soviet totalitarian regime that was not only ideologically aggressive and in the process of consolidating its colonization of Eastern Europe (as well as Japan s Northern Territories), but also deliberately sealed off from the wider world economy.