The past few years have seen dramatic growth worldwide in the number of such agreements.

Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.

While economic growth benefited from the dramatic growth in oil and gas prices during the last decade, other competitive industries have yet to emerge, and the country now faces the prospect of declining energy prices.

We know from history that waves of innovation, from the steam engine to the information and communications revolution, have led to dramatic increases in economic growth.

The growth in construction was reflected in dramatic growth in the real estate industry, with the real estate market recording an annual sales volume of 245 million, representing a 68 per cent increase over 2003 sales.28

The Kremlin s political battle to win control of Russia s energy sector has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the growth rate of domestic oil and gas production.

The dramatic improvement in demand in 2002 2004 did of course provide an incentive to add capacity, particularly in countries where continued strong demand growth was foreseen.

Rapid population growth, a dramatic increase in water consumption due to industrial, agricultural, and tourism growth, and rising standards of living will make the water issue even more important to the region s political stability than it is already.

We have distorted that history by thinking of bubbles as a period of dramatic price growth, followed by a sudden turning point and a major and definitive crash.

As we meet here today, the dramatic increase in oil prices is threatening to roll back growth possibilities in many African nations, worsening their internal and external imbalances.

The failure has been dramatic.

China s shift has been dramatic.

Parlous conditions required dramatic measures.

Thus, nothing dramatic will happen to the RMB exchange rate in the near term unless something dramatic happens.

The micro story is more dramatic.

Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates.

The post war baby boom generation drove a period of sustained economic growth that strengthened Europe s standing in the world and led to dramatic improvements in its citizens quality of life.

More compelling is the dramatic upturn in GDP growth rates in India and China after they turned strongly towards dismantling trade barriers in the late 1980 s and early 1990 s.

The macro story is simple, but dramatic.

McNamara s turnabout on this issue was dramatic.

Figures for FDI were even more dramatic.

There had been a dramatic and welcome growth in regional peacekeeping which reflected the global demand for peacekeeping and testified to the commitment of Member States to the multilateral management of peace.

There are even more dramatic increases in Tokyo.

Indeed, demographically, Russia is undergoing a dramatic decline.

Nowadays this idea has a dramatic name Spaceship Earth.

The result was a dramatic decline in CO2 emissions.

The impact on our humanitarian operations has been dramatic.

In such dramatic situations, US power is at its greatest.

This has dramatic consequences for liberal democracy and open societies.

It has been a dramatic few weeks in Egyptian politics.

Israeli politics is undergoing its most dramatic changes in 30 years.

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

But the most dramatic part of the book concerns Mubarak himself.

Netizens are closely following the news flood of this dramatic development.

The result was a dramatic decline in America s soft or attractive power.

The impact of the Fed s policy and hot money has been dramatic.

A second challenge for Japan is the dramatic rise of China s economy.

The fatal divergences that are most frequently cited include differences in growth rates, job creation, and unemployment rates, as well as dramatic disparities in current account balances, all of which may be traceable to wide deviations in unit labor costs.

The next ten years could witness a dramatic transformation of education in India.

The result has been a dramatic increase in anti Americanism in Turkish politics.

The war in the 1990s caused a dramatic change in the Bosnian economy.

March 2003 saw a dramatic increase in the number of mothers attending playgroup.

There are no dramatic changes in the percentages when compared to previous figures.

There are no dramatic changes in the percentages when compared to previous figures.

The Secretary General's report cites dramatic figures concerning the victims of natural disasters.