The 1990s also saw Venezuela experience a major banking crisis in 1994.

Unlike the Japanese experience, this crisis involved the entire world, rather than being confined to a single country.

Experience has shown that only an acute crisis can force Europe s leaders to act together in a concerted effort.

Japan s experience shows that a recession that results from a financial crisis can be extremely prolonged, because deleveraging is a long process.

A ll the countries hit by financial crisis... experience d a very sharp slowdown, the BIS says of the recent past.

The experience was a lesson for banks, regulators, central banks, and treasuries, which, not surprisingly, were unprepared to handle a comprehensive crisis.

This correlation is hardly surprising, given the massive build up in public debts that countries typically experience after a banking crisis.

When it comes to managing a deep and complex crisis, indeed, European voters tend to prefer the experience of conservative politicians.

And some emerging market economies despite massive IMF support will experience a severe financial crisis with contagious effects on other economies.

In times of crisis, the best guides are theory, which captures the essence of a problem, and the lessons of past experience.

Chirac's stature and experience should have allowed him to rally all of Europe before, during or after the crisis.

The experience was a lesson for banks, regulators, central banks, and treasuries, which, not surprisingly, were unprepared to handle a comprehensive crisis. Their tools and powers were lacking.

And we as citizens, as we go through this experience of the kind of, the crisis of confidence, crisis of competence, crisis of legitimacy, I think there's a temptation to pull back from the world and say, ah, Katrina, Iraq we don't know what we're doing.

In a post crisis world, when people are looking for new ways to ensure their well being, peace, and prosperity, the European experience has a great deal to offer.

But if the US does experience slow growth over the next decade, can it all be blamed on the financial crisis?

This correlation is hardly surprising, given the massive build up in public debts that countries typically experience after a banking crisis. We have certainly seen that this time, with crisis countries debt already having risen by more than 75 since 2007.

And yet there are good reasons to believe that it is just a matter of time before Africa and its peoples experience the ill effects of the global crisis.

Their greater currency flexibility, however, did not prevent the recessionary impact of the Asian and Russian crises of 1997 98, and Colombia did experience a financial crisis in 1999.

In the meantime, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, has warned that the Bulgarian authorities lack experience of dealing with similar situations and have failed in crisis planning.

The key to resolving the eurozone crisis lies in properly structured reforms in the ailing countries. Indeed, experience shows that there is no substitute.

I have a before Barcelona experience and a during Barcelona experience. We'll see what happens next.

The experience of the 1990s suggests that the policy direction launched in many parts of the developing world after the debt crisis, while uprooting previous regimes, failed to establish a flourishing alternative.

The PA could build on the experience of the East Asian and other countries that have succeeded in achieving rapid economic growth against a background of economic and political crisis or conflict.

Through the programme, UNDP is applying an area based development approach, which draws on experience from other parts of the world afflicted by conflict or crisis.

He urged all countries to pay their contributions in full, on time and without conditions, so that the Organization would no longer experience a financial crisis like the one it was currently facing.

And patience, experience and experience, hope

It was a nerve wracking experience.

Japan, is a very interesting experience.

Over the past decade, economics has pulled the US and India closer. It will continue to power the relationship in the future, even as both countries experience a slowdown during the current economic crisis.

Yet, in assessing the Japanese experience and its relevance today, it is important to recognize that Japan s fall to earth was due not only to its financial crisis.

These countries can perhaps learn from the bitter experience of Detroit, which issued 1.4 billion worth of municipal bonds in 2005 to ward off an impending financial crisis.

Something like a service or an experience?

We learned a lot from that experience.

Russia went through a somewhat similar experience.

As usual, it was a bittersweet experience.

PARIS Oscar Wilde said that experience is the name we give to our mistakes. Last year, we tried to analyze the errors that led the world into economic crisis.

In fact, business has always lobbied Congress for favors and tax breaks, and the Lehman Brothers experience proved the foolishness of confusing parables about moral hazard with crisis management.

Round table on Lessons learned from United Nations constitution making experience Timor Leste, Afghanistan and Iraq (organized by the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme)

BERKELEY What once could be dismissed as simply a Greek crisis, or simply a Greek and Irish crisis, is now clearly a eurozone crisis.

Is there a crisis in Moscow? No, there is no crisis.

At its core, the global economic crisis is a growth crisis.

Experience.

Experience

The California experience is a case in point.

Experience can be a harsh, though necessary, teacher.