This ratio also compares unfavourably with the financial plan forecast of 45 per cent.

Total contributions in 2004 were also 17 per cent higher than forecast in the financial plan.

Annex III, figures III through V show actual and forecast financial information by source of funds.

Yet no likelihood of inflation can be seen when tracking price indexes or financial market readings of forecast expectations.

NEW HAVEN The widespread failure of economists to forecast the financial crisis that erupted in 2008 has much to do with faulty models.

One development that could change this forecast is if China comes to view investing in US financial assets as a money losing proposition.

Government contributions to regular resources were 3 per cent higher than the financial plan forecast and 9 per cent higher than in 2003.

Table 3 Income Expenditure Forecast 2005

Mr. Nguyen Tat Thanh (Viet Nam) said that the major international financial institutions had forecast a slowing down in the growth rate of the world economy.

The forecast figures refer to 2003 dollars.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

But that is my hope, not my forecast.

It is difficult to make a credible forecast.

But the forecast proved to be far too optimistic.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

The project delivery forecast for 2005 is 641.40 million.

Forecast based on reports up to and including August 2003.

Population change happens slowly, but its effects can be forecast early.

For independent observers, the ministry s grim forecast comes as no surprise.

However, meteograms can be constructed using observed data or forecast data.

In 2004, total expenditures (excluding write offs and reimbursements) amounted to 1,600 million, an increase of 9 per cent over 2003 and 3 per cent less than the financial plan forecast (see table 3).

Excuse me, do you know what is the weather forecast for tomorrow?

There are two possible reasons for the discrepancy between forecast and outcome.

But Iran has been forecast to develop the bomb for 20 years.

PARIS In early November, the Russian government released its latest macroeconomic forecast.

But that forecast assumes continued growth, whereas France is slipping into recession.

The number of unemployed people is forecast to be 65,000 in 2015.

The bullwhip effect is an observed phenomenon in forecast driven distribution channels.

The revised forecast now is 779 million as at 31 December 2005.

Annex III, table 5 also shows the forecast of these contributions separately.

A third piece of the forecast puzzle is the disparity between the behavior of financial markets and that of the real economy. Judged only by asset prices, one would have to conclude that growth is booming.

But enlargement fatigue among the member states continues to muddy this optimistic forecast.

The Ifo Institute has forecast that GDP will contract by 2.2 in 2009.

Government reserves were forecast to stand at 35 million as at March 2005.

There are two possible reasons for the discrepancy between forecast and outcome. Either the damage caused by the financial crisis was more serious than people realized, or the economic medicine prescribed was less efficacious than policymakers believed.

Yet no likelihood of inflation can be seen when tracking price indexes or financial market readings of forecast expectations. And no approaching government debt crisis in the core economies can be seen when tracking government interest rates.

The palu also had an uncanny ability to forecast weather conditions days in advance.

Yet it is almost certainly the sort of forecast of which they should beware.

A typical reaction was to raise the forecast for 2011 from 2.5 to 3.5 .

A week after the ministry s forecast was released, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Russia s largest foreign direct investor followed suit, cutting its growth forecast for Russia to 1.3 in 2013 and 2.5 in 2014.

As Charles de Gaulle forecast, It is not any European statesman who will unite Europe.

What is hardest to forecast, though, are turning points when the old relationships break down.

Increasing resettlement needs have been identified in 2004 but are forecast to decrease in 2005.

Nowadays, the need to forecast emergency situations and for disaster preparedness is becoming increasingly evident.

The ministry s baseline forecast assumes that the price of oil Russia s main export will grow at 9 per year in real terms over the next 17 years, or more than three times the forecast for Russia s annual GDP growth.