Senegalese Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye has cited high interest rates as a major impediment to GDP growth.

Environmental degradation in Asia not only harms its population s health, but will become an impediment to growth.

They however expressed their concern that debt constituted a major impediment to sustained growth in the severely indebted countries.

but the impediment of war.

(c) It may be an impediment to electronic commerce.

The 2005 World Summit Outcome stressed the need to find a timely, effective, comprehensive and durable solution to developing countries' debt problems, which were a major impediment to sustainable growth.

One frequent practical impediment to international trade relates to the multiplicity

Their disabilities were an impediment to social and economic participation.

Excruciating external indebtedness remains a major impediment to our development.

And remove the impediment from my speech ,

...or because they have a hearing impediment...

I declare the existence of an impediment.

However, in countries that were short of human capital and lacked the capacity to replace the loss of their most qualified workers, such outflows were a major impediment to economic growth.

These problems constituted an impediment to more rapid and even progress.

But the size of the welfare state and the erosion of incentives to work, save, and invest, owing to high taxes and bloated transfer payments is a major impediment to faster income growth.

Another impediment is the dominance of large banks.

Where she was born should not be an impediment to her prospects.

That energy shortage in developing countries is a basic impediment to development.

The non extradition of nationals remains an important legal impediment to extradition.

Conflict was indeed a great impediment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

This situation is a major impediment to improving international development cooperation activities.

Despite claims to the contrary, United States laws are the main impediment.

The mismatch between the time horizon of available funding and that of investors and entrepreneurs, particularly those in developing economies, is a source of vulnerability that acts as an impediment to growth.

Which then of these reasons remains as an impediment?

This cruel threat is a dreadful impediment to the return of the refugees.

The external indebtedness of developing countries poses the biggest impediment to their development.

The excruciating external indebtedness, inter alia, remains a major impediment to our development.

I have a psychological impediment. He did a swell job.

Russia argued that America s insistence on Assad s immediate departure was an impediment to peace.

It was generally agreed that this decision created an impediment to inter agency mobility.

The second is the elimination of child labour, which is a major impediment to education.

One particular impediment is high seas governance, or the lack thereof.

Another major impediment for SMEs is difficulty in finding a suitable partner.

Is there some serious impediment that prevents you from taking your vows?

Second, given the importance of resolving the debt issue which has been a major impediment to the economic growth of many developing countries, we fully support the proposal for debt write off, especially for the least developed countries.

Failed states, it was now acknowledged, were no less an impediment to development than were overbearing states.

The cultivation of illicit drug crops remains a serious impediment to the sustainable development of some countries.

The Chief Minister also said that the situation in Haiti was another impediment to the repatriation scheme.

(c) Impediment of free movement of UNPROFOR and protected humanitarian convoys under protection.

The biggest impediment to such an education are the mass media, with its tendency to cultivate superficiality and amusement.

The world needs strong voices advocating for internet users right to express themselves and to access information without impediment.

Fear of violence is a serious impediment to women's participation in all forms of social and economic life.

Lack or inaccuracy of reporting is a key impediment to assessing the extent and nature of the problem.

In some areas, the lack of security is still an impediment to effective humanitarian assistance and project implementation.

It also represents a serious impediment to the conduct of effective investigations in Darfur by national judicial bodies.