After decades of rapid expansion, China has become the workshop of the global economy.

And governments, which typically focus on crude measures of economic performance, encourage rapid urbanization.

These proportions will rise even higher as emerging market countries urbanize rapidly.

After several years of rapid expansion in the mid 2000s, the banking industry collapsed in 2008.

More stable financing channels and stronger enforcement of operating standards are essential to support rapid urbanization.

The rapid expansion of the United Nations NGO Informal Regional Network (UN NGO IRENE) had reinforced this partnership.

Yet rapid urbanization everywhere in Africa has given rise to a dynamic informal sector unconnected to the modern economy.

a macroeconomic shift to a higher level of household income and consumption and a more rapid expansion of the middle class

While no single model for managing rapid urbanization exists, positive examples offer some guidance.

Having decided to expand the record business to include film equipment, Charles Pathé oversaw a rapid expansion of the company.

More generally, the rapid expansion of credit risks increasing inflationary pressure and fueling the formation of asset bubbles.

Both developed and developing countries caught up in rapid economic expansion and technological development got distracted.

Kibera is just one example of the consequences of the rapid urbanization that is gaining momentum worldwide.

That rapid expansion, together with the sophistication that the United Nations has acquired over the years, calls for an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses with a view to making it more effective.

Parmalat was a family firm trying to be a post modern firm, and which simply cheated on the way as it tried to expand fast.

As the naval prowess of the European powers increased, they confronted Ottoman expansion in the region when the Battle of Lepanto checked the power of the Ottoman Navy.

The rapid expansion of humankind to North America and Oceania took place at the climax of the most recent Ice Age, when temperate regions of today were extremely inhospitable.

Rapid economic and demographic expansion has already turned adequate access to potable water into a major issue across large parts of the world.

The city was undergoing rapid economic expansion at the time, with its population growing by 70 percent between 1870 and 1917.

2001 2008 planning for the Olympics In the summer of 2001, the city won the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics and accelerated plans to expand the subway.

UNICEF will support the rapid expansion of internal audit coverage of headquarters divisions, including in the area of information technology.

Japan needs to develop well balanced defense forces with the capacity needed to respond to new threats, such as the rapid build up of China s navy, especially its submarine forces.

He underlined the joint action undertaken by the UNAIDS family, in line with United Nations reform, to support a rapid scale up of the AIDS response.

Indeed, the rapid expansion of bank credit needed to finance skyrocketing government led investment is increasing the amount of liquidity in China s financial system.

The movement of the rural poor to large cities is one of the exemplary narratives of the modern era. And governments, which typically focus on crude measures of economic performance, encourage rapid urbanization.

The overall increase in the number of facilities designated as baby friendly was about 3 per cent in 2004, following rapid expansion from 1994 to 2001.

In paragraph 306, the Board recommended that UNICEF support the rapid expansion of the coverage of the Office of Internal Audit of all headquarters areas, including information technology.

There is good reason to believe that China s new leaders are now determined to wean the economy off ever mounting (and destabilizing) debt especially in its rapidly expanding shadow banking system.

In response to the scarcity of water resources, several African countries, particularly those situated in arid and semi arid zones, have drawn up strategies for the preservation of underground water, which is in heavy demand as a result of rapid urbanization and the expansion of farming.

But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.

Mission expansion

a National General Service staff.

C. Training

The variance of 7,299,100 is due mainly to the proposed increase of the national staffing establishment by 591 posts, including 17 additional national officer posts, from 1,355 to 1,946, in support of the Mission expansion.

Management additional inputs and outputs

With a population of 12 million and 39 of the land in the city vacant due to rapid expansion of the 1960s 80s Bangkok is a test bed for urban gardens centered on community involvement.

It was the time of rapid expansion of the Vikings in Northern Europe England began to pay Danegeld in 859, and the Curonians of Grobin faced an invasion by the Swedes at about the same date.

Rapid expansion in cross border capital flows, continued financial innovation, and deepening financial markets pose increasing challenges not only for national policy makers, but also for international financial institutions.

It can reinvigorate the spirit of earlier enlargement rounds, or it can succumb to enlargement fatigue.

But, to be successful, a green new deal will have to address some enormous challenges in the developing world, where the impact of global warming will be felt first and hardest, and where rapid growth requires massive expansion of cheap energy.

In 2011, for example, the BRSA adopted a loan to value regulation on mortgages in order to limit rapid credit expansion stemming from growth in consumer loans.

4. Expanded immunization coverage for children

The first issue concerns the continuation of enlargement.

With this expansion have come problems.

India, too, has massive potential to grow fast and reap a demographic dividend, but it has been struggling with structural reform. We expect that India s expansion will slow to 5.6 in 2012, from 6.5 last year.