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.

The rapid expansion of United Nations operations in the past several years has been both unprecedented and instructive.

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.

Within rapidly expanding cities in developing countries, the demand for land exceeded supply.

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.

The rapid turnover of trained staff, due to low salaries, prevented the expansion of IMCI into the seven targeted governorates.

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.

The expansion should, however, be limited by the need for prompt and effective action as required under Article 24 of the Charter.

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.

Despite repeated brutal attacks against ISF volunteers, recruiting continues to outpace demand, even as the ISF rapidly expands.

In particular, the rapid expansion of peace keeping operations has made it increasingly difficult for this Organization to meet its financial needs promptly.

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.

60. A recent phenomenon is the rapid expansion of the manufacture of a variety of synthetic drugs of abuse in clandestine processing laboratories.

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

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.

B. Urbanization and gender

The expansion took place at its expense ...

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And work fast.

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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.

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

4. Expanded immunization coverage for children

The first issue concerns the continuation of enlargement.