Note Production refers to crude steel, consumption to finished steel products.

However, this may not occur in the medium term.

This will guarantee sustainability in the medium term.

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The US must move to reduce its budget deficit in the medium term.

Social malaise is deepening as expectations and actual prospects for economic improvement are likely to remain poor for the foreseeable future.

It was also observed that over the medium term, small and medium sized enterprises would tend to be excluded in favour of larger suppliers.

Faced with the trade off between economic growth in the short run and over the medium to long term, these central banks are opting for the latter.

It should periodically review progress towards medium term recovery goals and help to ensure adequate financing.

The national mid term programme of action now drafted in Kyrgyzstan will be closely connected to the Millennium Development Goals.

Relationships with non traditional donors, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, will also be cultivated to build ties for the medium and long term.

In the medium to long term, more effective cooperation between law enforcement agencies will be critical.

Do you realize that you, TED users, spend an average of 52 minutes per day in traffic, wasting your time on your daily commute?

Four elements that member States may wish to consider in their discussions are shaping this context and will continue to be particularly important in the medium term

The Transitional Government has now embarked on medium to long term reconstruction efforts (see S 2005 124, para. 42), and has adopted a strategic framework for the reconstruction of the city for a total cost of 107 million.

Within the U.S. Department of Defense, a medium range missile is defined by having a maximum range of between 1,000 and 3,000 km.

Standard measures depend on the medium and long term outlook for price stability, whereas non standard measures depend on the degree of dysfunction of the monetary policy transmission mechanism.

The UNICEF role in emergencies should increasingly focus on planning, short term response, medium term coordination, and long term support for the transition from an emergency to a development programme.

In 2000, after the Special Session of the UN General Assembly, the medium term emancipation policy document was further developed into a multiyear emancipation policy plan, which focused on the following areas

A general problem is that long term predictions about submarine or underground storage security are very difficult and uncertain, and there is still the risk that might leak into the atmosphere.

Whether the world economy grows now at 4 or 5 matters, but it does not much affect our medium term prospects.

His sometimes controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.

In paragraph 730, the Board recommends that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs develop medium term shelter solutions whenever it identifies a gap between temporary and permanent needs.

But this arrangement is quickly becoming unsustainable. China s far reaching shift to a new growth model implies major structural and macroeconomic changes in the medium and long term.

The aim of developing local capacity to deal with the problem is to provide increased assets in the medium term and ensure a sustainable capacity in the future.

Donor assistance continued to be channelled towards immediate emergency and humanitarian priorities, although towards the end of 2004 attention was increasingly centred on requirements for economic recovery over the medium term.

For example, the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, in Great Britain, was targeting an East Coast landfall for Sandy days ahead of the best American model.

The true challenges facing China lie in the medium and long term. Indeed, the current economic rebound is not an achievement worthy of much celebration, especially if it comes at the expense of further reform and structural adjustment.

Combined, these factors should produce a correction in asset prices that brings them into line with revised expectations of the global economy s medium term prospects.

Any decision maker who depends on forecasts a businessman, an investor, or a government official needs to know the probability of very low or very high growth rates, as well as the median forecast.

We expressed our continuing commitment to assist the affected countries and their peoples in order to fully recover from the catastrophic and traumatic effects of the disaster, including in their mid and long term rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.

Whereas the medium term policy document was an investigation of the current state of affairs, the multiyear emancipation policy plan is a policy with goals that stretch to the year 2010.

With the establishment of the Strategic Planning Unit, work on the introduction of result based management and the development of a medium to long term strategy for UNODC will commence in 2005 and continue into 2006.

However, with favourable steps taken by both parties towards the end of 2004, several United Nations agencies gave greater attention to medium term planning and programming, in line with the priorities set out by the Planning Ministry of the Palestinian Authority.

Depending on the requirements of crop rotation and location, the area for the cultivation of oilseed rape for biodiesel could be expanded to 1 million hectares, covering approximately 5 per cent of German diesel demand in the medium term.

In the medium term it would also be necessary to look at the consequences of universal ratification, not only at the theoretical level, by clarifying the hierarchy of the source texts, as was done for the dual nature of humanitarian law, but also in practical terms, in the sense of a rationalization of the entire treaty system.

The medium term fiscal outlook continues to deteriorate while, in the short term, politicians play with the country s valuable AAA credit rating by arguing like schoolchildren over how to extend the debt ceiling.

Any decision maker who depends on forecasts a businessman, an investor, or a government official needs to know the probability of very low or very high growth rates, as well as the median forecast. But that information remains hidden.

Obstacles to transport and trade include differing standards and regulations, inadequate transport infrastructure, insufficient use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and lack of liability and cargo insurance and protection for national operators.

These documents present a coherent and comprehensive overview of the range of services to be provided by UNIDO within the framework of its eight service modules, and also indicate the Organization's areas of emphasis and programmatic priorities as well as its research programme for the medium term.

The payoff expected is more medium and long term, but both national Governments and international partners seem prepared to accommodate this for the sake of greater harmonization of official development assistance.

With such endorsements, however, expectations are high, and India s government will have to think about how they can best be fulfilled.

It is a policy for the long term.

Overly optimistic economic projections based on mistaken assessments of the global economy s ailments thus threaten recovery prospects with potentially far reaching consequences.

Issues that we once regarded as medium term are becoming more urgent.