Economic activity collapsed and unemployment surged.

Without mutual trust, economic activity is severely constrained.

Much economic activity lies outside the GDP data.

For the first time in history a government controlled all economic activity.

After the Andean highlands, it is the second most important region in economic activity.

But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick start growth.

The government has also sought to attract foreign investment and promote economic diversification.

That leaves only monetary policy to support economic activity.

Hardly any major projects between China and Latin America have been initiated by the private, public, or academic sectors, and bilateral institutions do not yet reflect the weight of economic dynamics.

E function or ministers in charge of economic activity Ministers of Finance, Commerce, Industry and Agriculture

Those unprecedented events will foster economic activity in the Gaza Strip and improve the lives of ordinary Palestinians.

In the process, the role of states and governments in economic activity will be vastly expanded.

For example, one way for elites to remain in power is to suppress all economic activity.

This policy stimulus led to strong growth, in both consumption and investment, and economic activity recovered quickly.

Some countries (for example, Greece and Portugal) relied on debt financed government spending to fuel economy activity.

Tourism is the primary economic activity, accounting for more than 60 per cent of GDP.

These statistics emphasize national government corruption, foreign economic interference in the country, and the rift between the rich and poor.

The Fed has pursued its strategy of low long term interest rates in the hope of stimulating economic activity.

After all, cities are the hubs of prosperity, where more than 80 of global economic activity is concentrated.

Economic activity was spiraling downward, while nervous investors were fleeing southern European banks.

Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.

Even the recapitalization of banks through state assistance has not been enough to revive economic activity.

PARIS Economists worldwide need better ways to measure economic activity.

NEW DELHI Few areas of economic activity in the United States are more politicized than housing finance.

This may be true particularly for FDI from neighboring countries, for which such internationalization may involve a relatively small effort.

Over the course of Uribe s presidency, foreign investment increased 50 and annual economic growth averaged 4 .

While they lasted, the booms that preceded these busts caused these economies to overheat.

What is needed is a root and branch transformation of the way that economic activity is carried out in all Arab nations.

Societies long oriented to economic dynamism tend to welcome the economically successful, viewing them as a source of mutual gains.

SK Thew explains how the economic downturn is aggravating Malaysia s domestic problems

The prospect of increased economic activity at the sea's edge will inevitably result in the increased movement of people to coastal areas.

Another consequence of such crimes was the disruption of payment systems and the diversion of economic activity out of the formal financial system.

The capital held by rural women comes mostly from petty trade, small livestock and farming.

The private sectors in both regions are expected to play a key role in building Asian African economic dynamism.

By the start of 2008, it was clear that controlling inflation and cooling an overheating economy had become the government s main economic target.

And declining economic activity in the rest of the world is lowering demand for US exports.

Of course, state intervention in the economy risks asphyxiating the dynamism of Brazil s companies and private initiatives.

This additional economic activity will boost overall GDP growth, yielding significant new fiscal revenues.

The big surprise here is not that central banks acted decisively and boldly when financial markets froze and economic activity plummeted.

Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.

Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

There seems to be little or no news of the impact of the world's economic downturn.

National accounts or national account systems (NAS) are the implementation of complete and consistent accounting techniques for measuring the economic activity of a nation.

In developing countries and transition economies, it is the local firms small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which are responsible for most economic activity. On the one hand, there are modern SMEs in the developing countries that need to be nurtured into efficient and competitive enterprises.

Market access and foreign direct investment would help to promote economic growth and generate productive employment.