Economic activity rates (per cent)

Second, repeated QE may become ineffective over time as the channels of transmission to real economic activity become clogged.

Economic activity collapsed and unemployment surged.

Without mutual trust, economic activity is severely constrained.

Much economic activity lies outside the GDP data.

The tables below provide a breakdown of overall economic activity rates.

Economic activity in general is strongly linked to the United States.

22 Pacific Business Center Program. University of Hawaii. American Samoa.

25 Pacific Business Center Program. University of Hawaii.

Moreover, while the Fed s actions have helped the owners of bonds and stocks, it is not clear that they have stimulated real economic activity.

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 outlook for real economic growth in 2005 remains strong with a preliminary 2005 forecast of 5 per cent (excluding Iraq and Palestine).

Unable to facilitate balance sheet repair or stimulate real economic activity, QE has, instead, become a dangerous source of instability in global financial markets.

That leaves only monetary policy to support economic activity.

In some branches of activity in the national economy the participation of women in the labour force is equal to that of men.

The rise in real output was attributed to the heightened tourism activity supported by continued growth in the financial services sector.

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

From 1998 onwards an upward tendency began to emerge in most sectors of economic activity.

Where there's no internet, there's poverty.

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

Oil activities in Iraq represent the main economic activity, and it will be so, for the years to come.

Imagine that a young woman base of the economic pyramid, very little prospect of getting a job what economic activity could she theoretically engage in?

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.

It also includes security of transport channels and transportation in general (aviation security, maritime security, railroad security), the protection of critical infrastructure, border control management, and document security.

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.

These constitute a relatively small fraction of SMEs but make a large contribution to the economy.

21 Office of Insular Affairs, American Samoa Business Opportunities Report, September 2004, www.businessopportunitiesconference.com.

And it is the real interest rate not the money rate that counts for economic growth.

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