Feral children provide an example of the effects of severe social deprivation during critical developmental periods.

The result as visible as it was predictable has been a sharp slowdown in economic growth.

The importance of the link between economic growth and the reduction of acute poverty must be emphasized (see figure below).

While a global recession will be averted, a severe growth slowdown will not.

Most of the equity in the sector is local, and strong growth in this area points to the possibility of exporting to the region.

In 2009, economists expect growth to contract by up to 8 , with a further steep decline likely next year.

The euro s recent sharp rise has made this competitiveness problem even more severe, reducing growth further and making fiscal imbalances even larger.

Indeed, the world should expect a near recession in Russia and Brazil in 2009, owing to low commodity prices, and a sharp slowdown in China and India that will be the equivalent of a hard landing (growth well below potential) for these countries.

That is, the markets have been more vulnerable to sudden large drops than they have been to sudden large increases.

The initial export shock was likely to reduce growth. The sudden deleveraging imposed by foreign creditors requires the current account balance to adjust further and faster.

There is now also the beginning of a hard landing in emerging markets as the recession in advanced economies, falling commodity prices, and capital flight take their toll on growth.

These hard landing scenarios are extreme.

Excess capacity and falling growth are mutually reinforcing. Not only does excess capacity have a negative impact on growth perhaps more important, sharply declining growth also contributes to massive redundancy in some industries (especially resources and the heavy and chemical industries).

It s hard to come up with a surprise that would suit what we think is my severe depression.

Symptoms are typified by diarrhoea with fever, and acute enteritis.

NEW YORK Political turmoil in the Middle East has powerful economic and financial implications, particularly as it increases the risk of stagflation, a lethal combination of slowing growth and sharply rising inflation.

He retired in 1962, due to severe bursitis in his arm.

Because we instinctively find, or create, a pattern between the round shape and the round sound of Bouba, and the spiky shape and the spiky sound of Kiki.

But an internationally agreed set of policies could help reduce the risk of weaker growth in the major economies, maintain confidence in the stability of international financial markets, and avoid a hard landing for the dollar.

The Middle East, in particular, is experiencing a moment of intense transformation.

A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export led economy. But China is in much better shape than the rest of the world.

So the risk of a hard landing will rise by the end of this year.

The line was greeted with prolonged applause and understandably so.

Approximately 20 of patients have a relapse of pain during acute pancreatitis.

The most common cause of death in acute pancreatitis is secondary infection.

The process is particularly important in staunching hemorrhage and acute blood loss.

Source Own figures based on data from the Bank of Guatemala, UNDP HDI and ASIES.

Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!

And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe.

According to the latest available data, the incidence of acute poverty is highest among the rural population (32 per cent), while acute poverty in urban areas was 9 per cent in 2004.

Now I'm not talking about a radical drop in population like we saw in the Black Death.

Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.

Similar associations were observed between the use of paracetamol and the risk of severe asthma symptoms.

In the United States and the United Kingdom it is the most common cause of acute liver failure.

Acute myelitis accounts for 4 to 5 percent of all cases of neuroborreliosis.

It is also a sign of acute rejection after heart transplant surgery.

Yet stumbling oil export performance and a sharp rise in infrastructure related imports, combined with an explosive growth in public spending, have fueled consistently high levels of inflation, with the annual rate now at more than 20 .

The sharp fiscal retrenchment that has now started throughout southern Europe should contribute further to a sharp deceleration, if not outright fall, in domestic demand there.

What is stoppable is the steep rise in Asia s reliance on fossil fuels.

A sense of despondency has set in that nothing can be done to stop it.

Indeed, even sharply reduced demand for tobacco would not mean unemployment in most countries.

The region s economies have contracted, owing to a sharp drop in tourism revenues and disruptions of production and trade.

NEW YORK The world economy is being battered by sharply higher energy prices.

Humanitarian organizations cannot operate under such lack of essentials.

In some cases, acute kidney failure may be the primary clinical manifestation of toxicity.