Then market stocks seize and we're like, Wow.

Financial flows for development have severely contracted.

In the US, as the financial sector soared, the manufacturing base contracted sharply.

In the few industries that contracted in China, the US has gained employment.

As in the case of the emerging market bonds, portfolio equities retrenched in the second quarter of 2005.

As a result, the resource base of UNDP and other United Nations specialized agencies has been eroded.

Success would also depend on the external environment, since the real resource base of many developing countries had been shrinking rapidly in recent years.

On top of that the French Empire was being shrunken back to its original boundaries which made many people in France a lot less proud so Napoleon started to sense that maybe he could do something.

When she was brought to the health centre, the nurse found that her veins had collapsed and she could not give her any injection.

So just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk to beautiful, tiny iPods, maybe intelligent life itself, in order to reduce its footprint on the environment, has turned itself microscopic, so the Solar System might be teeming with aliens, and we're just not noticing them.

The gaps between men and women in Civil Service's internal job tenders participation, both as candidates and appointees, have diminished in the past four years.

Likewise, FDI inflows have been expanding only in resource intensive sectors, while falling in services and practically stagnating in manufacturing.

It is not only the relative rankings that differ. Sometimes, one source will show a country growing by several percentage points, and another source will show it shrinking over the same time period.

But, while global economic integration did not regain its 1914 level until half a century later, military globalization grew as economic globalization shrank.

However, the share of LDCs in the aid programmes of those countries has been declining in recent years, and further contracted in 1991, the last year for which figures were available.