Africa as a continent has the world s second highest measure of income concentration.

The first priority was to look after the people involved.

Indeed, if there were such a thing as a combined index of despair, Colombia would be an undisputed leader.

Germany is the world s second largest importer, closely behind the US.

Nicaragua currently is listed 110 out of 154 countries in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index.

The economy of England is the largest part of the UK's economy, which has the 18th highest GDP PPP per capita in the world.

The extent of this illicit trade is now estimated by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to be second only to trafficking in illicit drugs in financial turnover.

Japan's grim outlook is bad news for the world because it is the globe's second leading economic power. Prospects for Japan acting as a global economic locomotive and of playing a role in poverty reduction and economic development are, for now, almost nil.

If two players outside the top eight won Grand Slam events, the higher placed player in the world rankings would take the final spot in the Tennis Masters Cup.

Indeed, Nigeria s film industry is the world s third largest, after the US and India, and is second only to oil production in terms of its economic significance to the country.

Steinhoff is dominant in the neighbouring South African market and might abuse that position dominance in the Zimbabwean market by undercutting prices or becoming a price leader.

China, whose growth performance since 1970 has now broken every record, is well on its way to having the world s most unequal income distribution.

Damascus falls in 732.

13 See World Bank (2003). Measurement of the incomes of the richest and poorest tenths of households indicates that Bolivia comes first in Latin America, with 143.5, followed by Paraguay with 70.4.

However, when it came to allocating financial resources and managing human resources, her Government felt that protection continued to take second place to assistance, whereas resources should have been shared equally.

Books occupy most of his room.

Mires occupy 9.9 of Latvia's territory.

February 3 Soviet troops occupy Ukraine.

Indeed, for practically all of Latin America s countries, China is one of the ten main trade partners and already in second place in several with rates of growth well above total trade.

1942 World War II Japanese forces invade Burma.

The county of Hajdú Bihar occupies the eastern part of Hungary.

The US and China are in a race to be the world s worst polluter America has long won the contest, but in the next few years, China will claim that dubious honor.

Madonna usually only makes headlines in the world s tabloids.

The US needs to get out in front.

August 20 World War I German forces occupy Brussels.

The campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley.

It may no longer be a daily front page story.

Consider the average economic position of the members of each caste in this sample. Generally, most high ranking castes occupied high economic positions, and the majority of the untouchable castes were confined to the lowest economic positions.

A combined Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund (excluding the half trillion dollars in foreign exchange reserves) would rival Singapore s Temasek Holdings (currently sixth in the world) and lag just behind the China Investment Corporation.

The Kashmir question has lingered since 1947, the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus since 1974, and Israel s occupation of the West Bank from 1967.

Energy lies at the heart of the world s most pressing global challenges.

Many of the female operatic superstars Anna Netrebko, Elena Garanca, Angela Ghiorghiu, Magdalena Kožená, Aleksandra Kurzak come from former communist countries. Others are Asian.

Yet Somalia still rarely gets into the headlines.

Finally, partnerships will figure prominently on the agenda in Chicago.

Bacterioplankton occupy a range of ecological niches in aquatic systems.

The German construction industry and retailing are still stable, as the latest survey of the Ifo Institute shows, and the whole world is profiting from this stability, as Germany is the second largest importer of goods and services after the US.

If there were normal trading between the two countries, and without cutting off its other suppliers of rice, Cuba could acquire between 500,000 and 700,000 tons of rice annually from American growers to become the first or second largest importer of rice from the United States.

But America today is on the back foot, economically and militarily.

Monetary policy, incidentally, did not feature prominently in Bernanke s diagnosis.

Mongolia is ranked as lower middle income economy by the World Bank.

Turin is ranked third in Italy, after Milan and Rome, for economic strength.

It occupies an area of 754 m² at the northern part of the citadel.

Females may occupy up to 90 of the abdominal volume of their hosts.

It ranks 20th in the list of worst floods in history.

Similarly, despite high levels of political violence, Nigeria produces more than 1,000 films annually. Indeed, Nigeria s film industry is the world s third largest, after the US and India, and is second only to oil production in terms of its economic significance to the country.