They paid for the war, but resulted in the most severe inflation since the American Revolution.

Latvia s example is the most acute.

The tone of the commentaries has, of late, become more strident and filled with war rhetoric.

This is not an entirely bad approach if it results in sharper public debate.

Some notice, with much regret, that the programme's tone was harsher during Morsi days

Capacity building of the PPAF will support operating costs, staff training, technical assistance for various studies and cost of fixed assets. The Fund has a special focus on women.

In the cities, a lot of the cost of property is actually wrapped up in its speculative value.

Calculating how much it would cost to stop landowners felling their trees is harder.

The need for international legal order and justice has never been felt as acutely as today.

The higher interest rates rise to stabilize emerging markets currencies, the more severe their crises will be.

You pay only a quarterly account holding fee of 1000 GNF.

Instead, the index declined three times more steeply than others.

Finally, blockage of the multilateral process will trigger an even more pronounced shift toward bilateral or regional free trade agreements (FTA s). FTA s cannot substitute for multilateral liberalization.

Development is much more than reducing extreme poverty it involves a technological revolution, the creation of a middle class and the rule of law.

The average cost of the bailouts was only a few percentage points of GNP.

Temperatures will rise, storms will intensify, the oceans will become more acidic, and species will go extinct in vast numbers as their habitats are destroyed.

Food fortification and iron supplementation are widely ranked among the most cost effective interventions for poverty reduction.

As part of its poverty reduction campaign, the department has taken steps to make the work of women in the mines more visible and less constraining.

An examination of the PRSP was therefore conducted and a number of suggestions were made to make the document even more responsive to the specific needs of the female population of the country.

But even the most reluctant policymakers recognize that the cost of inaction is too great.

Use more cheap debt, and equity becomes riskier and costlier, keeping overall financing costs the same.

The Committee had therefore embarked on a change in its working methods in order to send stronger, more coherent messages to the international community.

Yet nowadays divisions between candidates for office are deeper than ever and are even sharper among party activists.

Nevertheless, the benefits in reducing the likelihood of another crisis and another loss of economic independence far outweigh the costs.

Because the problem there is just as severe, but it is more sinister, because vitamin D deficiency, from a lack of ultraviolet B radiation, is a major problem.

American officials call this manipulation, arguing that market forces would have resulted in a sharper renminbi appreciation than has occurred.

But their presence has also raised concerns that speculation in commodity futures could result in higher price volatility.

For the foreseeable future, one of the principal outcomes of the invasion of Iraq will be greater volatility and thus higher prices.

Europe must find more effective policies that reduce production costs toward German levels.

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Poverty Alleviation Poverty alleviation is a high priority of the Government of Pakistan.

Indigenous people's poverty indices are generally higher than the national average, and, with some exceptions, poverty is more extreme among these people.

While these problems are endemic in the country, they are particularly acute in border areas, which have suffered from decades of armed conflict.

Developing nations will need to be more understanding and responsive to legitimate concerns in rich countries, and be more willing to pay for some global public goods.

As the death toll in Syria increases, the International Community is running out of patience and hardening its tone against Syrian president Bashar Al Assad demanding for change and reforms.

First, devaluation would distribute the costs of rebalancing more evenly, making it easier to clear the burden sharing hurdle to deeper reforms.

History teaches that such swings are not sustainable, and that the more excessive they become, the sharper and more costly are the eventual reversals and the graver the consequences for the financial system and the economy.

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Saudi Arabia s rulers, as custodians of the Muslim faith s holiest places in Mecca and Medina, perhaps feel this threat most keenly.

While the politics of frustration was thus controlled in the postcommunist world, it broke out with a vengeance in the Islamic world.

Rates of inflation picked up in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, falling somewhat in India and the Islamic Republic of Iran and more sharply in Turkey.

The Panel has made adjustments to the costs of the project to take into account inadequacies in the information provided by Jordan and also the fact that Jordan failed to take steps to mitigate the damage, particularly by failing to reduce grazing pressure on the rangelands.

Table 3 attempts to illustrate the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services in 2002 by using the human resource factor, which in most cases represents over 95 per cent of the costs of procurement services or total procurement cost.

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