Economic activity rates (per cent)

Economic activity collapsed and unemployment surged.

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.

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.

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

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

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

But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick start growth.

For example, one way for elites to remain in power is to suppress all economic activity.

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.

That leaves only monetary policy to support economic activity.

Economic activity was spiraling downward, while nervous investors were fleeing southern European banks.

In the process, the role of states and governments in economic activity will be vastly expanded.

Tourism is the primary economic activity, accounting for more than 60 per cent of GDP.

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.

The private sectors in both regions are expected to play a key role in building Asian African economic dynamism.

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.

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After all, cities are the hubs of prosperity, where more than 80 of global economic activity is concentrated.

Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.

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.

Of course, state intervention in the economy risks asphyxiating the dynamism of Brazil s companies and private initiatives.

Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.

SK Thew explains how the economic downturn is aggravating Malaysia s domestic problems

The capital held by rural women comes mostly from petty trade, small livestock and farming.

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?

By the start of 2008, it was clear that controlling inflation and cooling an overheating economy had become the government s main economic target.

The experiences of the 1990s and from economic history more generally show that trade liberalization and global economic integration are greatly facilitated by expansion of economic activity and employment and by improvements in living standards.

According to a recent study, in 18 of the 30 sample communities, agriculture which was not the main activity in any of the communities before September 2000, became the main economic activity in 2004.

The female economic activity rates in rural areas are highest in Latakia (22 per cent), followed by Hamah (16.5 per cent) and Tartus (14.5 per cent). In other areas, the female economic activity rates range between 5 and 9 per cent.

And declining economic activity in the rest of the world is lowering demand for US exports.

Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

There seems to be little or no news of the impact of the world's economic downturn.

This policy stimulus led to strong growth, in both consumption and investment, and economic activity recovered quickly.