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.

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

Those unprecedented events will foster economic activity in the Gaza Strip and improve the lives of ordinary Palestinians.

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

That leaves only monetary policy to support economic activity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Some countries (for example, Greece and Portugal) relied on debt financed government spending to fuel economy activity.

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.

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.

The Fed has pursued its strategy of low long term interest rates in the hope of stimulating economic activity.

Even the recapitalization of banks through state assistance has not been enough to revive economic activity.

However, the smaller scale economic activity occurs in the informal sector and is not reflected in GDP data.

The recent collapse of those bubbles caused sharp downturns in economic activity and substantial increases in unemployment in both countries.

He (rarely she) encourages people to dream and also to take risks, persist in the face of long odds, and generate economic activity.

Widespread economic activity between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey has given the opportunity for Turks to seek jobs in Iraqi Kurdistan.

As in the framework of the new demographic data the economically active population of the European Union is continually shrinking, it has become evident that, if the European Union wishes to remain competitive, it must utilize fully the totality of its labour force implementing policies to facilitate, in particular, groups which face difficulties in their integration to the labour market.

High investment may cause economic overheating and increase the price of capital goods in the medium term, eventually triggering inflation.

Societies long oriented to economic dynamism tend to welcome the economically successful, viewing them as a source of mutual gains.

The prospect of increased economic activity at the sea's edge will inevitably result in the increased movement of people to coastal areas.

Another consequence of such crimes was the disruption of payment systems and the diversion of economic activity out of the formal financial system.

As the world s center of economic gravity shifts east, the balance of financial activity is bound to move with it.

But Argentina remains overly dependent on commodities, and has failed to encourage economic activity based on its peoples culture and ingenuity.