Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

At that time, both domestic investment and exports required immediate tightening.

Germany had a current account surplus of 2.1 of GDP at the time, while Japan s was 4.4 .

This leads us to examining India s current fixation with GDP growth as a national panacea.

History Before 8 February 1892 there was no uniformity of time in South Africa and local time was in use at the various towns.

The current shocks to GDP have led to falling levels of per capita income and brought widespread poverty.

At the same time, the fiscal deficit is more than 7 of GDP.

At that time, the country's gross domestic product was growing at a remarkable rate and our future looked very promising.

Meanwhile, ODA fell far short of the target of 0.7 per cent of GNP.

Europe as a whole currently devotes only 1.6 of its GDP to defense, compared to 4.8 for the US.

Currently, the government is trying to slow the GDP growth rate, and job shortages are emerging in coastal areas.

A wide range of official measures could be employed to support domestic demand while protecting medium term fiscal sustainability.

Back in Beijing, the chief preoccupation is to safeguard 11 GDP growth while assuaging Western governments.

A third strategy of Development through Local Integration (DLI) is based on providing financial support which recognizes the needs of the entire community while refugees become self reliant and or integrate locally.

It is sometimes said, almost in the same breath, that Greece s debt equals 153 of its annual GDP, and that Greece is insolvent.

Trade and exports accounted for 67 and 37 of the country s GDP, respectively, before the global crisis, but have since fallen significantly.

In sub Saharan Africa, both GNP per capita and wealth per capita have declined.

There is currently common funding for certain shared costs, such as headquarters, with contributions linked to the member states GDPs.

The Agreement on Agriculture's domestic support system currently allows Europe and the United States to spend 380 billion a year on agricultural subsidies.

Meanwhile, higher public spending on capital investment and other special procurements will boost domestic demand.

Sending international peace workers to Jeju Island at this time signals to everyone involved that the global peace movement clearly understands the strategic nature of this local struggle.

At the same time, the rest of Europe would export more, GDP would increase, and unemployment would decrease.

With the rising contribution of services to global GDP, now is the time to reassess the need for travel to work.

Most important, all local PLAC secretaries simultaneously lead the local public security bureau.

While GDP growth in the African Financial Community (CFA) largely outpaced the rest of Africa in the 1990 s, it has since stalled.

At the same time, we must increase our efforts to improve the protection of women in armed conflict, parallel to acknowledging and enhancing their contribution to peace processes and to rebuilding their communities.

This fits with the 12th Five Year Plan s new focus on innovation based strategic emerging industries energy conservation, new generation information technology, biotechnology, high end equipment manufacturing, renewable energy, alternative materials, and autos running on alternative fuels.

At the same time, automatic reductions in the defense budget and discretionary domestic spending agreed to by both Democrats and Republicans in the summer of 2011 will take effect.

More aggressive liberalization of the bloated banking system, network services (especially in energy and transport), and public procurement may contribute significantly over time to raising domestic investment and incomes.

The wave of regionalism experienced by the region during the 1990s, sparked intraregional trade for some time, stimulating in this way gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

At the same time, however, the relative cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs will more than double, from 4.5 to 10.9 of GDP.

Although GDP growth slowed sharply in 2009, it recovered quickly Germany s economy is now 8 larger than it was then.

After all, debt (which is measured in currency units) and GDP (which is measured in currency units per unit of time) yields a ratio in units of pure time.

For insurance to be effective as a risk management device, weather must be measured at a finely detailed local level, and the correct measurements must be taken at the correct time.

Political instability and shocks to GDP in both Iraq and Palestine have, over time, led to massive unemployment, deteriorating living standards and widespread poverty.

Economy by sector Fisheries and agriculture now account for about 2.4 of the GDP, down from approximately 25 in 1960, while still employing 9.9 of the labor force.

At the same time, developing countries may need to promote local private sectors and infant industries through temporary protectionist measures, which would help them to upgrade their output on the road to liberalization.

At a time when many advanced countries run government deficits, GDP linked bonds would improve risk management and bring down financing costs.

And if all countries pursue austerity simultaneously, lower demand for each country s goods will lead to lower domestic and foreign consumption, leaving all worse off.

Unfortunately, government borrowing to finance its deficit over the rest of this decade is projected to absorb about 5 of GDP.

The idea of linking debt relief to a country s debt GDP ratio has been around for a while, but has never gained significant acceptance.

While the Government took responsibility for defining norms, developing strategies and allocating subsidies, the most pressing housing problems were settled at the local level.

At the same time, Haiti's debt GDP ratio in present value terms is relatively low, at 26 per cent, and is expected to decrease to about 21 per cent in 2008.a The critical situation in the country would advocate for an increase of the share of the grant element of external assistance programmes.

But, since then, the southern countries have had a decade of rather high infrastructure investment more than 3 of GDP in Spain, Greece, and Portugal.

Japan s GDP share is about one third of Asia and 8 of the world.