In Colombia, the security problem has been the product of the weakness of the State in facing criminals.

Clearly, when it comes to action video games, screen time doesn't make your eyesight worse.

Started in 1996 as IPer (educational project for ED Media 1997).

Therein lies an additional explanation for tepid job growth, as well as a salutary lesson about policy.

Surveillance strategies, for example, are often more expensive than necessary, owing to poor communication.

In doing so, Bogota anticipate that the FARC will have less space to make demands. during the peace talks.

Rural women's low level of participation in decision making both within the family and in society stems mainly from sociocultural inhibitions and attitudes, a lack of civic and economic education, a lack of financial resources, passivity and timidity on the part of women and the excessive demands on their time owing to their multiple roles as mothers, wives and agents of development.

And due to the poor infrastructure, only 25 percent of those are receiving the life saving drugs that they need.

The low level of qualifications among women, which has led to a high female unemployment rate, following civil service staffing cutbacks.

Small, less developed countries such as my own suffer more severely due to their weak infrastructure, limited resources and their inability to recover.

Both views accept that the central source of weak aggregate demand is the disappearance of demand from former borrowers.

Given the vulnerability of so many eurozone countries, it appears that Merkel does not understand the immediate implications of her plan.

The tragic result has been extremely low use of nets throughout most of Africa, since impoverished people lack the purchasing power to buy nets.

Given the improbability of such an outcome, Europeans must brace themselves for another bout of political and legal turmoil.

Given the weakness of other European currencies, however, and Germany s desire to keep markets open, there was very little that its officials could do.

The UN s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007 cautions that a weaker housing market will undermine US growth.

A wider discussion of the root causes of the weaknesses in environmental governance should be undertaken before seriously entertaining the idea of transforming UNEP into a specialized agency.

That explains the neglect of US China economic relations, a neglect that is now dangerous to the US, given its weakened economic condition.

Given weak demand, which may be prolonged, Chinese exporters must accept increasingly thin profit margins to maintain market share.

Meanwhile, it can use its 2 trillion of reserves as a cushion when the US and global economy sag. China s economic growth may slow as its exports to the US and Europe weaken, but it is less dependent on these markets than most people assume.

Moreover, India has developed a tendency for chronic inflation, owing to an unhappy combination of supply bottlenecks (caused by poor infrastructure) and excessive demand (thanks to persistent public deficits).

Chronic anemia may result in behavioral disturbances in children as a direct result of impaired neurological development in infants, and reduced scholastic performance in children of school age.

In this narrative, the Cold War was not so much won by the US and the West as lost by the Soviets, the inevitable result of Soviet economic weakness and political decay.

Whereas it is recognized that due to poor pay and facilitation FARDC forces regularly collaborate with negative forces, no concerted effort was undertaken by MONUC to handle this problem.

Many departments do not seem to have taken the Government quota seriously probably because follow up measures were weak and departments were not made accountable to reach quota targets within a definite time period.

In other instances, those who make no pretence of being bound by the rule of law, such as armed groups and terrorists, are able to flout it because our peacemaking institutions and compliance mechanisms are weak.

In addition, there appeared to be a significant issue in Africa with contaminated halon, which was exacerbated by the limited ability to certify the purity of recycled halons.

But, given the PLO s weakness and lack of support in the Arab world after its refusal to oppose Iraq s occupation of Kuwait, its leaders accepted the flawed agreement, arguing that Palestinian borders would be agreed upon during the transition period.

The challenges of calculating GDP are particularly acute in Sub Saharan Africa, owing to weak national statistics offices and historical biases that muddy crucial measurements. Bothered by what he regarded as problems in Zambia s national statistics, Morten Jerven, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, spent four years examining how African countries obtain their data and the challenges they face in turning them into GDP estimates.

Since exports and investment account, respectively, for 30 and 40 of China s GDP growth, its economy is particularly vulnerable to weakening external demand and accumulation of non performing loans caused by excessive and wasteful spending on fixed assets.

Malaysia was keenly aware that corruption was a fundamental cause of poor economic performance and an obstacle to poverty reduction it fed crime and terrorism, weakened socio economic structures and could cause serious harm to a nation.

A related theory is that emerging economies citizens find it difficult to diversify the huge risk inherent in their fast growing but volatile environments, and feel particularly vulnerable as a result of weak social safety nets.

UNHCR was of the opinion that a substantial part of the increases in staff costs is nominal due to the weakening dollar, while another factor is the request of Member States to increase the presence of UNHCR staff (such as protection officers) in the field.

UNHCR was of the opinion that a substantial part of the increases in staff costs is nominal, due to the weakening dollar, while another factor is the request of Member States to increase the presence of UNHCR staff (such as protection officers) in the field.

This does not mean that capital controls can solve all problems the same paper shows that they are relatively ineffective at preventing lending booms another key cause of economic vulnerability.

That is by far the most protracted period of weakness in real US consumer demand since the end of World War II and a massive slowdown from the pre crisis pace of 3.6 annual real consumption growth from 1996 to 2007.

No academic laurels are to be won by finding innovative accounts as its cause the collapses were the result of financial weakness in countries where bad policies produced hyper inflation, which destroyed banks balance sheets.

Given the improbability of such an outcome, Europeans must brace themselves for another bout of political and legal turmoil.

American efforts to persuade China to play a greater role in regional security arrangements may be strengthened, and China s awareness of the vulnerability of its supply routes to US naval disruption in the unlikely event of conflict could also have a subtle effect on each side s bargaining power.

It began as a result of weakness in a specific sector residential mortgages after a bubble in home prices allowed many Americans to borrow massively, and often disastrously, against the putative value of their equity in order to finance purchases.

56. The weakening of intergenerational connections in the context of ageing societies implies that various needs of youth, children and older persons, which may have been supported through intricate and complex familial relationships, are increasingly not being met and are instead becoming the responsibility of the State or the private sector.

While growth slowed recently from very high rates owing to a combination of exposure to developed country weakness, internal loss of reform momentum, and declining investor confidence that trend appears to be reversing after recent decisive corrective moves by the government.

There are also some serious opinions that, due to weakening of the economic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina it would be risky to instigate court disputes, because such legal activities might make the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina even more complex.