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

We deplore its weak capacity to respond to grave human rights violations.

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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.

34. Similarly, the food security situation in the region is precarious owing to a weak agricultural sector.

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.

15. One of the key factors in the weakness of commodity export earnings is the lack of international market opportunities.

He had felt frustration, given the impotence of the Government apos s position to force the relinquishment of this vestige of colonialism.

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.

We are also concerned over the general pattern of under funding of non food requirements, as well as the shortage of untied food resources.

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

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.

Weak oil prices greatly contributed to the slow growth and most projections suggest that they will remain comparatively low over the medium term.

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.

Income and human development poverty can cause social exclusion just as social exclusion can cause income and human development poverty.

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.

Additionally, there was a significant increase in miscellaneous income because of increases in investment income as well as exchange gains from the weakening dollar.

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.

If you're a recent acquaintance of Bobbie's, you'll probably be surprised to hear that there was a time when he was more remarkable for the weakness of his memory than anything else.

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.

Multilateral surveillance remained at the centre of crisis prevention efforts and should focus on improving analytical tools for early identification of specific areas of country weakness.

As the Palestinian economy is weak and highly dependent on that of Israel, the livelihood of the Palestinian communities suffered further damage when Israel closed off the occupied territories in March 1993.

In that regard, they recognized the need for the region to be even more competitive, given its vulnerable economies and the formation of trading blocs, such as that created under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

We hope that out of that gathering will come not only a keener appreciation of the vulnerabilities of the smaller States in the region but also a greater impetus for collaboration on matters of regional trade and development.

E. Industrial development and mining 69. CDB reported that the low level of activity in the manufacturing sector during 1991 continued into 1992, again mainly as a result of the poor performance of the tourist industry.

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.