The Ifo business confidence indicator in Germany has been down four months in a row but, according to Ifo, the ECB does not have to change policy.

The very vitality of the business sector is growth.

The index is the share of people who answered increase to the question, If the Dow dropped 3 tomorrow, I would guess that the day after tomorrow the Dow would Increase? Decrease?

But there is at least one important sense in which America s current construction bust suggests that they are wrong.

These are serious benefits to weigh against some business sluggishness.

The Bulgarian business processing sector lacks 50,000 people.

The withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip was welcomed as an indicator of further steps to be taken.

The proportion of businesses with an intranet is also a core indicator owing to the importance of such networks in e business.

As of 2004, the financial services industry represented 20 of the market capitalization of the S P 500 in the United States.

Meanwhile, Latin American businesses have been increasing their own foreign investments.

Throughout the world, the business sector remains both the predominant performer and the predominant funder of R D investment.

E business cannot develop without trust in ICT.

Box 1 South Africa's challenge in reforming infrastructure services and utilities

Enterprises could also be encouraged to employ students as interns or part time researchers, laying the foundation for later employment.

All are built on a business model approach to management rather than on one that is indigenous to the public sector.

The Africa Asia Business Forum aims to stimulate trade and investment between countries in both regions, bringing together business representatives to discuss possible joint ventures, bilateral agreements, enterprise exchanges and a variety of business instruments.

For agenda item 2, Practical confidence building measures in the field of conventional arms .

But the first Eurobond, the raising of international capital offshore, off its own balance sheet, without any sovereign backing that is an indication of the confidence that is taking place in that economy.

This confidence is based on data and or models and is usually mapped on Common Risk Segment Maps (CRS Maps).

Cycles of economic fashion are as old as business cycles, and are usually caused by deep business disturbances.

New business partnerships are being fostered by the Special Unit as it organizes forums for African and Asian businesses to catalyse investment and technology transfer at the enterprise level.

But the business world is built on our intuitive knowledge of when we can trust people fairly well and when we can t trust them much at all.

In conclusion, allow me to express the confidence of the business sector in the General Assembly.

One example is the increasing number of young, successful information technology entrepreneurs in Pakistan.

Switzerland is a relatively easy place to do business, currently ranking 28th of 178 countries in the Ease of Doing Business Index.

The latest ZEW survey of euro zone business confidence buttresses these fears.

Many of the violations are not reported either because of fear of reprisals or lack of confidence in the judicial system.

The Guide has been designed to assist businesses in identifying effective ways to support United Nations emergency relief efforts.

As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

The move towards business tourism transformed the capital into a national hub for this segment of the tourist industry.

As more students graduate with relevant skills and motivation, this growing pool of human capital will, in turn, attract more enterprises to the region, thus creating a virtuous, self reinforcing circle of technological capacity development and R D activity.

A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market.

They get the money, and the barbershop reopens with even better business than before.

Encourages the business sector, in particular the tourism industry and Internet providers, to

Russia s robber baron capitalism lacks the kind of effective regulation that creates trust in market relationships.

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty first session an item entitled Transparency and confidence building measures in outer space activities .

The rule of law is a necessary component of rebuilding trust and the new Government will need to revise the legal codes as a key element of reforming the justice sector.

The US then entered into a destructive 15 year relationship with Jean Bertrand Aristide, who is massively popular among Haiti s poor, but distrusted by most of the business sector and many leading US politicians.

The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors).

Seventy five per cent of Internet sales is B2B, mainly between large firms.

States parties to the Convention pledged to punish those accused of bribing officials in foreign countries with a view to retaining trust in international business.

Guidelines on cooperation between the United Nations and the business community, for example, were issued by the Secretary General in July 2000.

Both systems include B2C and B2B platforms allowing tourism buyers and sellers to identify partners simply and effectively.

3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty second session the item entitled Transparency and confidence building measures in outer space activities .

4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty third session the item entitled Transparency and confidence building measures in outer space activities .