The number of people living in extreme poverty remains high.

Official taxes are high when spending is high.

That, in turn, indicates a high demographic dependency ratio.

The fertility rate is high, at 6.6 children per woman.

However, demand remained high due to the ongoing military preparations of the opposition.

But if any of you people ask, What actually goes up? Does anything go up?

Commodity dependence, even with the creation of considerable domestic value added, remains high.

China is justly proud of its success in emerging from the world recession with a high rate of economic growth.

The vacancy rate for professional posts at the Economic Commission for Africa was too high.

So, you'll be on Mars, and you're at Hellespointica Depressio which has got to be a really up place.

Simply put, the current cost of pollution is too low, while the level of urgency is high.

But he is working to keep his CD4 count high and his viral level low so he can make his life better.

The first is improving the quality, safety and relevance of basic education, so that student enrolment and motivation remain high.

Although the country's export base has improved, mainly because of the export of mineral resources, the level of imports remains elevated.

Maternal mortality in Pakistan remains high.

As a result, ample reserve funds have been created on the banks balance sheets and return on equity has remained high.

This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'

And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

As in the other subregions of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, inflation increased in 2004 and is expected to stay high in 2005.

Although fertility levels have started to decline in some of the least developed countries, the desired number of children remains high.

Whereas in outlying rural areas the rate was still rather high, in Beirut, it was virtually zero.

In 2009, China was justly proud of its success in emerging from the global recession with a high rate of economic growth.

The number of female students who graduated at the primary level both within and outside urban areas was slightly higher than that of male students (2001 data).

This figure is still seen to be fairly high indicating the continuing strong cultural tendency towards having large families.

Second, a smaller group of treaties exhibits a moderately high likelihood of applicability during armed conflict, including reciprocal inheritance treaties and multilateral law making conventions.

But, while the debt was highly rated, how could anyone objectively assess unsecured and virtually unenforceable obligations?

Portfolio growth was strong in post conflict transition countries, while among clients, international financial institutions represented the strongest growth trend.

The government has been relatively unsuccessful at introducing new industries, and the unemployment rate remains high at 19.8 in the 1991 census to 15 in 2001.

There was a high turnover rate in two years, eight staff members successively occupied the five established posts. This could be detrimental to the continuity and efficiency of work performed.

With respect to security, there is peace throughout most of the territory, apart from a few pockets in the areas of rural Bujumbura, Cibitoke and Bubanza, where the crime rate remains high.

Consistent with recoveries from such recessions, demand has grown slowly, despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, and that explains why the unemployment rate remains high.

The level of funds not justified by implementing partners at year's end therefore improved, but nevertheless remained high.

Overall growth in East and North East Asia in 2004 climbed to 7.5 per cent, 1.3 percentage points higher than in 2003.

The total programme expenditure from core and non core resources in 2004 was 21.0 million, up from 16.7 million the year before.

The level of funds not justified by implementing partners at year's end therefore improved, but still remained high.

The Team's trips focussed on States which face a high level of threat, which have particular knowledge of the threat or which it deemed vulnerable to the threat.

The foregoing notwithstanding, arms transactions remained numerous, as indicated in the statistical increase over transactions documented in the previous mandate period.

While precise figures are not yet available, the overall number of persons required to disarm, according to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, is expected to be high.

Taking into account the fact that, despite some progress in the fight against poverty, its level is still high in many countries with economies in transition, particularly in the rural areas,

The historical performance of hedge funds and private equities is generally higher than that of publicly traded equities, and lower correlation with other asset classes provides opportunities for risk reduction

Nevertheless, the rate of poverty remains intolerably high and it is not likely that the continent will attain Millennium Development Goal 1 of reducing poverty by half by 2015 at current rates of growth.

While my country, Rwanda, has reduced child mortality by 70 over the past decade, the rate of stunting remains high, with 44 of children under the age of five chronically malnourished.

South East Europe and the CIS countries have a high share of people living in poverty, with the incidence remaining high in seven low income countries in that region.

Funding for basic research activities has decreased, with fluctuations, since 1995, from 18 per cent to 14 per cent in 2003, up from 10 per cent in 2002.

If the amount of resources spent on these activities were added to expenditures for the costed population package, the overall level of support to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development would be considerably higher.