Unemployment has remained remarkably low and confidence relatively high.

That concern was expressed by representatives of countries with high HIV prevalence rates as well as those with low rates

Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades.

Birth rates in the EU are low with the average woman having 1.6 children.

If interest rates are low, we can attract a great deal of money from the public.

We are finding it increasingly difficult to keep unemployment down.

Levels of serious crime are low indeed, not higher than other comparably populated areas of Europe and the trend is positive.

The IMF and OECD project very low inflation rates over the next few years.

Suddenly, two days of training became sufficient before starting real jobs the failure rate was low.

For the less qualified in Western Europe, a decrease in employment will be inevitable, because the scope for wage fluctuation is limited by collective agreements and by the minimum wage levels that the welfare state sets through wage replacement benefits and legal minimum wages.

Economic growth rates in the United States and Europe are low and well below even recent expectations.

If a government attempts to push the unemployment rate too low, inflation will increase, and so, too, will inflationary expectations.

In countries with low child mortality rates, the main focus of UNICEF will be on improving child growth and development and preventing injuries.

CAMBRIDGE Inflation is now low in every industrial country, and the combination of high unemployment and slow GDP growth removes the usual sources of upward pressure on prices.

That is why official data points to extremely low inflation rates over the next few years, despite the monetary and fiscal stimulus.

In countries like China and Germany, however, where businesses and the government retain a disproportionate share, household consumption rates may be correspondingly low.

This enabled US banks to profit by offering low rates of return to foreign lenders while forcing foreign borrowers to accept high interest rates.

To understand what is going on, we need a different explanation of what keeps investment and growth low in most poor nations.

The participation rates for women in political life were so low that there clearly seemed to be at least indirect discrimination against women.

But the ECB has signaled that big interest rate cuts are unlikely as long as the German economy remains strong, with relatively low unemployment.

Likewise, enrollment in private schools largely low cost institutions exceeds 40 in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda.

Ukraine, where total fertility (a very low 1.1 in 2001), was one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest low fertility.

Between 1970 and 1990 the overall tax burden rose by over 10 , and the growth was low compared to other countries in Western Europe.

By increasing the accuracy of each projectile, this technical development should make it possible to reduce substantially the number of OGR munitions needed to attack a given objective, and hence the number of submunitions used The development of systems (submunitions and dispensers) which guarantee very low rates of unexploded submunitions constitutes a second major area of activity.

Recently, the Fed expressed its intent to keep policy rates low for a long time until employment picks up strongly.

This shows you in areas with low malaria, medium malaria, high malaria what happens to the number of sexual partners as you increase HIV prevalence.

The reason is simple Japan s overall growth rates have been quite low, but growth was achieved despite a rapidly shrinking working age population.

It does not have the ability to record 25 30 FPS in 720p and WVGA modes (it can only record at very fast framerates in those lower resolutions).

Europe and Japan now have both large fiscal deficits and low inflation.

Only a shift in strategic focus would be needed to anchor monetary policy with a long run target range for low inflation.

Meanwhile, heightened international competition kept the lid on inflation, and interest rates remained low, giving a further boost to consumer spending and completing what looked like a virtuous growth circle.

Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.

Although the scope of the disaster was daunting, the rapid response of the Government and the international community ensured that casualty rates remained low, with 16 confirmed deaths.

As market size has been constricted and intraregional integration has faced obstacles, economic growth rates have remained low and obstacles and barriers to participation in the multilateral trading system remain.

Therefore, prices could be low but not abnormally low.

While these trends benefit Chinese workers, they also support America and other countries by holding down inflation and making it possible for their companies to cope with tough competitive pressures.

In Brazil, low savings and various institutional impediments keep interest rates high and investment low, while the educational system does not serve significant parts of the population well.

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Interest rates are already low.

But maintaining stability involves not only keeping inflation low, but also, and crucially, avoiding large swings in economic activity, external imbalances, and financial crises.

They had bad grades. Some of them dropped out.

The share of management and administration has remained low.

This challenges the Washington Consensus, with its one size fits all formula of privatization, deregulated labor markets, financial liberalization, international economic integration, and macroeconomic stability based on low inflation.

Thus, they still face a trade off between pushing unemployment too low, and setting off an episode of inflation, and not pushing hard enough, resulting in an unnecessary waste of economic resources.

Consolidating peace following violent conflict has little chance of success unless jobs are created and the economy is quickly stabilized and brought onto a path of investment and growth with low inflation.