Of course, the rate of increase of the price of oil in euros during the past year was lower than the rate of increase in dollars.

Second, the rate of increase is double for women compared to that of men.

Despite a steady increase in the number of facilities number, these still fall short of providing the population substantial cover in many important areas.

The annual rate of increase in the EAP is 4 per cent, for exceeding the rate of growth of the total population.

According to the information provided by the Public Health Institute of the Federation, among the population older than 19, mental disorders and behavioural disorders caused by alcohol show a trend of steady increase from 1998 to 2002, the incidence rate being 101.3 per 100,000 people.

The increase derived, usually, from the greater numbers of divorces and the higher rate of unemployment.

The positive trend continued during the first half of 2008, but the rate of increase slackened.

The exponential increase in international trade had led to a corresponding increase in commercial disputes and, in that connection, the importance of arbitration as a means of resolving international commercial disputes could not be overemphasized.

That is because an increase in the inflation rate causes interest rates on new debt to rise by an equal amount.

This implies a rate of growth of 6.7 a year, about 2.5 times the rate of increase in the number of girls entering the primary school age cohort.

But when I was here, a lot of my fellow teenagers were in a very different situation, leaving school at a time then of rapidly growing youth unemployment, and essentially hitting a brick wall in terms of their opportunities.

The drop in the saving rate can be readily traced to a massive increase in the rate of household consumption.

Relief activities were greatly hindered by a steady increase in banditry along Darfur's main roads, which has limited access of humanitarian staff and goods to some affected populations.

The increase in the household saving rate reduces America s need for foreign funds to finance its business investment and residential construction.

The rate of increase in the world s population rose from 1.8 in 1951 to 2.1 in 1971.

In humid conditions, the air feels hotter than it actually is, because of the reduction in evaporation of perspiration.

There was a slow increase in the population until World War II, after which there was a resurgence of emigration to other countries in Europe, which continued until 1971 and the start of another period of steady increase until 1993 (611,000 inhabitants).

Increasing public awareness The steady increase in beekeeper migration (for pollination service on agricultural crops) has masked the issue of pollinator decline from much public awareness, however sudden blocks to such migration could have catastrophic results on the global food supply.

The sustainable increase of rice production and the diversification of rice based production systems will require continuing investment in both research and development at national, regional and global levels to contribute to the achievement of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals and the World Food Summit.

It is important that the steady pace of the substantive lines of enquiry be maintained.

This means that the problem is not a certain increase in homeowners insurance losses, but rather a risk of increase.

Iraq states that Jordan has not established that the alleged increase in its crime rate was a direct result of the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

To address the debt burden problem, many African countries at first resorted to repeated debt rescheduling which focused on debt service flows, resulting in steadily increasing debt stocks and related service payments.

Since the true value of long term assets is so hard to estimate, it is human nature to focus on the rate of increase in their observed prices, and to allow one s attention to become fixated on these assets just as their value is increasing very fast.

Of course, the rate of increase of the price of oil in euros during the past year was lower than the rate of increase in dollars. The euro price of oil in May 2007 was 48 euros, or 56 below its current price.

While the one time increase will appear in official statistics as a temporary rise in the growth rate, there is nothing to make that higher growth rate continue in the following quarters.

The history of journalism, or the development of the gathering and transmitting of news, spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused, as one history of journalism surmises, the steady increase of the scope of news available to us and the speed with which it is transmitted.

Stress, exercise, and emotion can all result in a normal or physiological increase in heart rate, but can also, more rarely, precipitate SVT.

During this long process of industrialization, wages will increase gradually, but it is very unlikely that they will grow at the same rate as labor productivity.

On 31 December 2008, membership was 1.166 billion, an increase of 11.54 over the same date in 2000, only slightly greater than the rate of increase of the world population (10.77 ).

Such an initiative should be linked to increased efforts for disarmament and demilitarization at the regional and global levels.

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

The effort to maintain the dollar renminbi exchange rate at a level approved by China s State Council has already led to an enormous increase in the Chinese economy s financial liquidity.

After hitting a historical low of 1.47 children born per female, the total fertility rate of the EU started to increase again, to reach a level of 1.60 in 2008.

The increasingly dynamic environment in which UNDP operates resulted in fluctuations within each major expenditure category.

A great deal of the sustained attention and achievements at national level have been due to their advocacy and monitoring efforts.

The State of Kuwait welcomes the steady increase in the number of parties to the Convention, which has now reached 149.

Costa Rica had an abundant supply of water. However, the treatment of all wastewater remained a challenge, which was compounded by population growth and concentration in the major cities.

Western economists typically favor gradual tax increases Jeffrey Frankel, for example, recommends a pre announced plan to increase the tax rate by, say, one percentage point annually for five years.

The state's unemployment rate fell from 9.7 percent in October 1983 to 7.2 percent in October 1987 according to the administration's own figures, they created a net increase of 73,000 jobs in the state during Collins' tenure.

Also surprising is the increase in Argentina s domestic savings rate, which has enabled self financing of investment which has doubled and, paradoxically, capital outflows.

The decline in world cocoa prices, combined with increased prices for imports, had depressed incomes and living standards in the country, which also had a high per capita debt and a high rate of extreme poverty.

A likely reason for the fall in the saving rate and resulting rise in consumer spending was the sharp increase in the stock market, which rose by 15 between August and the end of the year.

An increase in the corporate tax rate appeals to many US voters who believe that corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes and are worried about widening income inequality.

But the rate of increase in payroll employment fell in March to less than half of the rate recorded in previous months, and the number of workers claiming unemployment benefits recently jumped to a four month high.