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Competition authorities should be the “firemen” of the economic policy during times of recession.

Elsewhere in Europe the proponents of the patent system also largely won the argument, just as the free trade movement waned in the face of the Great Depression in Europe.

MASERU, Lesotho, 16 November 2011 -The tremors of the global economic slow-down have reached Matiisetso Ntlale’s granary in the mountains of Lesotho.

In Latin America, artisanal and small-scale mining usually occurs in fragile ecosystems that are frequently characterized by a depressed, primary and underdeveloped economy, by class and “caste” social structure, and by cultural and biological diversity.

She visited the US in 1936, touring the country and documenting in her photo reports the mass unemployment and widespread misery in the aftermath of the Great Depression.

Bearing in mind the worst financial and economic crises since the Great Depression, which still remain, and recognizing their continuing severe impact on developing countries, particularly the least developed, and also being deeply worried about additional negative impacts as part of the second wave of the crisis, which is happening now but also poses a serious threat to developing countries for years to come, we recommend holding a follow-up conference on the financial and economic crises and its impact on development in 2012.

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These mechanisms would include coordinated countercyclical policies to mitigate boom-bust cycles, as well as financial regulatory coordination to minimize and contain economic and financial crises and financial volatility.

For the first time in the history of the world economy, most developing countries continued to grow while many developed countries fell into what some analysts have dubbed the “great recession”.

Even in Latvia, which has been the hardest hit economy in the region, the economic decline, which is forecast to be about minus 27 per cent of GDP over the period 2007-2010 is only about one half of what it experienced during the 1990s; nevertheless its economic decline has been large as it is roughly similar to the economic decline experienced by the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s (which was -29 per cent).

The national CFC consumption targets for 2005 and 2006 were met partly because of depression of economic activity due to the prevailing circumstances, and partly because of the conversion of non-eligible enterprises.

Competition law should not be relaxed during times of economic troubles; competition regimes should have the capacity to cater for the additional pressures brought about by a recession.

A number of manufacturing sectors in which developing countries had extant or potential comparative advantage were also being affected, as demand from the United States and Europe stagnated and other developing countries’ engines were unable to pick up the slack.

The expert meeting reviewed commodity boom-and-bust cycles as well as longstanding issues facing commodity-exporting developing and emerging countries.

Global Aerospace and Defense industry sluggish in 2011.

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While global market conditions are expected to remain uneven and generally sluggish in the near term, a strong technology position and cost structure has prepared this business for a difficult global environment.