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[...] [...] analysts have dubbed the “great recession”.

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

Thirdly, we must prevent a further outbreak of protectionism and we must conclude Doha, as history will condemn us if we repeat the job-destroying protectionism of the 1930s that transformed a financial crisis into a fullblown depression.

The responsible attitude of many Governments, within the Group of 20 and beyond, prevented the financial turbulence of 2008 from escalating into an economic crisis similar to the Great Depression of 1929.

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.

This assessment comes at a time when the global [...] [...]

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.

These include the return of food and fuel crises that are threatening hard-won development gains, sluggish recovery in the advanced economies and a deluge of short-term capital flows that in turn is leading to volatility in capital markets, the build-up of asset bubbles and the appreciation of exchange rates.

Fortunately, the action taken by many of us present here, at both the national and the international levels, has helped to stabilize the financial markets, to stimulate recovery and, importantly, to avoid the risk of depression.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Mrs. Scherer’s self-published memoir, To Be a Pilgrim, grants a glimpse into her early years when she endured real difficulties: the often lonely existence of a child of foreign missionaries, the daily realities of China’s long struggles with war and poverty, the hard living in the U.S. during the Great Depression, the gruesome slaughter of the Sino-Japanese war, the rigors of tackling the Johns Hopkins nursing curriculum whilst recovering from a near-fatal illness, and rebuilding Xiangya in the face of uncertainty and poverty in Changsha after WWII.

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.

[...] [...] Goals (MDGs) at a very critical time, when the world economy continues [...]

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.