Search

APPENDIX TABLE 1 Countries and territories by region and reasons for which abortion is legally permitted, 2008 Reasons Developed world Developing world Africa Prohibited Andorra Angola altogether, or no Malta [...]

Today, as throughout history, women in every region of the world sometimes choose to end unwanted pregnancies by abortion. They take this step even when pregnancy termination is against the [...]

Global estimates by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute indicate that the annual proportion of women of childbearing age who ended a pregnancy declined between 1995 and 2003 [...]

Table 43. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Saving (Percent of GDP) Averages 1985-92 1993-2000 2001 World Saving 22.8 22.1 21.2 Investment 23.5 22.5 21.4 Advanced economies Saving 22.3 [...]

Table 37. Summary of External Debt and Debt Service 1999 2000 2001 Billions of U.S. dollars External debt Other emerging market and developing countries 2,453.0 2,357.6 2,379.4 Regional groups Africa [...]

Table 25. Summary of Payments Balances on Current Account (Billions of U.S. dollars) 1999 2000 2001 2002 Advanced economies -114.2 -267.9 -213.0 -229.0 United States -299.8 -415.2 -389.0 -472.4 Euro [...]

The legal and regulatory environment for DRM is bounded by a number of international treaties, national laws and regulations and an emerging body of case law. International copyright protection At [...]

Digital Cinema stands and falls with the ready availability of first-run content. So far, there has been a distinct lack of feature films to play in digital in the few [...]

Introduction This chapter deals with digital cinema technology and associated standards from an investment perspective. As such, it is not an examination of the various hard ware and software solutions, [...]

There are approximately 160 cinema screens worldwide converted to high-end digital cinema presentation capability. This is equivalent to just over one-eighth of one per cent of all first-run cinema screens [...]

History * Cinema, as opposed to film as a capture medium, has gone through several technological and business changes in its 100+ years of existence, although it remains an inherently [...]

World Economic Outlook, Executive Board Meeting, April 2, 19991 Directors concurred that, while the global economic slowdown is likely to continue in 1999, the risk of a global recession had [...]

Since the finalization of the May 1998 World Economic Outlook, the recessions in the east Asian emerging market economies suffering from financial crisis and in Japan have deepened. And the [...]

The inflationary process in many developing and transition countries differs from that in the industrial countries because of the larger role of fiscal deficits, which in turn partly reflects the [...]

The causes of capital inflows can be usefully grouped into three major categories: autonomous increases in the domestic demand for money; increases in the domestic productivity of capital; and external [...]

The sum of current account balances (covering countries and international organizations) should in principle be zero for the world as a whole. But this is not true in practice for [...]

Global oil production stood at 66.9 million barrels a day (mbd) in 1990, increased to 70 mbd in 1995, and is projected to reach about 72.8 mbd in 1996. Although [...]

Given the strong beneficial effects of investment on growth, a challenge for policy in the transition countries is to ensure the availability of resources necessary to finance investment. Fiscal policy [...]

Sustained inflation is a relatively modern phenomenon. Until World War I, the international experience was one of long-run stability of prices: average prices essentially fluctuated around a stationary level, with [...]

Many developing countries lagging behind the emerging market countries have improved their economic performance markedly in recent years on the basis of strong adjustment and reform programs. These include a [...]

The medium-term scenario shown in Table 18 assumes, in particular, that the stabilization and reform programs of the transition countries will be fully implemented. It is unclear, however, whether these [...]

The substantial increase in net private capital flows to developing countries since the late 1980s has been distributed very unevenly in absolute terms among different countries and regions, but much [...]

Traditionally monetary policy has been seen as influencing an economy in the short run, mainly through cost of capital effects - essentially the effects of changes in short-term interest rates [...]

Another key policy challenge for industrial countries is the promotion of high employment. The maintenance of high levels of employment is a primary objective of economic policy in all countries [...]

Banking sector difficulties also may influence the transmission of monetary policy and therefore need to be taken into account. Several factors seem to underlie banking problems in the industrial countries, [...]

In 1995, economic growth slowed in most of the industrial countries, with Japan, Italy, and some of the smaller European countries being the most notable exceptions (Table 2). Since late [...]

Divergent cyclical developments and evolving prospects for fiscal consolidation have both been reflected in developments in industrial countries' financial markets in 1996. Short-term interest rates have declined significantly further since [...]

In the industrial countries, there are promising signs that economic activity will turn out to be stronger in 1997 than during the past year, when growth slowed sharply in many [...]

In the developing countries, output increased by about 6 percent in 1995, continuing the solid expansion that has been under way since the beginning of the decade, and the average [...]

In 1995, world economic growth weakened slightly to 3 1/2 percent, which is marginally below both its long-term trend rate and the projection published in the October 1995 World Economic [...]

World economic growth has continued, on average, at a satisfactory pace, supported in particular by buoyant growth in many emerging market countries. However, growth slowed more markedly than expected during [...]

Robust growth in developing countries in recent years has been associated with increasing openness and greater integration into the global economy (Chart 18). Traditional trade linkages have been deepened and [...]

Developments in financial markets during the past eighteen months and signs of a softening of growth in the industrial countries since the beginning of 1995 have highlighted the sensitivity of [...]

For the first time since the late 1980s, recorded output is growing in most countries in transition. In some, such as Albania, Poland, and Slovenia, real GDP has already surged [...]

Bond yields and exchange rates have posted relatively large movements over the past year and a half. During 1994, long-term interest rates rose between 175 and 500 basis points across [...]

Underlying trends in the world economy are encouraging in many respects [ILLUSTRATION FOR CHART 1 OMITTED], with economic policies contributing importantly to the favorable performance and prospects of most countries. [...]

INTRODUCTION The OECD routinely maintains a system of business cycle indicators pertaining to 22 of its Member countries (Nilsson, 1987). This system, which is in the line of analysis established [...]

The Final Act of the Uruguay Round agreement was signed in April 1994 and will become effective in 1995 after ratification by national legislatures. The Uruguay Round will substantially reduce [...]

The outlook for global growth in 1993 and 1994 is little changed from the projections presented in the May 1993 World Economic Outlook. Weaker-than-expected activity in the industrial countries is [...]

The medium-term projections in the World Economic Outlook are conditional on several technical assumptions and are therefore not necessarily forecasts of the most likely outcomes. These assumptions include unchanged fiscal [...]

This year marks the fourth consecutive year of sub-par growth performance for the world economy, and indications of a resumption of stronger growth in 1994 are still tentative. The uncertainty [...]

During the past two decades there have been wide disparities in the pace of economic growth among developing countries. Differences in the external environment account for some of these divergences, [...]

Previous issues of the World Economic Outlook have examined the consequences of asset price inflation and deflation for private sector financial positions and for the business cycle. Asset price inflation [...]

economic objec- tives in the EC 1 For the United States, Federal Reserve Act, Section 2A, 1913 and subsequent amendments; for Japan, Bank of Japan Act of 1942, Law No. [...]

The dismantling of trade barriers among the industrial countries in the 1950s and 1960s contributed to a period of unprecedented world economic growth. In the 1970s and the 1980s, an [...]

The growth of regional trading arrangements in the postwar period, on balance, has been accompanied by multilateral and unilateral reductions in trade barriers, which may have helped pave the way [...]

The countries in transition--the former centrally planned economies of central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia--have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, economic reforms on an unprecedented [...]

The medium-term projections in the World Economic Outlook are conditional on several technical assumptions and thus are not necessarily forecasts of most likely outcomes. These assumptions include unchanged policies, except [...]

The recovery of global economic activity after the 1991 downturn remains hesitant and uneven. Although some industrial countries have emerged from recession, growth has declined sharply in many other countries [...]

Following two years of slow economic growth, the recovery for the world economy in 1993 is projected to be sluggish. A protracted slowdown in Europe and an unexpectedly sharp weakening [...]