Drastic price drop causes shortage instead of massive surplus.

The engineering and technical universities have been especially affected by this slump in interest.

The conflict in Georgia has been followed by a sharp decline in investor confidence.

The impact of a sharp decline in real estate prices would be far reaching.

The erosion in public support for Bush s Iraq policy is stark.

China and Hong Kong have seen prices plummet recently too.

The sharp fall in long term rates induced investors to buy equities, driving up share prices.

The sharp fall in export income is rapidly changing the situation, but Russia is starting from a comfortable position.

Real indices of their per capita national income reflect a sharp decline in living standards.

The collapse of commodity prices had eroded development efforts.

Total waste generation in EECCA and SEE countries is high, mostly because of large scale resource extraction and processing.

The collapse in GDP in the first quarter of 2009 was also more substantial than previously thought.

It was at that very time that the sudden economic decline began, causing discontent.

Because of agricultural subsidy policies, however, cotton prices had been plummeting.

An almost inevitable consequence of the transition in the East was a sharp decline in this volume of assistance.

The use of these safeguard clauses is limited to the year in which the imports surge or the price drop occurs.

Moreover, the sharpest decline occurred more than four decades ago, in the late 1960 s and early 1970 s.

The steep decline in 1991 was reversed in 1992 as contributions shot up by 18 per cent.

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Weak economic performance in these countries is even more puzzling in view of the sharp drop in their birthrates decades ago. Their population pyramids are now skewed towards middle aged people who are in their most productive years and relatively free from the burden of raising children.

The effects of fiscal austerity a sharp rise in taxes and a sharp fall in government spending since the beginning of the year are undermining economic performance even more.

Most Americans do not suffer greatly from the dollar's sharp fall, as foreign sellers have to make price adjustments for the US market.

Weak economic performance in these countries is even more puzzling in view of the sharp drop in their birthrates decades ago.

As discussed below, much of this sharp fall was in trade with countries that had earlier had special relationships with the Soviet Union.

LONDON Europe s emerging markets have this year experienced their worst output collapse since the great transitional recession that followed the end of communism.

WASHINGTON, DC The sharp drop in the price of crude oil since late June has been grabbing headlines worldwide and producing a lot of contradictory explanations.

The current instability of global commodity markets and the sharp drop in commodity prices was thus a source of grave concern to those countries.

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So, despite the sharp drop that made headlines recently, Chinese shares are up more than 30 from a year ago.

The situation was exacerbated by Rwanda apos s already precarious economic condition, overpopulation and rapidly declining agricultural production.

Emerging markets currencies also collapsed, even in economies with huge foreign exchange reserves and relatively little debt.

Most importantly, a disruptive decline of the US dollar (or a disruptive appreciation of the Chinese renminbi) could hinder not only China s growth, but also global recovery.

Thus, the sharp fall in the crude oil price from about 110 last year to around 60 today is yielding hundreds of billions of dollars in savings for oil importers.

Bringing Down the Wall

The Fall of France

The Fallen Pharaoh

The Falling Dollar

The Fall of Netanyahu?

The case of Spain

Dropping Demand

Freefall

Free Fall

Long Drop

Delayed Drop