PARIS The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.

Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world.

At some point, the world economy will begin expanding rapidly again.

Torrential downpours caused the water level to rise rapidly on Thursday, September 12, 2013.

This line of thinking led governments to believe that Arabs would not demonstrate in large numbers and demand change. In each country, rapid reform was seen as detrimental to national interests.

In each country, rapid reform was seen as detrimental to national interests.

But the operative word is might a headlong plunge into the abyss might prove equally likely.

That is why, for example, so many keep assuming that a normal rapid recovery is just around the corner.

But she was a strong believer in the expansion of private markets, and was instinctively suspicious of government intervention.

This runaway train global economy has all the hallmarks of a giant crisis in the making financial, political, and economic.

On August 29, the Russian market continued its precipitous decline, however, this time around, there was no sign of panic.

The forces of globalization that were liberated by the fall of Communism have created a better world, with rapid economic convergence and shrinking inequality.

People seemed to think that rapid appreciation in these markets had become a universal constant, like the speed of light.

But China s soaring growth, seen in contrast with stagnation in Latin America s economies, has awakened governments and businessmen across the region.

However, with the German and US economies slowing precipitously, the ECB would have a perfect cover for its interest rate moves.

Mounting debt also leaves the US vulnerable to the decisions of those who lend it money or to the vagaries of the market.

On September 11, 1986, the Dow dropped 4.6 , the steepest one day decline since May 28, 1962.

Data from the 2000 census show a soaring Hispanic population, owing largely to waves of new immigrants, legal and illegal.

After its enactment in late February 2009, the markets downward plunge began to decelerate, and prices stabilized the following month.

What effect can the rapid development of social networks, the growth of the number of users, and the strengthening of their capacity for social impact and mobilisation have, and when?

Second, Krugman s claim that a vastly larger fiscal stimulus would have generated a more rapid economic recovery in the US depends entirely on conjecture. But the macroeconomic model on which he bases his claim can hardly be called reliable, given its manifest failures to predict either the crisis or the euro s survival.

The North American Free Trade Agreement, for example, probably contributed to Mexico's strong and lasting recovery from the Tequila crisis.

Second, Krugman s claim that a vastly larger fiscal stimulus would have generated a more rapid economic recovery in the US depends entirely on conjecture.

Is it sustained economic decline, high and long term unemployment, poverty, rampant inflation, a precipitous fall in the exchange rate, fiscal deficits, high borrowing costs, and political dysfunction?

It is now time for the new administration to tackle the more pressing issues plaguing the island, such as the alarming poverty rate among the most disenfranchised citizens and the rapidly deteriorating ecological system.

Using computers, even though they're getting faster and better all the time, it's a challenge to deal with gigabytes of data, terabytes of data and extracting the relevant information.

CAMBRIDGE China s rise has raised many questions for the West, with some wondering whether it is set to usurp a struggling Europe s global leadership role.

After the common currency s first decade, however, increased divergence, rather than rapid convergence, has become the norm within the euro area, and tensions can be expected to increase further.

Kumar heads the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a judicial authority established in 2010, in order to stop the rapid pollution of the environment that has accompanied the explosive economic growth of the past decades.

Sputnik, the Russian world for satellite, is a great way to brand a Russian media product, as it sounds familiar, warm, swift and romantic, said Kiselev.

In Germany, fertility has remained below 1.5 children per woman since 1975, while the World Bank notes that the East Asia and Pacific region is aging faster than any other region.

But, in the developing world, it is just the opposite a decline in exports, reduced remittances, lower foreign direct investment, and precipitous falls in capital flows have led to economic weakening.

This raises the question of whether Japan s current problems sluggish growth, high public debt, and rapid population aging presage a similar trend across East Asia.

A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.

But now that competition has intensified, as it encompasses virtually all of Asia, where growing populations and rapid economic development over the last three decades have generated an insatiable appetite for severely limited supplies of key commodities.

With India's rapid development, however, the country's social fabric is changing. More and more Indians are living in smaller family units, and younger people are migrating in search of better opportunities.

This will please oil producers in other parts of the world, but will have enormously adverse consequences for the global economy, akin to those resulting from the oil price hikes in 1973.

It is asking how it can preserve its traditional equality and foster its unique cultural heritage. And it is asking how individuals can maintain their psychological stability in an era of rapid change, marked by urbanization and an onslaught of global communication in a society that had no televisions until a decade ago.

And it is asking how individuals can maintain their psychological stability in an era of rapid change, marked by urbanization and an onslaught of global communication in a society that had no televisions until a decade ago.

Aware that the rapid development of the life sciences opens up tremendous prospects for the improvement of the health of individuals and mankind as a whole, but also that certain practices pose potential dangers to the integrity and dignity of the individual,

By the time the exchange closed at 7 00 GMT that Tuesday, the Shanghai Composite Index had fallen 8.8 for the day the biggest one day fall in China in ten years.