The Grim Outlook

Global Malaise in 2006?

Jamaica, Trinidad Tobago Economic Outlook Global Voices

A bleaker prospect is not to be found in economics.

Of course, the outlook need not be so bleak.

This is such a dismal prospect that it must not be allowed to happen.

Without the eradication of this scourge, the prospect for human development will remain bleak.

The new Middle East bodes poorly for the coming year.

But the sombre economic and financial prospects of the two countries could pour cold water on their ambitions.

Otherwise, prospects for an outcome that leaves Syria intact and viable will only become bleaker.

The prospect that now faces Angola is more grave than ever.

Prospects for progress are bleaker now than at any time this year.

Europe s increasingly gloomy prospects make these reforms more necessary than ever.

A permanent focus on the past condemns Cyprus to a bleak future.

Keeping those promises despite America s gloomy economic prospects will not be easy.

It is right to expect that in the next few years 5 of the 17 to 18 million office jobs in Europe will be lost through automation alone.

If not, the short term prospects for America, and the world, are bleak.

But if policymakers fail to complete unfinished business, the prognosis will be bleak.

Economic hardship combined with threats of terrorism paint a gloomy outlook for much of the country.

In response to the poor outlook at home, two of Tanner's three siblings are already taking their chances abroad.

And yet, without America and its power, the prospects in all these places are still bleaker more dangers and more chaos.

The Board was concerned that the development outlook of most LDCs remained sombre.

However tough things looked in the past, I have never felt such a sense of despair about Palestine and Israel.

The outlook for recovery and growth in the short term will likely remain bleak for the African continent.

Ironically, however, such a grim prospect would not mean the end of globalization, defined as the increase in worldwide networks of interdependence.

Growth prospects are even worse, as innovation hits gale force headwinds.

Despite the apparently pessimistic outlook, however, it was important to remain objective and positive, where possible.

I must cut my expenses to the bone... to the very bone.

TEL AVIV Twenty years after the Oslo Accords, the prospects for a comprehensive Israeli Palestinian peace deal are dimmer than ever.

If one considers the strategic ambitions of the separatists and their Russian patrons, Ukraine's prospects are even bleaker.

But it is now widely recognized that such changes are a response to dim prospects of real progress toward peace.

Unless the authorities embrace a growth strategy and do so quickly the eurozone s prospects will become increasingly bleak.

Concurrently, new claims on external financial resources are being made, so that allocations for future aid can further cloud the outlook for multilateral aid.

High oil prices are set to dampen economic performance in the rest of the world as well, although growth prospects look better than in the US.

Without such protection, the future of minorities and the prospects of peace and security in the region looked very bleak.

2.1 This year's AGS was published in a difficult context, with bleak employment and growth forecasts.

3.1 This year's AGS was published in a difficult context, with bleak employment and growth forecasts.

But let s put these grim prospects aside, and ponder what a civilized solution to the problem of technology driven unemployment would look like.

Consequently, the civilian population has been caught between the grim prospects of being displaced and uprooted, on the one hand, or remaining in a state of uncertainty, on the other, each of which is an infinitely difficult choice to make.

But for the moment we want to begin primarily be enabling the citizens of Europe, all citizens, not just those who have the privilege to be employed today, to participate in phases of paid educational leave.

In the euro zone and Japan, the outlook for 2009 and 2010 is even worse, with growth close to zero even next year.

The economy continues, however, on its downward trend and the outlook remains bleak as infrastructure continues to deteriorate and fall into disrepair.

Excluded and facing bleak life prospects, young people, in particular, often experience anomie and may turn to anti social behavior, including violence.

The outlook is, alas, even a trifle more sombre when we look at the White Paper itself, which is the subject of the Commission's present report.

In view of the rather dim prospects of success, I do not think it would be a wise move to burden the Intergovernmental Conference with another complex and controversial topic.