Despite the halting pace of reform and signs of slowing GDP growth today, Slovenians now enjoy the highest per capita income of all the transition economies of central Europe.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite repeated German counterattacks slowing its advance, the 1st Infantry Division was able to capture the high ground surrounding the city.

Despite this, the southern attack was slowing.

Despite slowing off a little after the summer break, Tromsø nevertheless confirmed their status as one of the best teams in the Norwegian Premier League that season.

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth.

Despite the global financial crisis, the South Korean economy, helped by timely stimulus measures and strong domestic consumption of products that compensated for a drop in exports, was able to avoid a recession unlike most industrialized economies, posting positive economic growth for two consecutive years of the crisis.

Despite concerns raised about its possible contribution to global warming, comparisons between urban and rural areas show that the urban heat island effects have little influence on global mean temperature trends.

" Despite the findings of chronic, global cognitive deficits in post-ECT patients, MacQueen and colleagues suggest that it is " unlikely that such findings, even if confirmed, would significantly change the risk – benefit ratio of this notably effective treatment.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

Despite its short atmospheric half life of 7 years, methane has a global warming potential of 62 over 20 years and 21 over 100 years ( IPCC, 1996 ; Berner and Berner, 1996 ; vanLoon and Duffy, 2000 ).

Despite being a relatively small company by global motorcycling standards, Aprilia is very active in motorcycle sports.

Despite global warming and a consequently greater predicted rate of sea level rise recent analysis extended the working life of the barrier until around 2060 – 2070.

Despite the exhibitions, history, number of artists and global sweep of the artistamp movement, the medium had long been ignored by major institutions and derided by the arts establishment: before his death in 1989, Bidner attempted to donate his definitive collection to several major Canadian institutions but was turned down by every one.

Despite its size and global presence BASF has received relatively little public attention since abandoning its consumer product lines in the 90s.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite a year of global economic challenges and natural disasters in 2010-2011, Australia's tourism growth was supported by increased consumption ( up 4. 4 % over the previous year, largely due to an increase in the number of visitors from overseas.

Despite various interpretations of this term, it is primarily associated with the ideological notion of global governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve.

" Despite that, at the ongoing Doha round of trade talks for the World Trade Organization, discussion includes the prospect of competition law enforcement moving up to a global level.

Despite this finding, there was immense political and social pressure on James Hardie to negotiate a compensation deal ; governments were boycotting James Hardie products and unions were threatening to instigate a global union movement against the company based on a black ban of James Hardie products.

Despite its small population and geographic size, Lebanon plays an influential role in the production of information in the Arab world and is " at the core of a regional media network with global implications ".

Despite global recognition of the importance these areas, many mountain communities continue to live in poverty.

Despite ever-increasing global interaction and a growing human capacity for both good and evil, the fundamentals of human character and human needs remain much the same.

Despite being a work of fiction, the book has found use by global warming skeptics.

Despite tremendous success since the race's inception in 1976, and the observable impact of the global exposure it brought to the city, the organizers believed that the less expensive and more popular ( in the United States at least ) CART championship, dominated by American drivers, would be a more promising investment.

Despite this, the policy keeps inflation low, encourages foreign investment, and maintains the currency's role in the global financial system.

Despite its interest in foreign investment to diversify the economy, the Bahamian Government responds to local concerns about foreign competition and tends to protect Bahamian business and labor interests.

Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Despite this comment, Samuelson spent the last 50 years of his life obsessed with the problems of capital theory identified by Hayek and Böhm-Bawerk, and Samuelson flatly judged Hayek to have been right and his own teacher, Joseph Schumpeter, to have been wrong on the central economic question of the 20th century, the feasibility of socialist economic planning in a production goods dominated economy.

Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation.

Despite this, in 2008 Georgia economy grew by 2. 3 %.

Despite the political situation, the economy of Albania grew at an estimated 5 % in 2007.

Despite these important achievements, the country's economy today suffers from many and relevant problems.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

Despite improvements on the economy the Republic of Moldova remains Europe's poorest nation.

Despite current currency problems, Burmese economy is expected to grow by about 8. 8 % in 2011.

Despite its rapid growth, the Paraguayan economy became increasingly dependent on soybeans and cotton for exports and overall economic dynamism.

Despite some increases in heavy industry in the economy during the 1970s and 1980s, Paraguayan industry was generally small-scale.

Despite social and political unrest, the economy continued to flourish under the authoritarian rule with the export-based industrialization policy.

Despite the South Korean economy's high growth potential and apparent structural stability, South Korea suffers perpetual damage to its credit rating in the stock market due to the belligerence of North Korea in times of deep military crises, which has an adverse effect on the financial markets of the South Korean economy.

Despite such ideas, which represented the point of view of a faction of the government, the Sandinista government remained officially committed to a mixed economy.

Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world.

Despite Birmingham's powerful industrial growth and its contributions to the state economy, its citizens, and those of other newly developing areas, were underrepresented in the state legislature for years.

Despite this, Bermuda's 17th Century agricultural economy did not become dependent on slavery as, unlike in the plantation economies that developed in English colonies in the southeast region of North America and in the West Indies, the system of indentured servitude, which lasted in Bermuda until 1684, ensured a large supply of cheap labour.

Despite being a strong proponent of a liberal, free-market economy.

Despite hurting the economy as a whole, the bill did help America begin to industrialize as no British manufactured goods could be imported and had to be instead produced domestically.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Despite the financial obstacles, the economy of Entre Ríos has grew to a size near that of Buenos Aires, with the decline of saladeros and the growth of wool production.