Armenia's financial system is not integrated into the global network.

Generally speaking, protesters believe that the global financial institutions and agreements undermine local decision-making methods.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

After a decade of impressive growth rates, Chile began to experience a moderate economic downturn in 1999, brought on by unfavorable global economic conditions related to the Asian financial crisis, which began in 1997.

However, by 2009, it has been reported that $ 21 billion had been lost from the pension system to the global financial crisis.

Faced with an international economic downturn the government announced a $ 4 billion economic stimulus plan to spur employment and growth, and despite the global financial crisis, aimed for an expansion of between 2 percent and 3 percent of GDP for 2009.

* Business leaders which include successful entrepreneurs, financially successful investors, and top level CEO's of major corporations that regularly dominate the global business scene, top the daily business headlines and coverage of financial markets have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

While early initiatives in the Colombian peace process gave reason for optimism, the Pastrana administration also has had to combat high unemployment and other economic problems, such as the fiscal deficit and the impact of global financial instability on Colombia.

Cantor Fitzgerald L. P. is a global financial services firm specializing in bond trading.

PostgreSQL is often used for global mission critical applications ( the. org and. info domain name registries use it as their primary data store, as do many large companies and financial institutions ).

Egypt faced the long term supply-and demand-side repercussions of the global financial crisis on the national economy.

Generation Flux is a neologism and psychographic ( not demographic ) designation coined by Fast Company for American employees who need to make several changes in career throughout their working lives due to the chaotic nature of the job market following the 2008 – 2012 global financial crisis.

Due to reforms and liberalization of economy policy Georgia shows exceptional resilience to external shocks – Russian invasion in 2008 and global financial crisis.

In his June 2009, budget speech, Chief Minister Peter Caruana noted that Gibraltar's economy remains in good shape and Government finances remain healthy, solid, stable and robust, despite global economic and financial turmoil.

Colom stated that the situation is the combined result of a number of factors, including a severe drought and global warming, which have reduced the domestic food supply, and the Global financial crisis, which has reduced Guatemala's ability to import food.

Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and worldwide centre for diplomacy and the most important UN international co-operation centre with New York thanks to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.

The economy, governed under positive non-interventionism, is highly dependent on international trade and finance and in 2009 the real economic growth fell by 2. 8 % as a result of the global financial turmoil.

The Information Security Forum is a global nonprofit organization of several hundred leading organizations in financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, consumer goods, government, and other areas.

The global insurance industry was sufficiently capitalised to withstand the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 and most insurance companies restored their capital to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2010.

* International Monetary Fund, the international organization that oversees the global financial system

The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.

Jordan has a developed banking sector that attracts investors due to conservative bank policies that enabled the country to weather the global financial crisis of 2009.

The Group also has strategic interests in other entities, among them a 20 % stake in global financial adviser, Rothschilds Continuation Holdings.

A global strategy to stem the crisis has been released in the form of the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan.

The global economic crisis has had less impact on imports because the sector is more diversified than exports.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

In 2010, the value of the Armenian Dram ( AMD ) was artificially kept high during the height of the global economic crisis.

As of 2009, construction has been postponed indefinitely due to the global economic crisis.

During the course of 2009, the grim forecasts for the effects of the global crisis on the Bulgarian economy largely materialized.

This reflected the exposure of Cyprus to the global recession and European sovereign debt crisis.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

* Observer 24 April 2005 Seabed supplies a cure for global warming crisis

The crisis was precipitated by a number of external shocks, including the El Niño weather phenomenon in 1997, a sharp drop in global oil prices in 1997-98, and international emerging market instability in 1997-98.

The advent of the global financial crisis in 2008 has caused a resurgence in Keynesian thought.

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

Although Macau was hit hard by the 1997 – 98 Asian financial crisis and the global downturn in 2001, its economy grew approximately 13. 1 % annually on average between 2001 and 2006.

The global crisis had little impact on the country due to Macedonian banks ' stringent rules.

In January 2012, Romania started the first large national protests since ' 89, motivated by the global economical crisis of that time and as an answer to the crisis situations and unrest in Europe of 2000s.

Although the use of global sources in the supply chain of organizations can be traced back several decades ( e. g., in the oil industry ), it was not until the late 1980s that a considerable number of organizations started to integrate global sources into their core business.

In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.

It was a century that started with horses, simple automobiles, and freighters but ended with high-speed rail, cruise ships, global commercial air travel and the space shuttle.

While the columns started out as lighthearted domestic scenes where the outside world barely intruded, the approach of World War II slowly brought darker global concerns into Mrs. Miniver's world.

The strength in the Dow occurred despite a brief recession in 1949 and other global conflicts which started a short time later including the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, the Greek Civil War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

But as countries started to mandate seat belt restraints the global auto industry invested in the tooling and standardized exclusively on seat belts, and ignored other restraint designs such as air bags for several decades

The global recession of 1998, which started with the Asian financial crisis in July 1997, exacerbated Russia's economic crisis.

The " Fifth Beatle " claims started appearing in the press immediately upon the band's sensational rise to global fame in 1963 – 1964 as the most famous quartet in pop culture.

As 1970s progressed, global companies started to recognise Barbados for its highly educated population.

A novel global DEM of postings lower than 12 m and a height accuracy of less than 2 m is expected being generated by the TanDEM-X satellite mission which started in July 2010.

In 2008 Sustainable Bungay became Suffolk's first Transition Town and part of a global network of communities that have started up projects in the areas of food, transport, energy, education, housing, waste, arts etc.

IMMAP started from the basic premise that implementing organizations, national authorities and donor governments needed to be able to define the global landmine problem's physical, social and economic dimensions as a prerequisite for effective planning, resource allocation and advocacy.

After the referendum on independence on August 30, 1999, East Timor became an independent nation on May 20 2002 and it has started initiating foreign relations with the rest of the global community.

In 2011, the Forum started a global network of people between the ages of 20 and 30 who have shown great potential for future leadership roles in society.

The need for global guides to birds became more relevant and one of the biggest projects that began was the " Handbook of the Birds of the World " which started in the 1990s with Josep del Hoyo a country doctor in Catalonia, Jordi Sargatal and ornithologist Andy Elliott.

The Beatles influence on rock music and popular culture was, and remains, immense. Their commercial success started an almost immediate wave of changes — including a shift from US global dominance of rock and roll to UK acts, from soloists to groups, from professional songwriters to self-penned songs, and to changes in fashion.

These protests are said to be the biggest global peace protests before a war actually started ; the peace movement is compared with the movement caused by the Vietnam War.

This period of the Cold War saw an increase in the Agency's global, anti-Soviet activities, which is started under the Carter Doctrine in late 1980.

The global ocean of Mirovia, an ocean that surrounded Rodinia, started to shrink because the Pan-African ocean and Panthalassa were expanding.

Beyond the Limits is a 1992 book continuing the modeling of the consequences of a rapidly growing global population that was started in Limits to Growth.

In the recent past, countries such as Mexico, Indonesia, Vietnam and certain Caribbean countries have started to supply to the global market in large scale.

The 2007 season in Major League Soccer started with news that global icon David Beckham signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy.