It also said private lenders continued to pour money in despite evidence of mounting problems following the onset of recession in 1998.
The Office for National Statistics said this was "largely due" to a decline in the number of foreign students despite an increase in the number of arrivals from China - the UK's largest overseas student market.
In light of the linkages between freedom of information and women's rights, the African panelists participating in the roundtable expressed concern for the low involvement of women organizations in processes to advance freedom of information in the region, despite the potential advantages of better information flows for their advocacy work.
They also state that HRT should not be the first treatment of choice for the long-term prevention of osteoporosis in women over the age of 50, despite the success of the drug in treating the condition.
Moscow offered Wednesday to airlift out 816 Russians and citizens of ex-Soviet states working in Iraq despite the safe release of Russian and Ukrainian hostages in Baghdad.
Its market share declined from 48% in 2008 to 43% in 2009 despite the release of CS 4 in October 2008, since it lacked compelling features for the users to upgrade their software.
One difficulty in resolving these arguments is that historians know little about the experience of slavery in Brazil, despite it being one of the country's most-researched subjects.
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And Virginia and Tennessee and Maryland cannot get in, despite all in the range of 20-win seasons and victories against some of the best teams in America.
Geoff Barton, of King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds, said he had seen a drop of about 10% in results despite last week seeing some of the best A-level results in the county.
Despite its reputation as the global capital of Mammon, and despite its image in much of America as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, New York remains a remarkably religious city.
Mr Bush won in 2004 despite being one of the most divisive presidents in American history.
In Wales, despite the loss of jobs in mining and other traditional industries, there was record inward investment.
So why are we still seeing such an underrepresentation of diversity in gaming, despite a diversity of gamers?
And two decades ago international audiences embraced Twin Peaks in huge numbers despite its lack of urgency in revealing Laura Palmer's murderer.
The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says Okah may no longer be a headache for the Nigerian authorities but the threat of instability in the Niger Delta remains strong, despite a fall in the levels of violence since a 2009 amnesty.
If that proves impossible then governments will have to step in despite the unpopularity of being seen to further bail out banks.
And they thought they had taken the lead after 10 minutes when Blackstock's header looked as though it may have gone in despite the efforts of Dean Kiely.
Most of the increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, can be attributed to a jump in prices excluding food and energy prices, despite seeing gains in both of those categories.
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What few pods were built above the Arctic Circle, in the Inuit town of Kangiqsujuaq, remain in use today, despite almost 30 years of unforgiving weather.
In his term of office the UK Treasury adopted a laissez-faire energy policy which has left the UK with one of the lowest shares of renewable energy in Europe, despite having one of the best potentials for renewable power.
The army is also putting high-velocity missile batteries on the roofs of some apartment buildings in London, despite the objections of some residents.
In football, the Mountaineers were 7-6 overall and 4-5 in league play despite having one of the best quarterbacks in the country in senior Geno Smith.
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The slide in the price of gold despite recent financial turmoil in East Asia and tensions in Iraq suggest that it is no longer seen as a safe haven.
Europe's war games are a far cry from those in America, where governments have heard scarcely a squeak of pain, despite the halving of employment in defence, to 2m, over the past decade.
Most of these bonds are denominated in dollars, as despite the introduction of the single currency the US corporate bond market is far bigger than the market in Europe.
He was a presence through decades of political and social turmoil in Cambodia, despite long periods of exile overseas.
The DfE spokesman said the numbers of Neets had dropped despite the cutting in 2011 of Education Maintenance Allowance payments to 16- to 19-year old students from low-income households in England.
Clinton has often presented himself as an activist president in his State of the Union speeches and he plans to do so again, despite being in the final year of his presidency and facing an election-minded Congress whose Republican majority impeached him a little over a year ago.
The jury is still deliberating on which will prove superior in distressed times, despite early murmurings of a verdict in favor of China.
Search ad spending was still increasing in Japan, despite the effect of the earthquake and tsunami late in the first quarter.
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