Third, free trade is in for a rough time because of the global economic downturn.
The global economic downturn and competing domestic priorities have left both capitals facing budget constraints.
The global economic downturn resulted in substantially lower end market demand over the past two years.
The global economic downturn and China's ability to survive it has clearly added to that country's appeal.
But now the stability enjoyed by the co-operatives faces a new threat from the global economic downturn.
With the global economic downturn in late 2008, South Korean GDP growth slowed to 0.3% in 2009.
The country was adversely affected by the global economic downturn in 2009, when GDP growth fell to 2.2%.
The global economic downturn led levels of work-related stress in the UK to soar, a British Academy report says.
On Monday Llanelli-based car parts plant Calsonic Kansei announced it was cutting 60 jobs, blaming the global economic downturn.
Beside the global economic downturn, the firm admitted it had faced "very challenging economic conditions" in Argentina and Venezuela.
In addition to the global economic downturn, the botched integration of IBM's PC business has been weighing on Lenovo's results.
Poland's economy grew by around 4% last year and large-scale luxury goods companies have been relatively untouched by the global economic downturn.
The global economic downturn caught the company on its heels last year.
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And they have certainly weathered the global economic downturn better than most.
Mr Calderon's term in office also coincided with the global economic downturn.
However, in 2009 as a result of the global economic downturn demand for coal fell to resulting in EBITDA margins of around 16%.
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But Verde's share value sank in the wake of the global economic downturn and the mounting worries about the drug war in Mexico.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Friday that he had no problem with the size of the transfer fee, despite the global economic downturn.
During the lead-up to the global economic downturn of 2001, Telecom Argentina, like many other companies during that time, became embroiled in financial turmoil.
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However, with the global economic downturn leading to a fall in economic activity across the world, profit margins fell to around 16% in 2009.
But BBC international development correspondent David Loyn says engaging politicians and the public will be harder this time round amid the global economic downturn.
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Last year, the company downgraded its growth estimates from 4% to 3% as the global economic downturn and an oversupply of vessels hit the industry.
The global economic downturn kept wages down and increased workers' grievances.
The global economic downturn, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, investment bank failures, falling home prices, and tight credit pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008.
Coming out of the global economic downturn, companies in China, India and other developing countries are eyeing North America and Europe as targets for new growth.
Backers of Shariah-compliant finance see an opportunity for expansion amid the global economic downturn, and some Western banks are welcoming this growing source of new business.
The official growth prediction for 2001 has been scaled back to 2% due to the global economic downturn and the crisis caused by the 11 September attacks.
Obama's move comes ahead of next week's Group of 20 meeting in London, England, in which leaders of the world's richest nations will discuss the global economic downturn.
Even though Abramovich's personal fortune is understood to have been affected by the global economic downturn, Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon insists the club is not for sale.
China has so far survived the global economic downturn with hardly any of the agitation many once feared it might cause among unemployed workers or jobless university graduates.
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