Last month the World Bank predicted a 2% decrease this year - the largest drop since the 1940s.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Advertising sales dropped sixteen percent last year, and the group expects another ten percent drop this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

World trade is expected to drop eleven percent this year, after expanding by three percent last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Another report on Thursday showed a small drop in the number of newly jobless workers last week.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Many people blamed the Greek crisis for the sudden drop in American stock markets last Thursday.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

He noted that poppy cultivation decreased 19 percent nationwide last year and is on track to drop even further in 2009.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The Labor Department says first-time claims for jobless benefits took an unexpected drop last week, to the lowest number since 2009 began, and 20 percent lower than at its peak earlier in the year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12