Ghiyath Nakshbendi of American University in Washington notes that the problems are linked to a worldwide collapse in real estate prices.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Tim Kane is with the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation, a nonprofit in the United States that works to increase entrepreneurship worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

In all,the I.M.F.says worldwide financial losses could be as high as four trillion dollars by the end of next year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

It predicts counterfeit sales will reach seventy-five billion dollars worldwide this year nearly double the level of two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

As a result,in nineteen sixty-nine, the church removed Saint Valentine's Day from its official worldwide calendar of Catholic feasts.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

A report from the e-Marketer research group predicts that worldwide,tablet sales will reach more than eighty-one million in two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

The Obama administration has launched the first in a series of projects to support entrepreneurs in Muslim communities worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

And,the World Health Organization says asthma rates are increasing worldwide by an average of fifty percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

This kind of tobacco is grown extensively in Africa and used extensively in American-style cigarettes that are popular worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

But now the first worldwide study warns that one in six of the many different kinds of mangroves could disappear.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

There are about one thousand new cases of fistula each year in Kenya and as many as one hundred thousand worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The study concludes that the worldwide health effects from drinking are about the same as that of smoking nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

He had made the Fillmore Auditorium popular worldwide by bringing famous African American performers like Billie Holiday,James Brown and Sammy Davis,Jr.Bill.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

We talked last week about a new report on preterm births the leading cause of death in newborn babies worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

The ILO notes that child labor is decreasing worldwide, but at a much slower rate than four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Intensive vaccination campaigns have reduced the number of new polio cases reported worldwide to fewer than two thousand a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

The aim is to bring primary school education to all girls and boys worldwide by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.20