As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems.

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However, Christine Whitehead, a housing economist at the London School of Economics, is sceptical about Mr Brown's ability to combat the anti-development pressures that are so powerful in southern England.

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The plane maker's income was hurt by the weak dollar, higher research-and-development costs and pricing pressures.

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While the majority of REITs remain passive purchasers for now, competitive pressures are pushing them toward development.

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The site, which counts some 15 villages within its 42 square kilometres, is also threatened by pressures on land use for development and tourism.

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The company listed several factors, some of which were decreased by-product credits from lower metals prices, higher development costs in Peru, industry-wide cost pressures and the issues at Manantial Espejo.

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Social sciences have a vital role to play in understanding planetary pressures and in establishing the basis for sustainable development, as do basic and environmental sciences.

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Zambia's unwise nationalisation of the mines in 1969 (as advised by the best of British development economists) may have contributed to declining copper production but population pressures, shifts in the terms of trade since the 1970s and a burden of debt to the West that originated then in recycled petro-dollars have contributed massively to the impoverishment of the country.

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On the other hand, says Willem Buiter, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, capital flows into these economies as they adopt the euro might increase inflationary pressures pushing inflation above the Maastricht targets.

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