The Philippines, a new favourite among some foreign investors, may fall not far short of that.
Given the unemployment rate, which has continued to fall not because of a robust jobs recovery, but rather because each month more people leave the workforce, and tepid disposable income it makes sense that consumers have become big time price shoppers.
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In other words, according to the ONS, the fall was not yet statistically significant.
But stockmarkets need to fall, not just to reflect the prospect of recession but also to correct their previous overvaluation.
During a Meet the Press appearance the day before, Treasury Secretary James Baker suggested that the dollar's fall would not be arrested.
Another market free-fall may not signal the end of the bad news.
Mr Rushden, the council's structures and geotechnics team leader, said the location of the rock fall was not where the maintenance was done.
The bank, reporting profits down by almost one third, credited its broad global and geographical presence for ensuring that the fall was not larger.
Prices, which were stable from April 2009 to June 2011, are falling significantly for some devices, although the fall is not yet impacting all products.
The first was much in evidence in the chancellor's speech: borrowing will fall, not rise, this year, despite almost universal forecasts that it would go up.
As long as their overseas markets are also suffering from the global downturn, the pound's fall is not enough to make up for weakening foreign demand.
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It probably is still a bit too cheap, and it would certainly be a mistake for Beijing to allow it to fall, not least because this would risk a protectionist backlash from abroad.
Food prices had been falling but even then, the global price fall did not translate into a comparable decline on local markets in most poor countries, so the poor did not benefit much.
It would be a great shame if the current obsession with poverty obscured the institutions' traditional focus on enhancing economic growth which remains the best way to reduce poverty levels, even if the fall is not automatically commensurate with the growth.
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If those forecasts are right, inflation in the UK will be lower in the next few years than it has been since 2009, and the real value of benefits will fall by not much more than 1% a year, between now and 2015, as a result of this policy.
Though Canada will not fall apart under a minority government, it might not progress much either, and the public finances could be weakened.
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First of all, what we are saying is that this -- our current actions in Libya or in this mission do not fall under the War Powers resolution because they do not meet the threshold of hostilities as envisioned by the War Powers resolution.
These individuals do not fall within the confines of any political framework and will not be a part of this political solution.
The foreign minister said that the case does "not fall in the category of matters which attract the death penalty" and "there need not be any apprehension in this regard".
Just as Australia's markets did not fall as far as its neighbours' during the 1997-98 crisis, they did not rise as high before it: Australia's links with the rest of the region (apart from the commodities trade) have never been that strong.
Consequently, rents do not fall as much as in other real estate sectors during economic downturns and, alternatively, they do not rise as much during economic upswings.
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It was the fourth-consecutive weekly decline, but the figure did not fall as much as economists expected, a sign that while the labor market is improving it is not recovering quickly.
All the principals expressed concerns about older students who did not fall within the 16-19 year old age range target of the government and emphasised that a clearer picutre would not emerge until the Scottish Funding Council had revealed its priorities for the reallocation of funds from regions in its budgets.
We are not going to let this country fall backward -- not now, not with so much at stake.
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So I am looking for strong fundamentals in a bearish market, because even if the market does fall and my stock does fall, I know it is not going to fall through the floor.
Chip prices will continue to fall and will not stabilize until the middle of next year.
But that does not fall within the remit of the state of California's dairy regulations.
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