For all the pain endured by companies and the big drop in euro-area output, the region's unemployment is rising more slowly than in America or Britain.
Output in the euro area probably fell as fast as in Britain and America in the last three months of 2008, even as Japan's GDP sagged still more dramatically (see article).
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But now most economists reckon it will be no bigger than 2%, meaning that the euro area's output gap will widen.
U.S. retail sales data, industrial output in China and the euro area, the ongoing Spanish banking crisis and possible further monetary policy easing in Japan will all be overshadowed by the Greek elections, said Nomura Securities analysts in a 16 page report on Friday.
China is a top area for growth in aluminum output and use, but another region that is seeing growth in aluminum production is the Middle East, he said.
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In agriculture, creating a global productivity target would help countries focus on a key but neglected area: the efficiency and output of hundreds of millions of small farmers who live in poverty.
Britain's were 4.7 times output, somewhat higher than in the euro area (3.5) but lower than in Switzerland (6.8).
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Thursday saw many of the fans visiting vineyards in the Martinborough area, famous for its pinot noir output, and several coaches heading east to view seal colonies and the rugged coastline.
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Using the TV to pull up a custom Google Calendar module, Hemsley held the Droplet up to a defined area on the display, which then output a series of colors, transmitting data to the module.
Mr Cliffe says that a disintegration of the euro would be catastrophic even for core Europe, with first-year output losses of 8.9% for the euro area (as was).
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To match that output using wind energy, you'd need a land area nearly the size of Rhode Island.
Geography weighs differently: a tonne of sulphur dioxide emitted in a big city may cause more harm than the same tonne emitted in a rural area, while a dollar's-worth of output counts the same wherever it is produced.
In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.
The euro area may have managed to dodge recession in early 2012 (when output remained flat after declining by 0.3% in late 2011), but GDP seems to have slipped back in the second quarter.
Distrust of the GDP numbers has prompted Capital Economics, a research firm based in London, to create its own proxy of economic activity, which includes electricity output, domestic freight volumes, cargo traffic at ports, passenger transport and floor area under construction.
Matching that power output with corn ethanol would require intensive farming on more than 21, 000 square miles, an area nearly the size of West Virginia.
Industrial production in the euro area fell by 0.5% in April, surprising economists who had expected a further rise in output after the 0.5% monthly increase in March.
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