On January 1st China's FTA with ASEAN, the world's biggest by population, came into effect.
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The economic effect of population decline will, in all probability, be severe, long-lasting, and evident soon.
Ill-designed pension systems magnify the effect of population ageing by creating incentives for people to retire ever earlier.
The official mandatory evacuation order for the general population will remain in effect until then, said the mayor's spokesman, James Ross.
It was also home to a distinct and isolated mosquito population, so the effect could be monitored closely with only a minor risk of mosquitoes from neighbouring areas contaminating the results.
This is the effect of aging population: millions more people will be eligible for Medicare, and healthcare costs grow as we get older.
Perhaps the most pernicious economic effect of a declining population will be on urbanization.
As a result, Dr Attari expects bulbs to exert an anchoring effect on the general population as well as on her volunteers, contributing to widespread underestimates of the energy demands of large appliances.
The "seismic shifts" in population will have a "noticeable effect on day-to-day life in the city", but universities' influence cannot be "consistently predictable and positive", she told a conference run by Universities UK in London.
Third, researchers have focused on so-called gene-environment interactions, reasoning that some exposures that have relatively weak associations with breast cancer in the general population may have a much stronger effect in subgroups with a specific genetic make-up.
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With the continued growth of the U.S. population, this lower supply is definitely having an effect on price.
The authorities were seriously concerned about the effect of heavy bombing on the civilian population, but Hull did not crack and the raids produced many examples of heroism.
The head of the panel said all the large environmental population based studies done in the VSD were en effect useless, but as bad as they were they were an improvement the other two the Denmark studies.
So is the aging of the population, creating more single widows and widowers, an effect that will grow as the baby boom retires.
"Given the increase in sweet beverage consumption in Europe, clear messages on its deleterious effect on health should be given to the population, " Dr Romaguera and colleagues conclude in their research paper.
Many in the general population carry some of these variants in random combinations, without any detectable effect.
Syaukani, the regent, as the head of a regency is known, explains that Kutai's budget has risen from 400 billion rupiah to 2 trillion since the autonomy law took effect, even as it lost two-thirds of its population to other regencies.
But one as yet unstudied side-effect of this social trend appears to be an explosion in the cat population.
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" They cite a study that found that without factoring in the effects of climate change, "the global population at risk from malaria would increase by 100% by 2080, whereas the effect of climate change would increase the risk of malaria by at most 7%.
The researchers modelled the effect of removing sick animals on the disease's prevalence in a small population.
The effect of this tardiness has been to put physical activity in reverse gear compared with population trends and advances in tobacco and alcohol control and diet.
The effect of the industry's decline could be seen in the empty storefronts and dwindling population, said Mark Belanger, manager of the local branch of the state employment-security division.
Also, stocks are owned by a much smaller portion of the population in China than the U.S., which means many fewer people feel the wealth effect of a rally.
The streamlining pact is to take effect once at least ten states representing at least 20% of the U.S. population have ratified it.
That had the effect of taking Shiite militias that had mostly been fighting passively on the war defending their own population centers and bringing them into the war en masse and on the offensive in ways that al-Qaeda hoped would create enough chaos in Iraq to force the Americans out.
While the average effect on each baby is small and so should not alarm individual prospective parents, for the whole population these small risks add up across millions of people.
This is because the election in England and Wales is being fought on the 1997 constituency boundaries, and in the intervening years Labour's (mainly urban) seats have lost population, while the Tory (mainly suburban) seats have gained population. (The next revision -which takes place every 8 to 12 years - will come into effect in 2007, while boundaries have already been revised in Scotland).
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