Shadow economic secretary Cathy Jamieson said she was proud of the record of the last Labour government's efforts to tackle climate change.
The prospect of a war with Iraq is also casting a shadow over the economic outlook.
As growing water scarcity casts a shadow over the economic boom in warmer states, many in the long-scorned northlands are hoping they can finally make their abundance of freshwater a magnet for businesses and jobs that are now going elsewhere.
But that is just the beginning of an ambitious to-do list from the Fund, which starts from recognising, in the words of the staff report, that "incomplete economic and financial and fiscal integration is casting a shadow on the future of Economic and Monetary Union".
Instead, that city, in its day Iraq's number two, has become an impoverished shadow of its former economic glory.
Argentina is in many ways living in its past and grapples daily with the shadow of its 2001 economic collapse.
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The Social and Economic Council became a mere shadow of its former self.
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Kazakhstan's economic troubles are also casting a shadow on its neighbour Kyrgyzstan, where several Kazakh banks have operations.
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Education is an economic issue when we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that countries that out-educate us today, they will out-compete us tomorrow.
The comments fuelled speculation that Mr Portillo had made a deal with Mr Hague to take full control over economic policy before his surprise promotion to the shadow cabinet earlier this month.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the coalition had been left an economic legacy pointing towards recovery but that this had been jeopardised by the coalition cutting "too far too fast", with Britain paying in lost jobs and slower growth.
But shadow chancellor Ed Balls said Mr Osborne had failed the "first economic test" he set himself as chancellor and was himself now "downgraded".
There is a "crisis of masculinity in Britain" because of the pressures rapid economic and social change have placed on masculine identity, shadow health minister Diane Abbott is to claim.
Financial products remain complex and shadow banking continues to be unregulated, Min Zhu told bankers at the World Economic Forum.
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It helps include people previously in the shadow of the informal economy and increases government earnings that can fund social and economic development.
But Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves, said the government's economic plan was "hurting but not working".
Shadow Secretary for Local and Devolved Government Affairs, Caroline Spelman, said the report reinforced the need for economic growth to be spread more evenly across the country.
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Shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie argued that Ireland's problems illustrated the dangers of a "one-track economic strategy built around austerity alone".
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