The former president says that merchants see a bleak economic future for Iran because of rising prices, lack of investment,lower oil revenues and the elimination of price controls.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

His comments came at the start of the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong, where international delegates and representatives of the International Monetary Fund met to discuss the region's economic future.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

If not,they say, the future of food security, economic development and social stability in dry areas will be put at risk.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Its aim is to guide the country's environmental policies and future laws to protect natural resources and ensure safe economic development.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The World Cup will also leave a legacy of new infrastructure to buoy economic expansion in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

He also talked about actions to put America on a stronger economic footing in the future, by improving education standards across the country.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The president's top economic advisor, Christina Romer,defended the administration's proposed spending blueprint, arguing that future economic growth will be more vibrant than the CBO assumes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The president calls his spending plan "an economic blueprint" for the country's future.".

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The rights group says the government's foot-dragging on calls for justice for the victims of post-election violence threatens to undermine Kenya's stability and impede future economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

The statement says, "The decision is aimed at creating conditions for the future normalization of the situation in the republic, its reconstruction and development of its socio-economic sphere."

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

He says Mr.Obama will also discuss efforts to minimize the economic impact on the people of the Gulf region, and to enact new safety regulations to prevent future disasters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"I think we are recognizing that the Washington consensus on economic policy is over - that the old world has gone, that we have got to build a new consensus on economic development for the future,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

"The biggest area of progress is giving Afghans the ability to actually change their own future, through education, through training of teachers, through economic opportunities such as the rehabilitation of the Dahla Dam, restoring agriculture."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Even if U.S.economic output expands in 2010 and more Americans head back to work, both critics and supporters of the president say the nation faces a more serious challenge to future economic viability: a rapidly growing deficit and a national debt estimated at more than $12 trillion.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

"If we refuse to take into account the full costs of our fossil fuel addiction - if we don't factor in the environmental costs and the national security costs and the true economic costs - we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14