The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

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Twenty-three years ago, amid an oil crisis and a world economic slump, the territory still had one foot in poverty.

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The market for trophy recreational western ranches in the U.S., long bogged down by the world economic slump, has recently caught fire again.

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If Europe goes into a deep or prolonged economic slump, the rest of the world follows.

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