In short, for UNCTAD capacity development should be

As a result, China now faces the problem of short term excess capacity.

It can provide stable, long term capacity building assistance free of short term political or economic objectives.

It includes continuous training aimed at capacity building in the short and medium term.

3.3.6 Provide short training programmes for management staff to promote gender capacity in schools

In short, strong growth tests economic institutions capacity to cope, and India s were found lacking.

Short term success must not be confused with sustainability and the capacity to deal with emergencies.

Short term memory (or primary or active memory ) is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

First, in a situation of widespread unemployment and excess capacity, short run output is determined primarily by demand, not supply.

Building national capacity to expand and sustain AIDS programmes will require both short and long term strategies.

Neither strengthening the Government apos s capacity in economic management nor alleviating poverty were short term endeavours.

Many third world countries simply lack the economic capacity and flexibility to react in the short term.

OHCHR had also sought to strengthen its capacity to field fact finding missions and support commissions of inquiry, often at short notice.

But, while banks with short term funding and many branches originating loans have a deep capacity for holding credit risks, they have a limited capacity for holding market risks, and little capacity for holding liquidity risk.

At the same time, the present organizational capacity of the Fund must be safeguarded against short term shifts in income levels and programme expenditure ratios.

In a short short while...

In the short term, supply may be able to respond to the extent that there is reserve capacity (there isn t much now).

Experience so far demonstrates that such additional capacity can be obtained in the form of short term, mostly local, consultancies in a very cost effective manner.

Activities in Mozambique in 1993 included provision of the services of a short term professional and a national officer, and funding of national capacity building for health emergency management.

What's good? Short, short bullet points.

African countries have made progress through the Short term Action Plan in infrastructure development, covering facilitation studies and investment and capacity building projects.

We're short of something.

You short of dynamite?

17. Such a rapid increase in the number and magnitude of field missions over a relatively short period of time has stretched the absorptive capacity of the Secretariat to the limit.

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I'll ring four times, long, short, long, short.

Number of short courses 52

Start of a short break

End of a short break

Start of a short break

End of a short break

Total number of short breaks

She's pretty short of breath.

Of course. A short one?

Kind of short on time.

However, for countries that were undergoing long term changes (whether positive or negative), only a short base period could accurately reflect their capacity to pay.

It is inconceivable that a monitoring team that has not yet nearly reached its mandated capacity, a capacity which already falls well short of the necessary manpower and resources, is in a position, factually or legally, to provide the enclosed authoritative assessment.

But it also seemed to me that a world short of risk bearing capacity needed virtually anything that induced people to commit their money to long term risky investments.

However, in countries that were short of human capital and lacked the capacity to replace the loss of their most qualified workers, such outflows were a major impediment to economic growth.

These programmes strengthen the capacity of land locked countries to cope with short term food emergencies and help to assess food needs and agricultural rehabilitation requirements in the event of disasters.

Tom is short, but not as short as Mary.

Despite considerable success in securing short term macroeconomic stabilization, the reforms appear to have neither removed the structural constraints facing the economy nor improved supply capacity.