India's container traffic, having grown at a blistering pace, declined by 4% in April compared with the same month last year.
Mining jobs have been declining at a rapid pace in recent years, mainly because of a decline in demand due to competition from lower-cost natural gas.
HIV-2 infections declined in prevalence between 1990 and 1997 before declining at a greater pace between 1997 and 2007 (Fig. 1a).
From September until the end of last year, exports declined slowly and imports declined at a faster pace, causing the monthly trade deficit to shrink as the economy slowed.
However, although the age-adjusted PUD hospitalization rate appears to be declining more rapidly among male patients than among female patients, the age-adjusted H. pylori infection hospitalization rate appears to be declining at a similar pace for female patients and male patients.
The E.C.B. pointed out that demand for business loans declined at a slower pace in the second quarter than it had declined in the previous three months, and that banks expected an even milder decline in the third quarter.
In fact, according to a recent issue of Inequality in Focus, "Inequality in Brazil declined at a faster pace than elsewhere in Latin America: After 1997, inequality declined by 0.8percentt per year; from 2001 on, the rate of decline accelerated to 1.07percentt per year, well above the regional pace of 0.63percentt".
Europe desperately needs investment in energy (where its competitiveness is currently declining at a worrying pace), transport, and basic infrastructure (even Hamburg's port is crumbling).
While prices have fallen all year, they had appeared to be declining at a slower pace; that is no longer the case.
The administrators' report is expected to detail steps taken to turn the business around over the past six months, noting that although costs were coming down, sales were declining at a faster pace.
