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The IMF forecast that the world economy would shrink by 1.3% in 2009, the first global fall in 60 years.
Although the LPI shows a global fall in biodiversity, and a stark decline in poorer countries, in richer countries conditions are improving for other species.
The maximum global fall in sea level was on the order of 70 metres (about 230 feet) and drained immense areas of former marine habitat.
Yet every day about 100 tons of space stuff comes calling on us, unannounced and mostly undetected, a global fall of extraterrestrial dust grains.
Further analysis suggested that the global fall was actually slightly less than this (between 7% and 9%), while in some places, such as the Soviet Union, the drop was higher (in that particular case, 20%).
Revising and ironing out contradictions in previous data, some of which found that infant mortality had risen despite an influx of oil money, the World Bank now says there appears to have been a drop, in line with a global fall in infant deaths.
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Much depends on how far an American downturn—and the global fall-out from the mortgage bust weakens growth in the rest of the world.
At any rate, surely it is time someone wrote a book about the global fall-out of this particular cultural trend.
And if the slowdown is global, falling commodity prices could deliver a further blow.
Some investigators suspect that certain e-mails - sent in late October as MF Global fell apart - contain clues about how the firm misused customer money.
MF Global fell victim to a crisis of confidence last fall after it was revealed that its chief executive, Jon S. Corzine, had bet big on European sovereign bonds.
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