Thailand and Indonesia, the two worst hit, suffered a slump in GDP during 1997-2002 of around 35% relative to their potential output (assuming growth at its previous pace)—as bad as America's output loss during its Great Depression in the early 1930s.Some foreigners were quick too quick to pronounce the Asian economic miracle dead.
To be effective, project opportunities must be analyzed relative to their potential value, strength, and importance to the enterprise.
Landscape patch attributes (e.g. patch cover and spacing) and on-ground inspection of soil and vegetation attributes were used to rate and rank four sites relative to their potential to retain resources.
This study develops and applies a framework (derived from recent scholarship on adaptation) for assessing the perceptions of forest management practitioners about issues, challenges, and factors that they consider important relative to their potential to contribute to climate change adaptation.
The possibilities in mobile computing may actually be under-hyped relative to their potential and addressable market size, and while it will take years, maybe decades to unfold, it will create the space for entirely new consumer experiences, new business applications, and for the platform victors and serfs, riches and power on a scale we have yet to see in technology.
The focus of this two-tiered program has been first to develop in vitro and in vivo assays to identify and classify substances relative to their potential interaction with endocrine systems (Tier 1) and then to develop concentration-response relationships in animal models (Tier 2).
Winners who have a normal sex life with horribly underperform relative to their potential.
[7, 8] Although long-term studies are not yet available, the impressive safety profile of these vaccinations give strength to their public health benefit relative to their potential risks.
Despite the recognition of the various factors that individually influence adherence, little is understood of their relative importance, their potential interactions and the extent to which individuals' trade off one attribute of treatment for another in their decision-making.
An approach that builds on our demonstration would involve additional stakeholders in developing politically intelligible, country-specific targets to help national policy makers and stakeholders accurately assess their performance relative to their potential.
