In December, the chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, told the bank to scale back activities that were perceived as high risk and that required large amounts of capital.
Members of an influential Muslim women's group have now been told to scale back activities like preaching or teaching Islamic law.
In Central African Republic, the report notes that humanitarian organisations scaled back activities in the country in the autumn of 2013 despite an increase in needs in the country.
And the British Department for International Development is among many other big donors now scaling back their activities.
Commerzbank plans to merge its corporate and markets business with medium-sized German companies, while scaling back trading activities in investment banking.
Sponsors have dropped out of local science fairs, while some schools are scaling back extracurricular activities, including science programs, because of state budget cuts.
And, with some established companies scaling back their activities, he has found it easier to recruit than might otherwise have been the case.
The new survey comes a few days after reports that the Romney campaign was scaling back its activities in Pennsylvania and Michigan, another swing state where Obama has a consistent lead in the polls.
The 85-year-old newswoman, who officially retired from ABC's "The View" in 2014 after scaling back her activities for years, is returning with "American Scandal," a six-part series for Investigation Discovery.
Mulvaney has been praised by Republicans for significantly scaling back the activities of the consumer bureau, which was created in the aftermath of the financial crisis to try to prevent a repeat by cracking down on predatory lending and other abuses.
Businesses are laying off workers, food prices have doubled and tripled in some local markets, foreign companies are scaling back and activity has fallen at one of the continent's major ports.
