Some declines were striking; rent in studios in doorman buildings in the financial district, for example, dropped by $503, to $2,559 a month.
(It should be noted that the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, considered Canada's most prestigious by some, declines to participate in the Which MBA? ranking).
Norway's booming petroleum industry has ensured a strong positive balance of payments for the national economy, despite some declines in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors.
Mr. Malanga, a senior fellow at the institute, cited some declines — in the poverty rate for families, to 16.3percentt in 2006 from 16.7percentthehe year before, and among households headed by women, to 30.4percentt from 31.2percentt.
That led to some declines in September that gave the Dow and S.& P. 500 their first losing month since February; the Nasdaq posted its first monthly loss since January.
The effect of falling currencies makes some declines even worse: Thailand's benchmark stock index, which has fallen 46percentthis yearar, is down 54percentt in dollar terms; Indonesia's, down 40percentt in local currency, has also sunk more than half in dollar terms.
