A review of ten poor countries by the Overseas Development Institute, a think-tank in London, concludes that they were worse hit than anyone expected, with sharp declines in remittances, employment and revenues and widespread balance-of-payments problems.
The government job losses were mostly at the state and local level, reflecting widespread cutbacks to balance budgets.
Mr Osborne faces a tricky choice as he tries to balance widespread concerns about the impact on the lowest paid with his manifesto pledge to cut £12bn from the welfare bill, which are crucial to his plan to balance the books by 2019.
This budgetary norm didn't change until the 1930s, when economic stagnation and widespread deprivation made balancing the budget impossible.
Although restorer alleles in gynodioecious species are often geographically widespread due to balancing selection, no studies have examined the distribution of restorers in hermaphroditic plant populations.
"It is that the Iranian plateau is becoming uninhabitable.... Groundwater has decreased and a negative water balance is widespread, and no one is thinking about this".
The simple notion of budget balance, although widespread, can be seriously misleading to one who attempts to decide whether a government is being expansionary or contractionary at a particular time.
Thus in a pax1-1 background, the phenotypes may result from widespread alterations in the balance of the Aux/IAA-ARF network, triggered by primary changes in just a few genes.
Also prefrontal cortex damage impairs a wide range of learning and memory abilities (Fuster, 2008, 2009) presumably because of its widespread control over the balance of excitation and inhibition in the many prediction structures of the brain.
Widespread belief that reserve balances add "fuel" to bank lending is flawed, as I explained here over two years ago.
