11. Their poverty has been worsened by economic trends that hit the least-skilled hard. 12. Supporters of the scheme say world economic trends make such a pact inevitable. 13. Western economic trends show that advertisement is actually intensified during times of recession. 14. Consider four or five new economic trends , none of them obscure. 15. The three indexes are used together as a barometer of overall economic trends . 16. The continent's economic trends are favorable as well, fund managers say. 17. Wolfensohn said recent economic trends indicated that Pakistan was on the right track. 18. The stock market, which mirrors overall economic trends , remained decidedly gloomy. 19. Still, broader economic trends point to subdued wage and benefit costs. 20. That's one economic trend that often punishes the importing country's currency.
