11.   Australian central bank governor Ian Macfarlane said Thursday the economy remained free of major economic imbalances and forecast low inflation for the foreseeable future.

12.   Zimbabwe could soon plunge into political instability if economic imbalances between blacks and whites are not corrected, a government minister said Friday.

13.   Mahathir said multi-racial Malaysia was moving aggressively into industrialisation as the government believed that it would held reduce the economic imbalance between the various ethnic groups.

14.   One frequent accusation against UNCTAD is that it tries to run too many broad programmes that ultimately have little long-term impact on trade and economic imbalances.