flat | low-contrast | without contrast

flat lighting | low-contrast lighting | soft light | soft-contrast lighting

low contrast emulsion | soft contrast emulsion

administer contrast agent | utilize contrast media | administer contrast media | use and administer contrast agents

medical contrast agent | medical contrast-agents | medical contrast agents | radiopaque material

low cost airline [ budget airline | budget carrier | discount airline | discount carrier | low cost carrier | low fare airline | low fare carrier | no frills airline | no frills carrier ]

clean technology [ clean industry | environmentally sound technology | environmentally sustainable technology | low-carbon technology | low waste technology | cleaner production(UNBIS) | low waste technology(UNBIS) ]

low water discharge | low flow | low water flow

aid to disadvantaged groups [ aid to low-income groups | charity | income support | supplementary benefit ]

examine insurance products | perform comparison of insurance products | compare insurance products | contrast insurance products

The country's situation continues to reflect the major structural problems that beset it: (a) the shortcomings of the social protection system, whose per capita level of public expenditure is the lowest in the EU (despite some impact on the risk of poverty, which would have been 37% without social transfers including pensions); (b) the low level of education (in 2002, only 20.6% of 25-64 year-olds had completed at least upper secondary education, and the early school-leaving rate of 45.5% contrasts strikingly with the EU average of 18.8%); (c) the low skill level of large sectors of the working population, in an economy based on labour ...[+++]-intensive, low-paid work ("the working poor "), together with low participation in continuing training (2.9% in 2002), hamper sectoral restructuring and explain why productivity growth is so low (0.3% in 2002, unchanged since 2001).

This contrasts with the fact that — even before the crisis — spending in some Member States was rather low, close to or below 4 % of GDP, while the European Union average stood at almost 5 % of GDP — below the level of 5,3 % in the United States.

The variation in employment rates across EU-15 is most noticeable in the low-skilled population, contrasting from 41% Belgium to 67% Portugal.

The relatively low level of fatalities in rail, sea and air transport accidents stands in sharp contrast to the high number of road fatalities.