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Despite the most severe financial and economic crisis in almost a century, the Finnish national debt actually
decreased
by 2009, to 39.7%.
Another objection is that, if public services (relative to national income) are not to be cutback, tax rates must sooner or later go higher than they would otherwise have done in order to deal with the increased public debt or
decreased
asset position (relative to national income) that results.
Canada, in the past two decades, has
decreased
spending by 8% of GDP and similarly prospered.
Bernanke’s original speech emphasized several factors – some that
decreased
the demand for global savings, and some that increased supply.
Fortunately, violence inside Kashmir has
decreased
for now, though it could easily flare up again if the Taliban were to consolidate its power in Afghanistan, and the ISI were to ratchet up support for groups like LeT and JeM.
Correspondingly, RMB liabilities owed by mainlanders and multinationals decreased, as did RMB assets held in Hong Kong.
But our calculations, based on the UHS data, show that labor-force participation in China actually increased slightly after 2008, as the proportion of workers exiting the labor market
decreased.
Even those who have moved above the threshold of extreme poverty remain poor and vulnerable: the number of people living on less than $2 per day – the median poverty line for developing countries – has
decreased
only negligibly, from 2.5 to 2.47 billion.
For example,
decreased
US demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) has allowed gas prices to come down in Europe.
The number of states sponsoring terrorism has
decreased
over the past decade.
More intense competition, within and across countries, has
decreased
the available rents.
Furthermore,
decreased
transportation costs and the breakup of vertical production chains in many sectors are facilitating poorer countries’ integration into the global economy.
In fact, the
decreased
cost of manufacturing in America, combined with the country’s business-friendly regulations, strong rule of law, and political stability, will eliminate the competitive advantage that has driven China’s rapid economic growth over the last several decades.
Herbicide-tolerant plants have
decreased
herbicide use and encouraged the widespread adoption of no-till farming, markedly reducing topsoil loss and promoting soil fertility.
Rapid productivity increases in manufacturing had outpaced growth in demand, which meant that manufacturing employment
decreased.
This technology-driven trend has been compounded by the effects of
decreased
transportation and communication costs, making it cheaper to move goods over long distances.
Reducing annual deficits requires either increased tax revenue or
decreased
outlays.
These include scaling up renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels (including an early retirement of existing fossil infrastructure), wider diffusion of sustainable agroecological agriculture, and
decreased
energy and resource input into our economy.
But, owing to the integration of global value chains, industrial exports now comprise many imported inputs, which means that the effect of exchange-rate movements on domestic prices and the trade balance has
decreased
substantially over time.
Electricity consumption fell 6% in November from a year ago, and freight traffic has
decreased
by 20%.
While poverty has
decreased
slightly since 1994, inequality has vaulted upward, fueled by extreme unemployment, state incapacity, corruption, and affirmative-action policies skewed toward the upper reaches of the economy (not to mention the pernicious legacy of apartheid).
Despite the eight-fold increase in aid per head to the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1960 and 2007, real GDP per head
decreased
by two-thirds in the same period.
Most OECD countries began to take tobacco control seriously in the last two decades, and have
decreased
male tobacco deaths since.
From 1973 to 2014, the income of the poorest 20% of households actually
decreased
slightly, even as the income of the richest 5% of households doubled.
The reality, however, is that the economy’s near-term momentum has actually been decreasing ever since quantitative easing began – and has
decreased
more rapidly as the size of the program has grown.
Allowing for changes in the number of people and their wealth, flood losses have actually
decreased
slightly.
In Denmark, for example, total antibiotic use by pig farmers has decreased, despite a slight increase in antibiotics administered for treating porcine diseases.
Violence
decreased
most significantly with the disbanding of the right-wing paramilitaries, and with the decimation in battle of the left-wing FARC guerillas and the decapitation of its leadership.
But the sharply
decreased
availability of longer-term funding is heightening financial-sector vulnerabilities.
But the most authoritative conclusion by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that it is not even clear whether floods have increased or
decreased
globally over the past century.
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