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So, for reasons of Realpolitik, India
expanded
its activities and investments in Burma throughout the last two decades of the junta’s rule.
While the rich got richer, the poor did not get poorer, but the gap between rich and poor
expanded
significantly.
Personal consumption in the United States
expanded
at only a 1.5% annual rate in real (inflation-adjusted) terms in the second quarter of 2012 – and that was no aberration.
Reopening international commerce (see table)
expanded
trade faster than in the 19th century.
Such an integrated policy approach is needed to ensure that the basic rights of Roma are truly realized in an
expanded
Europe.
Advocates invariably assert that an
expanded
NATO would fill a vacuum in Eastern Europe.
Willingness could be exhausted if the EU budget is further
expanded
without reducing Germany’s net contribution and narrowing the gap between its financing and voting rights.
In the longer term, we also need technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS),
expanded
nuclear power, and new generations of solar energy, together with the development of technologies whose potential or even existence is still unknown.
The World Bank’s pledge to end financial support for upstream oil and gas is a step in the right direction, but it should be
expanded
and become the norm for all MDBs.
The arguments in favor of
expanded
solidarity measures are unconvincing.
It is no coincidence that from 2010 to 2014, the largest banks, firms, and investment funds increased their cash holdings by $3 trillion – roughly the amount by which central banks in reserve-currency countries
expanded
their balance sheets over the same period.
The bureaucracy
expanded
from 40 million to 70 million, and power devolved to provinces, bureaucracies, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
A new international order will also require an
expanded
set of norms and arrangements, beginning with an agreed-upon basis for statehood.
How will he manage the growing middle class’s expectations of better infrastructure,
expanded
access to health care and education, uninterrupted electricity and water supplies, and more efficient transport facilities?
Peer-to-peer lending has
expanded
faster than elsewhere in Europe.
For example, ongoing World Trade Organization discussions about the rules that will govern the digital economy should be
expanded
to include strategies for leveling the global playing field.
The dramatic decrease in laws and customs perpetuating female subordination over the past 40 years has been closely connected to women’s
expanded
participation in paid employment.
He has proposed a five-year, €50 billion ($54.4 billion) stimulus plan, which would include investments in infrastructure and green technologies, along with
expanded
training for the unemployed.
This effort should be
expanded
to include other parties, and be used as a first step toward building regional trust.
The Environment of PovertyCOPENHAGEN – Despite gains in life expectancy,
expanded
access to education, and lower rates of poverty and hunger, the world has a long way to go to improve the quality of people’s lives.
Meanwhile, China’s shadow-banking system has
expanded
at an unprecedented rate.
Of this amount, around $2 billion was received by the five best-paid individuals, who were also central to creating the highly risky asset structures that brought the financial system to the edge of the abyss: Sandy Weil (built Citigroup, which blew up shortly after he left);Hank Paulson (greatly
expanded
Goldman Sachs, lobbied for allowing more leverage in investment banks, then moved to the US Treasury and helped save them);Angelo Mozilo (built Countrywide, a central player in irresponsible mortgage lending);Dick Fuld (ran Lehman Brothers into the ground); and Jimmy Cayne (ran Bear Stearns into the ground).
- Management would be free to take a position on all issues not involving the use of Fund resources, unless it is was explicitly overruled by the
expanded
board.
The tax break for “carried interest,” by which hedge-fund managers’ income is taxed at low capital-gains rates, should be abolished (as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton favors), and the exemption for the estate tax (originally
expanded
by George W. Bush) could be reduced.
In the years preceding August 1914, until the assassination of the archduke, the global economy performed relatively well: trade
expanded
worldwide, financial markets seemed healthy, and the business community shrugged off political problems as either temporary or irrelevant.
For example, traditional businesses, from fabric wholesaling to banking and salt mining, evolved elaborate profit-sharing schemes among owners, partners, and employees as their business
expanded
over time or into chain outlets across the country.
Putin clinched his authority over the state sector in 2007, during his second term, with the creation of vast corporations that have since
expanded
substantially, with cheap state funding, often securing monopolies in their industries.
Under Modi’s leadership, Gujarat became a business-friendly state that
expanded
economic activity, and attracted business investment from both Indian and overseas companies.
The EITC has bipartisan support; it was enacted under President Gerald Ford, and has been
expanded
under Republican and Democratic presidents alike: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
As Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens put it, “the present global order – the liberal rules-based system established in 1945 and
expanded
after the end of the Cold War – is under unprecedented strain.
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