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While recent data suggest that the economy is doing better – all signs are that GDP will have expanded at a 3% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 – it is important not get carried away.
Subsequent reforms expanded and widened the land-owning class, fostering an agricultural revival and making Japanese democracy more stable.
Most notably, in the South and East China Seas, China has been staking its claim to disputed island territories, deploying advanced military hardware, and aggressively patrolling an expanded security zone.
When it comes to the latter, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s proposals in August – expanded monetary easing, structural reforms (particularly in France and Italy), and some fiscal expansion by countries like Germany – provide a useful framework to be supplemented with concrete measures.
But Europeans banks have now dramatically expanded their operations across the EU.
But by then the Muslim population will have expanded rapidly – to 10-20% of the total in the UK.
Past initiatives – like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the World Bank’s East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking Project – have greatly expanded the continent’s medical infrastructure.
Thus, in the early post-war period, developing countries, whose exports had previously consisted mainly of natural resources and agricultural products, expanded into labor-intensive manufacturing.
But no one anticipated China’s abrupt shift away from a closed, centrally planned economy to a more open, market-oriented one with expanded economic freedom for individuals and enterprises alike.
That will require restoring and creating competitiveness in an expanded set of value-added components in the tradable sector.
Leaving aside the fact that transfer payments are already fiscally unsustainable in most countries (because they were adopted and expanded under better economic and demographic conditions), could they lift the economy?
Its economy has expanded for eight consecutive quarters, steadily gaining momentum and easily outperforming the rest of the currency union.
Had the economy expanded by 2% annually since 2008 – that is, at half its average growth rate from 1999 to 2007 – it would be over one-fifth larger than it is now.
Though the middle class in Africa has expanded markedly in recent years, generating a consumer boom and boosting domestic investment, many people still struggle to make a living.
There were no major wars between superpowers, global trade expanded and drove economic growth, poverty was more than halved, and rapid advances in science and technology delivered benefits to every corner of the world.
They expanded a system of workhouses and poor relief for the destitute, built up municipal water and sewage systems, municipalized police forces, and oversaw public investment in landmarks that are still with us, such as the Thames Embankment and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The value is in people’s heads – in the meanings of the words and the brand associations – not in the expanded namespace.
And of course mobile providers benefit as well from operating in an expanded rural market.
At the same time, we expanded the scope of individual rights, which had long been subordinated to security concerns.
As a result, long-term adversaries like France and Germany were reconciled within a region-wide project – first a coal and steel community, which expanded to become the European Economic Community and, ultimately, the European Union – that integrated the continent politically and economically to such an extent that violent conflict was rendered unthinkable.
And long-term solutions such as establishing and connecting bio-surveillance systems should be expanded and strengthened, to enable public-health professionals around the world to track and report human and animal diseases and plan defenses together.
As a result, they have expanded into global markets, enabled by an extralegal system of relationships based on clientelism and corruption.
Instead, a committee – initially comprising 800 members, but since expanded to 1,200 – selects the chief executive in accordance with the Chinese government’s wishes.
Ensuring that adaptive capacity is expanded and exploited where it is most needed is thus a key challenge.
Copenhagen Consensus researchers calculate that for about $1 billion a year, vaccination programs could be expanded to prevent childhood pneumonia and diarrhea, saving an additional one million lives annually.
In practice, the global crisis means that sustainable investments are being curtailed rather than expanded in the developing world.
The ability to offset the crisis in a constructive manner through expanded public-private partnerships will determine the subsequent success of countries and regions.
Circumcision has increasingly come under fire in Europe, because the definition of human rights has expanded to include children’s bodily integrity, while the definition of religious freedom has narrowed to include primarily worship and association.
But if the Islamic State were simply a vehicle for Sunni struggle against Shia rule, the conflict would not have expanded well beyond Shia-populated areas.
To be sure, expanded trade holds great promise for promoting development and democracy.
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