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Under the leadership of Gro Harlem Bruntland (1997-2002), it expanded its NCD advocacy and programming.

In the first half of 2013, services output (the tertiary sector) expanded by 8.3% year on year – markedly faster than the combined 7.6% growth of manufacturing and construction (the secondary sector).

What made the spread of derivatives possible was the ease with which the volume of debt for a given set of real assets could be expanded.

Such programs can be expanded by the participation of additional like-minded countries, along with civil-society organizations.

Global Economic Cooperation or BustAccording to estimates by the United Nations, the global economy expanded by 3.8% last year, continuing the strong performance recorded since 2003.

The world’s largest economy, the United States, expanded by 3.2 %, and growth also recovered in previously sluggish Japan and Europe.

Last year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government expanded the types of jobs that skilled foreign workers could hold in Japan, and the annual inflow of foreign residents to Japan has since increased.

And the big winners have been the financiers and skilled professionals who can take advantage of expanded markets.

But such efforts should be expanded to address immediate economic needs in the surrounding region.

He cautions that, if central banks’ mandates expanded to include, implicitly or explicitly, economic growth, they would move too close to the political sphere, undermining their independence and credibility.

If the “Growth Eight” economies expanded by 10% on average in US dollar terms, they would add $1.5 trillion to global GDP next year.

But the inconsistency between rhetoric and reality is long-standing: protectionism expanded under Reagan, including through the imposition of so-called voluntary export restraints on Japanese cars.

Democracies are necessarily softhearted, whereas markets are not; government action has expanded to fill the gap.

Expanded access to renewable energy would benefit African countries in many other ways, too, such as by reducing poverty, improving gender equality, enhancing sanitation, and limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.

And, in the wake of WWII, most countries erected elaborate social-welfare states in which the public sector expanded to more than 40% of national income on average.

Globalization allows these different functions to be carried out in different places, thereby allowing countries to participate earlier, when they still have few locally available capabilities, which can then be expanded over time.

With expanded meat consumption, soybean production alone would nearly double, implying a proportional increase in the use of inputs like land, fertilizer, pesticides, and water.

Kenya’s Equity Bank has grown enormously by explicitly targeting the financially excluded; in just six years, it has expanded from a half-million customers to almost six million.

Ultimately, hyper-human genetic enhancements will become feasible, too, and the economic and social advantages that wealthy countries maintain could be expanded into a genetic advantage.

Value-subtracting heavy industries shrunk, services expanded to over 50% of GDP, and the private sector produces almost 60% of Russian output.

First, as the global AIDS response expanded, it faced the dual challenge of including hard-to-reach communities while continuing to support a growing number of patients receiving treatment.

But if the TPP is to be truly effective in offsetting the trade sword wielded by a powerful, highly centralized authoritarian regime, it needs to be expanded to include India and South Korea.

Some of the targets that they identified – such as increased food security, expanded educational opportunity, and improved health care – were unsurprising.

But if the recovery is to be sustained credit must be expanded, either by creating new financial institutions or by expanding existing ones.

The international community, especially South Korea, should support North Korea’s efforts to build a more open, market-based economy through expanded trade and investment, while continuing to work toward a compromise on denuclearization.

But the making of Morales as a leader able to combine these three dimensions reflects two institutional reforms in the 1990’s that expanded social participation and opened up opportunities for new leaders and political movements.

Indeed, at the slightest provocation, Putin will be able to point to America’s hypocrisy for spying on, say, European Union facilities as part of expanded surveillance programs supposedly within the scope of the war on terror, and for hunting Snowden after accusing Russia of unfairly prosecuting the whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.

The attention being paid to fake information today arises from the hugely expanded speed with which digitally manufactured information travels around the world.

This is also true of an India that is only now coming to recognize its new status in the world, in which the country’s limits and responsibilities have expanded mightily.

In 2008, a Princeton University graduate student in philosophy named Russell Nieli gave a talk at the Princeton Center for Jewish Life that was so well received that he later expanded it into an article for the US-based magazine Tikkun, founded by Rabbi Michael Lerner.

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