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Such positive results helped to drive the course’s
expansion.
While the Mental Health First Aid course’s rapid
expansion
has helped to improve the situation in many communities, there is much left to do.
A more regionally integrated Indian economy would, by default, serve as a counterweight to China’s territorial
expansion.
With Chinese companies no longer able to sell a rapidly increasing volume of products abroad and support further
expansion
of productive capacity, the economy has lost some important growth, employment, and wage engines.
A senior Senator recently summed up the situation thus: if NATO
expansion
came to a vote in the Senate today.
(Of course, Krugman was arguing for fiscal
expansion
under a Democratic president, but the point still stands.)
With services in China employing 30% more workers per unit of output than manufacturing and construction, the sector’s
expansion
will help to preserve social stability, even as economic growth slows to 7%.
Any sober appraisal of what has actually happened since
expansion
would put the problems in perspective: when enlargement was agreed, the combined size of the ten new members’ economies roughly equaled that of the Netherlands.
Monetary
expansion
was one of the three key features of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic strategy – an approach that could have been implemented years ago to halt the yen’s sharp appreciation.
The fact that in Israel a parliamentary majority still permits the
expansion
of settlements – the construction of 200 new housing units was recently authorized, despite a warning from Obama – means that those who would undermine peace remain in action.
At the moment, the problem is even more serious, since the suspension of settlement expansion, which is key to any peace talks, is not supported in Israel.
One of the flaws of Wolfowitz’s anti-corruption agenda that
expansion
or continuation of aid for countries favored by the Bush administration, like Iraq or Pakistan, was pushed, regardless of how corrupt they were, while there was little tolerance elsewhere.
Such “credit expansion” – which is really just rolled-over debt – is not sustainable.
If China is to succeed in its economic restructuring, industrial upgrading, and
expansion
of high-productivity services, the role of SOEs needs to be once again limited to a few relevant sectors.
Containment’s goal was to prevent Soviet
expansion
without saddling the US with unsustainable military obligations.
In this context, NATO’s
expansion
between 1999 and 2004 to include the Baltic states was, in my view, a serious mistake.
This pool of reserves surpasses developing countries’ immediate liquidity needs, leading to their increased creation and
expansion
of sovereign wealth funds, which have an additional level of assets of more than $3 trillion.
We propose that a very small portion of developing countries’ total foreign-exchange reserves – say, 1% – be channeled to the
expansion
of existing regional development banks or the creation of new ones that would invest in infrastructure and other crucial sectors.
For we can now see that the future EU expansion, indeed, of the European Union itself is riding on the success of the single currency.
But that is no reason to delay the
expansion
of investment cooperation.
Rosneft’s
expansion
takes this logic to a new level.
In the case of Japan today, the exchange rate is being determined less by its own monetary
expansion
than by America’s move toward monetary tightening, following a period during which massive quantitative easing (QE) by the US Federal Reserve put upward pressure on the yen.
If, for example, meeting domestic inflation and employment targets requires greater monetary
expansion
– which will place downward pressure on the local currency, bolstering the economy’s international competitiveness – other countries may have to pursue their own monetary
expansion
to maintain optimal domestic inflation and employment rates.
Fortunately, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in 2013, he recognized the need for monetary expansion, making it one of the three “arrows” of his strategy – dubbed Abenomics – for economic reform and recovery.
Monetary
expansion
that depreciates the currency is more effective than monetary
expansion
that does not, especially when, as is the case now, there is very little scope for pushing short-term interest rates much lower.
The
expansion
for some products exceeds 30% in a year, while other industries continue to contract.
More recently, socially conservative states have appealed to the Tenth Amendment to oppose progressive legislation and the
expansion
of federal powers more generally.
Rather, the problem is rooted in the period from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, when bipartisan majorities enacted – or supported the
expansion
of – the popular Social Security and Medicare programs, which provide, respectively, pensions and health care to senior citizens.
The Israeli government is not interested in changing the status quo; its strategy of continued settlement
expansion
carries minimal diplomatic, economic, and security costs.
While the current situation on the ground stagnates – amid continued settlement expansion, extensive Israeli military control, and anemic Palestinian institutions – an emerging generation of Palestinians is determined to take the stage.
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