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By contrast, military lobbying now deeply influences foreign and defense policies – witness China’s double-digit increase in defense spending and rising US arms sales in the region.
An overwhelming number of Burma’s Buddhist monks have found it difficult to bear the central and regional governments’ efforts to corrupt their monastic orders, and to misuse the example of the monks’ self-restraint to increase the pressure on other believers.
In anticipation of worsening food and energy security concerns in the future, ASEAN has set priorities for programs that increase productivity and production, strengthen policy coordination on agricultural trade, and boost efforts to alleviate poverty.
I believe that Japan’s strategic role in the region will only increase, because its economy and industrial production chains have been regionally integrated.
And, of course, better training in basic skills can also ultimately boost economic growth and increase social welfare.
Its further increase could lead to counterproductive protectionist measures.
When boom turned to bust, falling global demand hit China’s export sector, and threatened to increase unemployment.
Since 2008, credit has surged from 125% of GDP to more than 210% of GDP, enabling investment to increase from 42% of GDP to nearly 48% last year.
According to the Bank, a 10% increase in infrastructure investment is associated with GDP growth of 1%.
To support those objectives, Le Pen promises to increase French defense spending to 3% of GDP (the NATO target is 2%), while making it clear to voters that none of that spending would support stabilization missions in Africa.
Moreover, China is already the world’s largest oil importer, and energy demand continues to increase rapidly.
Over the last eight years, China’s economy has grown by an average of 10% annually – a total increase of around 115% – leading to a 53% increase in CO2 emissions.
These differences increase gains from trade; indeed, exploiting such differences is the entire point of trade.
But, as Lagarde regularly reminds her audiences, another, often-overlooked remedy is to increase the economic participation and advancement of women.
And no single measure would do more to reduce global oil consumption than a sharp increase in the tax on gasoline in the country that consumes more of it than any other: the US.
The most obvious solution is to increase the number of permanent members from five to eight or nine (including Germany, Japan, India and possibly Brazil) and to change the voting rules, so that two or three permanent members--rather than just one--are needed to block an action.
As these simulations become more realistic, their training value will increase.
They must also end public subsidies for coal as soon as possible, within the next few years, while ensuring that poor and vulnerable communities do not suffer from an increase in energy prices.
Under this scenario, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) would favor an increase in interest rates, while the FPC would want to loosen monetary conditions.
The rise in wealth induced consumers to increase spending, which restarted the usual expansionary multiplier process, with GDP up by 2.5% in 2013 and the unemployment rate falling from 8% to 6.7%.
A further motive of the ECB’s bond purchases has been to increase the cash that eurozone banks have available to lend to businesses and households.
But, as of now, there has been very little increase in such lending.
This has been a by-product of the increase in real demand, achieved by reducing unemployment to a level at which rising wages contribute to faster price growth.
The ECB’s quantitative easing policy can probably achieve higher inflation only through the increase in import prices resulting from a decline in the value of the euro.
But past experience and the reasons spelled out here suggest that these policies will do very little to increase real activity and price inflation in the eurozone.
Germany currently has the highest inequality in private wealth in the eurozone, and it has experienced a sharp increase in wage inequality over the last two decades.
In fact, many Germans anticipate a further increase in inequality.
More controversially, the ECB needs to increase its purchases of Italian bonds.
The resulting increase in investment would boost growth and lower the revenue loss; but congressional Republicans, who favor a revenue-neutral tax reform, would still face a challenge.
Adopting a territorial system would increase investment in the US, stimulating productivity and growth.
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