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In India, rapid growth is also underpinned by a substantial increase in investment, which now stands at around one-third of GDP.
Much of this increase has come from private sources, reflecting gradual relaxation of the shackles on the business sector since the early 1980s.
In the aftermath of the great recession, there are many ways in which these economies could put additional public spending to good use: to increase demand and employment, restore crumbling infrastructure, and boost research and development, particularly in green technologies.
They show that after a steady increase from 2004 to 2007, firm creation dropped sharply.
But even optimists don’t believe that real-estate prices will increase substantially any time soon.
For this reason, the current increase in debt/GDP ratios in southern Europe should not be interpreted as proof that austerity does not work.
Moreover, austerity has been accompanied by structural reforms, which should increase countries’ long-term growth potential, while pension reforms are set to reduce considerably the fiscal cost of aging populations.
Countries that can still afford fiscal stimulus and need to reduce their savings and increase spending should contribute to the global current-account adjustment – via currency adjustments and expenditure increases – in order to prevent a global shortage of aggregate demand.
But an ideology of anti-liberalism and Russian nationalism is a poor source of the soft power that the country needs to increase its regional and global influence.
Believers in oil scarcity point to the sustained annual average increase of oil prices from 2002 to 2008, declining output in many areas of the world, and the absence (until recently off the coast of Brazil) of large-scale oil discoveries in the last few decades.
While peak oil theorists have strong views about that, they do not allow for all the current and future technological possibilities that might increase resources.
It will be able to increase exports of clean, run-of-the-river hydropower to India, thereby earning foreign exchange in a manner that is sustainable and that can fill government coffers to fund education, health care, and infrastructure.
According to the European Commission, if as many women participated in the ICT workforce as men, Europe’s annual GDP could increase by €9 billion.
Brexit’s adverse impact on UK firms’ scope for development would further increase the economic cost.
Rising asset prices lead to a general increase in purchasing power, because many asset holders are willing (and able) to borrow more.
And yet, there they are, denouncing as “socialism” Obama’s health-care legislation, or a slight tax increase for the richest 1% of the population.
Such policies and institutional improvements increase productivity, promote competition, facilitate specialization, enhance the efficiency of resource allocation, protect the environment, and reduce risks and uncertainties.
China’s policymakers also need to introduce measures to increase labor-force participation rates, rethink wage policy, and make social-insurance programs portable nationwide.
The priority is to increase the quality of Rampamp;D, rather than just its quantity.
Being extremely conservative, we estimate the overall effect on the economy if only $5 or $10 of the increase is attributed to the war.
Capital outflows will adversely affect their equity prices, push up their debt-to-equity ratios, and increase the likelihood of defaults.
Moreover, the strongest quarterly gain was a 4.1% increase in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Meanwhile, an increase in the exchange rate is likely to contribute to inequality in China, as its poor farmers face increasing competition from America’s highly subsidized farms.
Even just the threat of such a strike could be destabilizing, if it drives concerned US allies such as South Korea and Japan to increase their military spending and reconsider their non-nuclear postures.
We should be negotiating an international agreement to increase radically spending on green-energy research and development – to a total of 0.2% of global GDP, or $100 billion a year.
It is delivering improved water security, a 25% increase in wages for agricultural workers, and more than 3.5 billion days of work, with the program as a whole reaching 30 million families per year on average.
A big increase in lobbying expenditures helps to persuade legislators to switch their votes.
Over the last quarter-century, rapid technology-driven globalization – characterized by the physical and virtual integration of the global economy, including the opening of world markets – has contributed to the fastest increase in incomes and population in history.
Greater openness and integration necessarily increase the potential for cascading crises and amplification of shocks.
List of priorities, outcome document from Copenhagen Consensus by UN ambassadors, June 16-17 2006 at Georgetown University:challengeopportunity1Communicable DiseasesScaled-up basic health services2Sanitation and WaterCommunity-managed water supply and sanitation3EducationPhysical expansion4Malnutrition and HungerImproving infant and child nutrition5Malnutrition and HungerInvestment in technology in developing country agriculture6Communicable DiseasesControl of HIV/AIDS7Communicable DiseasesControl of malaria8Malnutrition and HungerReducing micro nutrient deficiencies9Subsidies and Trade BarriersOptimistic Doha: 50% liberalization10EducationImprove quality / Systemic reforms11Sanitation and WaterSmall-scale water technology for livelihoods12EducationExpand demand for schooling13Malnutrition and HungerReducing Low Birth Weight for high risk pregnancies14EducationReductions in the cost of schooling to increase demand15Sanitation and WaterResearch to increase water productivity in food production16MigrationMigration for development17CorruptionProcurement reform18ConflictsAid post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict19Sanitation and WaterRe-using waste water for agriculture20MigrationGuest worker policies21Sanitation and WaterSustainable food and fish production in wetlands22CorruptionGrassroots monitoring and service delivery23CorruptionTechnical assistance to develop monitoring and transparency initiatives24MigrationActive immigration policies25Subsidies and Trade BarriersPessimistic Doha: 25% liberalization26CorruptionReduction in the state-imposed costs of business/government relations27Climate ChangeThe Kyoto Protocol28ConflictsAid as conflict prevention29CorruptionReform of revenue collection30Financial InstabilityInternational solution to the currency-mismatch problem31ConflictsTransparency in natural resource rents as conflict prevention32ConflictsMilitary spending post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict33Financial InstabilityRe-regulate domestic financial markets34ConflictsShortening conflicts: Natural resource tracking35Financial InstabilityReimpose capital controls36Financial InstabilityAdopt a common currency37Subsidies and Trade BarriersFull reform: 100% liberalization38Climate ChangeOptimal carbon tax39Climate ChangeValue-at-risk carbon tax40Climate ChangeA carbon tax starting at $2 and ending at $20The Eurozone According to MerkelBRUSSELS – We had almost given up waiting for them, but then they came in a quasi-clandestine form.
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