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And if they develop renewable-energy sources and step up their conservation efforts, they can increase their energy exports.
The other major element of the reform package is an increase and rebalancing of the quotas that determine each country’s voting power and financial obligation.
The key obstacle to this proposal is the requirement of congressional approval to increase America’s quota share.
It would remain valid until the US was in a position to increase its quota and recover its voting share.
For example, competitiveness has to do with the ability to increase market share without sacrificing margins or lowering wages, something that reflects superior productivity.
The full rise in GDP will combine the 1.2%-per-year cyclical rebound with the increase in potential full-employment GDP.
The growth of potential GDP will reflect the structural rise of the labor force, the increase in the capital stock, and the improvement in multifactor productivity (i.e., the change in the output that results from improvements in technology rather than from increases in labor and capital.)
Although the capital stock will benefit from a higher household saving rate, the increase will be offset by more government “dissaving” as budget deficits remain high.
But if we are witnessing an increase in the power both of the Parliament and of the Commission President, where has that power come from?
This was accompanied by an increase in armed violence against the police, the military, and journalists, as well as by incursions into politics and diversification of criminal income through kidnappings, extortion, piracy, and human trafficking.
Whatever a country’s development level, investment in education and skills will increase the ability of its workforce to innovate and adapt to new technologies.
For example, since the 1987 stock-market crash in the United States, the importance of having circuit breakers has been recognized; but if improperly designed, such reforms can increase volatility.
Moving labor from low-productivity uses to zero-productivity unemployment does not increase output.
But China also has ample room to increase its tax base in ways that would increase overall efficiency and/or equity.
Excess capacity fuels downward pressure on prices, with negative externalities on indebted firms, which experience an increase in their real (inflation-adjusted) leverage.
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, a famous convert to environmentalism, drafted a “plan” (which he named after himself) to increase America’s reliance on renewables.
But, according to a recent World Energy Council report, unless governments and the private sector increase their efforts considerably, ending energy poverty could take another 60-70 years.
After initial allocations in 1970-1972, more were issued to increase global liquidity during major international crises: in 1979-1981, in 1997, and, in particular, in 2009, when the largest issue – the equivalent of $250 billion – was made.
But the public often views interest-rate increases as negative events that increase unemployment and stifle growth.
In the developing world, the share of the long-term unemployed continues to increase, reaching 40% in many countries, notably the US, the United Kingdom, and the debt-distressed eurozone members.
Rising inflows of private capital have been accompanied by large-scale national energy-sector reforms, which should help increase the availability of electricity.
For our part, we recently pledged to increase the World Bank Group’s climate financing to as much as $29 billion annually by 2020.
Encouraging the private sector to take stakes in SOEs in strategic areas like energy, power, and finance is supposed to increase competition, boost efficiency, and reduce pressure on the government to invest.
Although ISIS’s self-styled caliphate is on the brink of collapse, an increase in terrorist attacks abroad is possible.
All of this will mean a reduction in national saving and an increase in spending by households and the Chinese government.
If Americans’ demand for housing picks up and businesses want to increase their investment, a clash between China’s lower saving rate and a continued high fiscal deficit in the US could drive up global interest rates significantly.
Could a reduction in government expenditure (or an increase in taxes) lead to such a sharp decline in economic activity that revenues fall and the fiscal position actually deteriorates further?
Abandoning austerity out of fear that financial markets might be short-sighted would only postpone the day of reckoning, because debt ratios would increase in the long run.
For example, since 1990 Brazil has increased grain production by 125%, with an increase of only 24% in cultivated area.
Charity in Hard TimesPRINCETON – As I tour the U.S. promoting my new book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty , I am often asked if this isn’t the wrong time to call on affluent people to increase their effort to end poverty in other countries.
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