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By focusing on the areas in which their modernization agendas overlap – from education to public health to environmental protection – they can identify ways to increase their human capital’s efficiency.
Nonetheless, as lower oil prices and economic contraction undermine budget revenues, the deficit will increase from 0.5% to 3.7% of GDP.
When then-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin – who had presided over budget surpluses, helped to build up the reserve fund and cut state debt considerably – argued that Russia could not afford such an increase, he was fired.
Debt-to-GDP ratios tend to increase for countries that are in economic trouble.
The increase in private- and public-sector leverage and the related asset and credit bubbles are partly the result of inequality.
As part of this new model, the signatories committed themselves to provide access to new drugs for all those who need them, increase investment in R&D that meets global public health needs, and help slow the development of drug resistance in humans and animals.
To reap these benefits, African countries must increase domestic-resource mobilization substantially.
Over the coming decade, seizing that opportunity would increase the size of Europe’s economy considerably – by up to 5% over the next decade.
This translates into six million new jobs and an increase in GDP of up to €800 billion by 2020.
And it would gradually have to phase out treasury subsidies to BNDES – the country’s development bank – and increase the use of market-based references for BNDES’s lending rates, thereby helping to restore fiscal health and eliminate distortions in financial intermediation.
This is particularly true of greater labor-market flexibility, a key asset for long-term growth that can lead to a short-term increase in unemployment.
To be sure, a stronger currency might increase investment in services by raising the relative price of nontraded goods.
The only sure way of doing that is by purchasing additional imports, spending on which will inevitably increase.
For example, to cope with toxic drugs, a cancer cell may increase its rate of DNA repair, or actively pump the drug out across the cell membrane.
This means that high doses of chemotherapy might actually increase the likelihood of a tumor becoming unresponsive to further therapy.
Out of Step at the ECBThe European Central Bank remains seriously out of step with other key central banks in the industrial world despite recently announced coordinated efforts to increase short-term liquidity in the banking system.
Trichet even had to rescind the rate hike he had signaled for September, though he still claims the increase has been merely postponed, not abandoned.
For Africa this means “weather proofing” development by increasing food yields, investing in climate-resilient crops and infrastructure, promoting rainwater harvesting, and expanding medical control measures in anticipation of an increase in vector-borne diseases.
Failing to act now will increase costs in the future – both financial and humanitarian.
Burgeoning markets might disappear and investment opportunities evaporate, while the risk of political instability will increase.
Many individual donor countries have declared that they are now prepared to increase their financial support for smallholder agriculture, but are searching for the appropriate mechanisms to do so.
And, while higher-income and wealthier households have a buffer of savings to smooth consumption and avoid having to increase savings, most lower-income households must save more, as banks and other lenders cut back on home-equity loans and lower limits on credit cards.
Paying down debt on credit cards or mortgages also counts as saving – but increases in the value of existing assets like stocks or real estate do not, even though they increase the value of household wealth.
Or consider the claims – also rampant these days – that further government attempts to increase demand, whether through monetary policy to alleviate a liquidity squeeze, banking policy to increase risk tolerance, or fiscal policy to provide a much-needed savings vehicle, will similarly fail.
More generally, while China spends billions of renminbi in efforts to increase its soft power in Asia, its behavior in the South China Sea contradicts its own message.
The G8 leaders' commitment to increase support for polio eradication in Africa is promising.
Instead, they have focused on strategies for preventing the kidneys from filtering the infused hemoglobin; the hemoglobin from leaking through the blood-vessel walls; and synthetic hemoglobin from destroying nitric oxide (a gas produced in blood vessels that helps them to dilate and increase blood flow).
Counter-cyclical capital requirements fit with this idea, and a range of indicators could be used to calibrate the increase in capital requirements, coupled perhaps with some discretion.
An increase in monitoring may reduce, but still not eliminate the problem.
He made three main points: Germany didn’t have the capacity to pay were it to regain anything like a normal standard of living; any attempt to force it to reduce its standard of living would produce revolution; and to the extent that Germany was able to increase its exports to pay reparations, this would be at the expense of the recipients’ exports.
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