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According to this view, healthy public and private balance sheets and existing infrastructure bottlenecks would provide room for increased investment and higher total factor productivity in many developing countries.
China’s non-financial corporate debt increased dramatically, partly owing to dubious real-estate investments.
While domestic and international contributions still flow during relief efforts, it is Ethiopia’s long-term investments that have increased the country’s resilience.
Though investment in public health increased significantly after 2000, leading to notable successes in the fights against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, there has recently been a marked shortfall in global spending on public health relative to need.
With this kind of income distribution, it would be surprising if growth increased the typical person’s sense of well-being.
Deflation increased real interest rates and curbed economic activity, thereby setting off another round of deflation, and so on.
Why has the US stock market done so well in recent months--the Dow increased over 30% since its low on March 11, 2003, and closed above 10,000 on December 11--even with the media reporting one financial scandal after another?
In fact, by the end of last year, capital inflows had pushed the dollar up to levels not seen in more than a decade, owing to expectations of large-scale deregulation, tax cuts, and fiscal stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and increased outlays for America’s supposedly “depleted” military.
Those policies increased inequality, deepened the divide between northern and southern member states, and slowed economic recovery.
Furthermore, these lapses have existed for a long time, and they do not seem to have increased substantially in recent years.
While inequality has decreased across countries, it has increased within them, in the advanced and developing worlds alike.
Meanwhile, the lower current-account surplus (as a share of GDP) could be a result of its increased investment-income deficit.
For starters, people tend to think of taxes as a loathsome infringement on their freedom, as if petty bureaucrats will inevitably squander the increased revenue on useless and ineffective government employees and programs.
Some form of debt-friendly stimulus might ultimately appeal to voters if they could be convinced that raising taxes does not necessarily mean hardship or increased centralization of decision-making.
But the major consideration driving them is profit, not the environment, as increased efficiency in energy distribution and, where necessary, storage, reduces the cost of producing renewable energy.
Machines were rapidly replacing human labor, holding out the prospect of vastly increased production at a fraction of the existing human effort.
But, in broad terms, the prophecy of vastly increased leisure for all has not been fulfilled.
What this means is that we have largely failed to convert growing technological unemployment into increased voluntary leisure.
At the same time, various other factors are reducing global resource consumption, including increased energy efficiency in residential, industrial, and commercial buildings, and lower demand for energy in transportation, owing to the proliferation of autonomous vehicles and ride sharing.
And with less intensive energy use and increased efficiency, energy productivity in the global economy could increase by 40-70% over the next two decades.
Reagan characterized the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and increased defense spending to challenge Soviet aggression and capabilities.
In the last eight years per capita GDP has increased, on average, by 3.2% per year in America, 2% in Europe, and only 1.2% in Italy.
This percentage is lower today than in 1970, while in the United States the equivalent number has increased from 65% to 78%.
Japanese demands to reconsider fell on deaf ears, and the initiative was put on ice only when US congressmen threatened economic repercussions and China increased pressure on Taiwan.
If money creation finances tax cuts rather than increased public expenditure, the impact will depend on how much consumers decide to spend versus save – a balance that may be unstable over time.
The result in many countries has been stagnant real wages, increased inequality, and a potential structural bias toward deficient nominal demand.
Given that wealthy people have a higher propensity to save, increased inequality tends to produce sluggish demand growth – unless, that is, the savings of the wealthy are lent to the poor.
Confidence in the EU has increased from 48% to 58% during the last three years, after a period of steady decline; skepticism about the European project dropped from 46% to 36%.
Ironically, it could also do great damage to the Mexican economy, likely resulting in increased undocumented migration to the US.
A second argument attributes the difference to income taxes, which, in fact, have increased significantly in Europe since the 1970's, while in the US income taxes fell from the early 1980's onward.
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