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What has changed is our increased assertiveness in our efforts to ensure greater stability and human welfare in our region, evident in our advocacy of freedom, democracy, and accountability not only for ourselves, but also for others.
He found that in the formal sector, jobs for locals actually increased after the influx of refugees, apparently because of the stimulative effect on the region’s economy.
The second future could hardly be more different: an Asia of increased tensions, rising military budgets, and slower economic growth.
Tax benefits and monthly allowances for couples with children and reduced support for contraception are among the most common means of encouraging increased fertility.
Lending between banks, as well as deposits placed by large corporations, increased spectacularly in the years leading up to the crisis.
In the Czech Republic and Slovenia, life expectancy has increased from 71 to 77, similar to other Central European countries.
Turning this vicious circle into a virtuous one – in which increased openness drives faster growth – will depend, at least in part, on making immigration more compatible with inclusionary forms of nationalism.
Likewise, all EU members would gain from the increased resilience afforded by greater investment in energy transmission.
From the beginning of the century until very recently, Russia was flooded with petrodollars; as the flow of money increased, so did Putin’s audacity and aggression.
As prices rose and production increased, this contribution increased substantially, averaging $73.5 billion annually from 2001 to 2004.
Furthermore, as Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel has pointed out, regulators increased margin requirements several times this year, making it harder to buy stocks with borrowed money.
Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline items like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial inputs to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.
In addition, the fall in incomes would have automatically reduced tax revenue and increased various transfer payments.
That can’t happen without increased wages and purchasing power for workers.
To make a real difference, especially in the near term, the world must combine mitigation and adaptation with increased research and development into carbon-saving and sequestering technology, which in turn requires designing and exploiting market-based incentives.
As the Economic Commission for Africa concluded in its recent report: “Civil society and the media have increased their voice and power in the last decade of democratic reforms.”
Perhaps inevitably, the SCO – and Russia and China as its leading members – regards NATO’s increased presence in the region with some mistrust.
But in bad times, when it is important to keep banks lending, bank capital would automatically be increased by the debt-to-equity conversion.
At the same time, Brazil is pursuing increased bilateral defense cooperation with African partners.
Much of its wealth reflects the increased value of energy, not productive economic activity.
That means that oil prices have increased in other countries, which should have reduced, not increased, demand.
This is because high oil prices raised inflation in the United States, worsened the US trade deficit, and increased the likelihood of a US recession by acting as a tax on consumer spending.
Just consider how the current bout has raised global inflation, lowered incomes of the global poor, weakened the dollar, deepened the US trade deficit, aggravated global financial instability, and increased the likelihood of a global recession.
Much of the increased cost will be carried over to consumers.
This implies that if Iraq increased its oil exports by one million barrels a day--which it could quickly achieve with a cessation of attacks on its infrastructure--it would have around $10 billion per year in additional revenues to begin reconstruction.
China’s trade with North Korea has increased from around $1 billion in 2005 to more than $5.1 billion in 2011.
Inequality has increased, poverty has been reduced only slightly at best, employment remains stubbornly low, corruption, violence, crime, and political gridlock continue unabated, and foreign investment and free-trade agreements with the US have yet to deliver the goods.
The national debt has increased by 50% in eight years, with almost $1 trillion of this increase due to the war – an amount likely to more than double within ten years.
Moral hazard has been curtailed but the risks of investing in emerging markets increased.
Food production increased greatly with the quest for food security and the Green Revolution from the 1960’s to the 1980’s, owing to considerable government and international not-for-profit support.
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