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This system, which allows organs to be harvested also from refusers who have failed to express their refusal, has not increased trust in medicine, either.
The fall in house prices also led to a sharp rise in mortgage defaults and foreclosures, which has increased the supply of homes on the market and caused house prices to fall further.
More specifically, the rising unemployment rate, along with the large number of employees on involuntary part-time work, has increased the number of people who cannot afford their monthly mortgage payments.
The savings generated in East Asia and the major oil exporters have increased global liquidity, helping to finance the US current account deficit, which has now reached unprecedented levels.
(To be sure, in the medium or long run, monetary expansion can facilitate increased domestic production and trade, thereby generating positive spillover effects.)
During the last 31 months, private-sector employment has increased by 5.2 million and the unemployment rate has now fallen below 8% for the first time in nearly four years.
Instead of leading to an explosion of drug consumption, as many feared, the number of people seeking treatment increased and overall drug use fell.
Last year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government expanded the types of jobs that skilled foreign workers could hold in Japan, and the annual inflow of foreign residents to Japan has since increased.
Fortunately, the outlook appears promising, with increased private-sector confidence, rising capacity utilization, and an encouraging sales outlook for companies.
Xi’s agenda offers only vague promises of increased property rights for farmers, while recent government pronouncements indicate that the bureaucracy wants to restrict such rights.
According to a recent United Nations report, the number of Africans living in extreme poverty increased by almost 40%, to 414 million, from 1990 to 2010.
For example, trade in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2013 increased by 91.6% year on year.
Higher productivity implies faster economic growth, more consumer spending, increased labor demand, and thus greater job creation.
With increased help to African farmers to grow more food (as opposed to shipping food aid from the US), it would be possible to double or even triple crop yields.
Subsidies that SaveWas France’s recent wave of protests against an amendment that would have increased employers’ freedom to fire young workers a blessing in disguise?
Revenues have been increased, without placing additional burdens on vulnerable social groups.
Aside from achieving what the EU now deems a “functioning market economy,” key political and legal changes, which I have overseen as Minister of Justice, range from increased transparency and control in the funding of political parties to a shakeup of the judiciary.
We could not have achieved the economic and political reforms that qualified us for EU membership if we had not subjected policymaking to public scrutiny and accepted the increased public participation in decision-making that inevitably accompanies such openness.
We still have a long way to go, and accelerated R&D to develop new drugs and vaccines can be achieved only with increased funding.
In Kenya, Tax Inspectors Without Borders, a project led by the OECD, found that every dollar spent working with authorities on cracking down on tax avoidance produced $1,290 in increased revenues.
India’s 2011 Annual Status of Education Report showed that in 2005-2008, private-school enrollment increased by 38%.
Increased censorship and intimidation of foreign journalists, together with the imprisonment of dissidents and tighter restrictions on dissent, are an effort to ensure that economic disruption does not give rise to political rebellion.
He has increased the power of the Central Committee, which he chairs.
During the 25 years of the spectacular rise of Latin America democracy, per capita income has increased by a mere $300.
Even in Chile, which enjoyed high economic growth and cut poverty in half, and Brazil, which lowered the percentage of citizens living below the poverty line by a third during the 1990’s, the concentration of wealth has increased.
To be sure, at-risk men – for example, those with a family history of prostate cancer, African-Americans, or men with enlarged prostates who are treated with 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors (whose failure to lower PSA levels could reflect increased risk of developing prostate cancer) – may want to consider getting tested.
Rice yields in India increased from 1.52 tons per hectare in 1961 to 3.37 tons/ha in 2008 – a total increase of 122%.
The goal of full employment dropped off Western leaders’ radar, even though there was neither a threat of inflation nor additional benefits to be gained from increased openness.
And Saudi Arabia, the largest member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has increased production to defend its market share.
It is tempting to look at long-term oil futures – which increased gradually between 2000 and 2014, before falling abruptly after the November 2014 OPEC meeting – to predict where prices will go from here.
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