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He changed the course of an unpopular policy in Iraq and Afghanistan; embraced counter-insurgency tactics based on less costly uses of military and cyber power; increased American soft power in many parts of the world; and began to shift America’s strategic focus to Asia, the global economy’s fastest-growing region.
The rise in taxation can be blamed on the IMF, with the increased revenues siphoned off for political purposes.
First, America increased the level of government support for science, reaching a sum of around $85 billion in this year’s budget.
Similarly, the European Union created the euro to give its members increased currency stability.
Part of the explanation for this is increased official control, part is declining public interest, and part is that Russia's problems nowadays simply seem less urgent.
The difficulties intensified when risk aversion in international financial markets increased markedly, owing to other emerging-market defaults.
We all stand to suffer significantly from the effects of climate change, including increased droughts, floods, and other extreme weather conditions.
Increased crop diversion to feed livestock will put upward pressure on food and land prices, making it increasingly difficult for the world’s poor to meet their basic nutritional needs.
And the US Department of Agriculture’s farm bill programs could provide increased support for free-range livestock operations, in order to encourage more sustainable approaches to meat production.
You and I may depend on each other, but if I depend on you less than you do on me, my bargaining power is increased.
Over the same period, however, annual deaths from cervical cancer have increased by almost 40%, to 266,000.
At the global level, the Anglophone deficit countries, too, would benefit much more if all of northern Europe increased its domestic demand.
This is when middle classes emerged and began to demand new social policies and an increased role for government.
And yet the number of bank branch jobs actually increased over time as costs fell.
Increased borrowing by the federal government also means crowding out the private sector.
Influenza vaccine supplies should be increased so that more individuals are inoculated.
But, according to Yasushi Ando, one of Japan’s best-known private-equity figures, giving a major borrower an increased say in how a bank functions would be a clear conflict of interest (link in Japanese).
While their stated aim was to save the euro, the government leaders involved did exactly the opposite, producing increased nervousness and volatility in financial markets, which in turn exacerbated Ireland’s problems.
That being said, the group reported that the CDR increased from 5.5 per thousand people in 2002 to 13.3 per thousand in the post-invasion period (March 2003-March 2006).
Nearly two-thirds of the expected growth would come from increased productivity, because businesses, financial-service providers, and government organizations would be able to operate much more efficiently if they did not have to rely on cash and paper recordkeeping.
Another one-third would come from increased investment throughout the economy, as personal and business savings were moved into the formal financial system, and then mobilized to provide more credit.
As the idea of interruption from work was extended to include the disabled and women bringing up children, so entitlements to income maintenance increased beyond the capacity of social insurance, with benefits paid to eligible individuals from general taxation.
In Afghanistan, Sweden has maintained – and even gradually increased – its troop presence in the northern province of Mazar-e-Sharif, where, together with Finland, it leads a Provincial Reconstruction Team.
The infrastructure has helped introduce new vaccines – such as pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, which protect against pneumonia, the biggest killer of children under the age of five – and increased coverage of routine immunization against measles and rubella.
Indeed, the impact of real exchange-rate depreciation on growth is likely to be short-lived unless increased corporate profits in the export sector lead to higher household consumption and investment.
In the 15 quarters since the beginning of 2008, real consumer spending has increased at an anemic 0.4% average annual rate.
For example, the German reforms of 2003-2006 increased flexibility significantly (though in a more benign global and eurozone setting).
Increased innovation and the rise of the services sector have helped China move beyond its role as the world’s factory to develop its own version of the Internet of Things, driven by platform companies like Alibaba and Tencent.
He then cited empirical work suggesting that financial deepening is useful only in the early stages of economic development, evidence of a negative correlation between financial deepening and real investment, and the withering conclusion of Adair Turner, Britain’s former top financial regulator: “There is no clear evidence that the growth in the scale and complexity of the financial system in the rich developed world over the last 20 to 30 years has driven increased growth or stability.”
Nor was this the first time: in 2000, when South Korea increased tariffs on garlic to protect its farmers from a flood of imports, China responded by banning imports of South Korean cellphones and polyethylene.
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