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In fact, the offshoring of manufacturing increased by 9%.
Indeed, for sectors in which Chinese imports accounted for at least 40% of demand in 2011, the import share has increased at a faster pace than it has for manufacturing overall.
It is not that politicians were “bought” in a simple sense; rather, they convinced themselves that financial innovation opened the gate to greater general prosperity, increased home ownership, and, of course, popular support in elections.
In September, the always sharp and thoughtful Nouriel Roubini of New York University attributed this trend to positive shocks to aggregate supply – meaning the supply of certain goods has increased, driving down prices.
Meanwhile, power generation from non-fossil-fuel sources increased by 19%.
Electricity generated by strictly green sources – water, wind, and solar – increased by 20%, with the most dramatic growth occurring in solar power generation, which rose a staggering 175%.
China increased its ability to generate electricity from fossil fuels by 45 gigawatts, to reach a total of 916 gigawatts.
At the same time, it increased its capacity to produce electricity from non-fossil-fuel sources by 56 gigawatts, achieving a total of 444 gigawatts.
The share of energy investment going into renewable electric generation has increased steadily, reaching 50% in 2011, up from 32% just four years before.
The proportion of the world’s GDP that is exposed annually to tropical cyclones increased from 3.6% in the 1970’s to 4.3% in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
In the US, wages for the top 1% of earners increased by 138% from 1980 to 2013, while wages for the bottom 90% grew by just 15%.
During the bubble years before the 2007 crisis, prices and wages increased sharply in the eurozone periphery, relative to Germany, which was plagued by high unemployment and stagnant wages.
In 2010, when the IMF last increased its financial resources, the emerging economies agreed to the deal only if their voting share within the IMF was increased by around 6%, with Europe losing around 4%.Now emerging markets are demanding an even greater share of power.
The volume of air traffic increased.
Since Iranian leaders daily proclaim their desire to wipe Israel off the map and to fight the US (Ahmadinejad stepped on a picture of an American flag on his way to vote), the risk of confrontation has increased.
In 2004, for example, the United States Food and Drug Administration told drug manufacturers to print warnings on certain antidepressants about the increased short-term risk of suicide in adolescents using them, and required increased monitoring of young people as they started medication.
In 2014, global investment in renewable energy increased by 17%, even as oil prices plummeted, according to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
High prices spur increased investment in oil.
Over the course of Reagan’s two terms in office, the US budget deficit as a share of GDP rose to nearly double what it had been under the two preceding administrations, and the national debt increased by hundreds of billions of dollars more than it otherwise would have.
Balance sheets that had to be prepared in the local currency suddenly hemorrhaged equity as their liabilities increased.
The European Central Bank has decided to keep interest rates at zero, at least at the short end of the curve, even though the US Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate has already increased to 2%.
After evacuating hundreds of its citizens from Libya in 2014, China increased its participation in United Nations peace-keeping missions.
By 1993, the number of wild boar had increased sixfold, before halving due to a disease outbreak and predation from the rapidly growing wolf population.
It is a brave politician who points out how much liberalizing trade and opening up markets have increased our overall prosperity.
Nonetheless, in 1978, Deng Xiaoping not only delegated authority to local governments, but also increased their revenue through a system of fiscal contracting, in an effort to maximize their contribution to overall GDP growth.
Since President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign in 2012, China’s overall economic performance has not improved, partly owing to local officials’ increased reluctance to take bold steps to boost growth.
Russian military redeployments, exercises, and threats have increased insecurity across Europe.
Many small, landlocked African countries will never become serious players in the global economy without increased cooperation within their own regions.
Economic integration must be backed up by increased intra-regional trade; less than 4% of Africa’s trade is between African countries, compared to over 70% in Europe and over 50% in Asia.
Workers were eventually absorbed by other sectors, particularly with the growth of industrial manufacturing, and average wages and overall prosperity increased dramatically – an excellent illustration of the so-called “Luddite fallacy.”
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