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Dozens more studies point to a potential link between low levels of vitamin D and increased cancer risk, particularly the risk of colorectal cancer (though, based on current evidence, it remains unclear whether vitamin D supplements actually lower cancer risk.
Moves toward increased exchange rate flexibility in China and other Asian countries, supported by financial sector reform, will have domestic and global benefits.
With increased membership, the enlarged EU will move towards greater unanimity, which makes decision-making even more difficult, and increases the likelihood of blocking coalitions of members.
But increased heterogeneity in a Union of 27 requires a more flexible institutional framework.
The campaign is just beginning, so there is still time to change the narrative and put Europe on a path toward greater influence and increased prosperity.
Since then, the Bank has significantly increased its lending for renewable energy, which totaled €13 billion in 2007-2010.
Paradoxically, then, the very conditions that made it impossible for the nuclear industry to deliver full power in Europe in 2003 and 2006 created peak demand for electricity, owing to the increased use of air conditioning.
Among the remainder -- those who participated in neither or only one wave -- opposition to increased price controls is weak, with only 26% disagreeing.
Restituents are also skeptical of increased price regulation: 46% of them disapprove of an increase in price controls, versus 38% of non-restituents.
Within a year of taking office, my predecessor increased the NFA’s debt to 18 billion pesos.
Within 20 years, GDP increased four-fold, while exports increased more than ten-fold.
Over the past two years, a project that our organization undertook with police forces and civil-society groups in Hungary and Spain found that, when stops were systematically monitored and data publicly reported, the proportion of stops that produced an arrest or other law-enforcement outcome actually increased.
In just the last 15 years, the average life expectancy of the wealthiest 5% of Americans has increased by two years for men, and three years for women.
Over the same period, the average life expectancy of the poorest 5% Americans has increased by just three months for men, and hardly at all for women.
Between 1960 and today, for example, average life expectancy in the US increased from 70 to 79 years, whereas in Italy it increased from 69 to 83 years.
Average US life expectancy has increased more slowly than in Europe partly because many white middle-aged Americans have, since 1999, been living shorter lives, owing to lifestyle-related diseases, opioid overdoses, and suicides.
Some observers have disparaged the IMF for this new approach, and argue that increased inequality simply reflects what people have voted for.
Rising inequality may also have increased vulnerability to crisis: with fewer people able to dip into savings during bad times, the impact on growth is even larger.
The issue is not only increased investment, but also of a change in the organization of research to reward creativity and excellence as measured by international standards.
Without improvement here the benefits of increased commercial competition cannot be fully reaped.
Over the last decade alone, vegetable production in the Asia-Pacific region, where more than three-quarters of the world’s vegetables are grown, increased by one-quarter.
Measurements of incoming solar radiation show that it has not increased in the past 50 years – in fact, the record even shows a small decrease.
But converting forest to farmland (which is brighter than forest) and adding smog particles to the atmosphere (which reflect sunlight) have increased the reflection of solar radiation, thus tending to offset some of the global warming that would otherwise have occurred.
What these experiences do have in common is they are generally driven by a desire to raise one’s living standards, whether through a more prestigious position, a higher salary, or increased physical safety.
The risks are asymmetric: if these forecasts are wrong, and there is a more robust recovery, then, of course, expenditures can be cut back and/or taxes increased.
The contribution period will therefore be increased gradually, reaching 43 years in 2035.
The official loans granted to the country by the European Central Bank and the international community have increased more than sixfold during the past five years, from €53 billion ($58 billion) in February 2010 to €324 billion, or 181% of GDP, now.
Average compensation per hour rose just 1.1% from 2012 to 2013, but then increased at a 2.6% rate from 2013 to 2014, and at 3.3% in the first quarter of 2015.
As the minimum wage is increased, employers’ incentive to substitute equipment or more skilled employees strengthens.
The basic point is that employment can be increased, and unemployment decreased, by removing barriers to job creation and reducing marginal tax rates.
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