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Personal contacts between Indians and Americans have increased greatly.
China’s GDP is three times that of India, its growth rate is higher, and its defense budget increased by nearly 18% last year.
Thus, Japan has increased its aid and trade with India.
Moreover, Krugman overlooks inflation: prices have increased six-fold since 1969, so, while corn futures did set a record of about $8 per bushel in late July, the inflation-adjusted price of corn was higher throughout most of the 1970’s, reaching a whopping $16 in 1974.
Meanwhile, increased equity would advance corporate-sector deleveraging, helping to cushion the financial system against shocks and delivering higher real returns to savers.
Since 1983, average life expectancy of individuals in their mid-sixties has increased by about three years.
The price of the dollar has increased by a factor of over 100 since July 2017.
We have steadily increased education spending, which has risen from 12.5% of the total domestic budget in 2010 to 21% in 2015.
Malawi’s education sector has benefited greatly from balancing increased domestic investment with external support.
For example, more Malawian children are enrolled in primary school than ever before, and the rate of boys and girls completing primary education has increased dramatically, from 59% in 2007 to 80% in 2014.
The initiative could be dismissed as a weird irony, if it weren’t for its phenomenal costs, which include likely destruction of biodiversity, increased water use, and reduced global food production.
They are typically very astute at risk management, unlike many of the banks that dramatically increased their leverage – and thus their risks – during the last 20 years.
The second surprise in 2005 was that while oil prices increased far more than expected, the economic dampening effect seemed somewhat muted in most places, at least until the last part of the year.
Because of higher oil prices, for example, America’s spending on oil imports has increased by roughly $50 billion a year – money that otherwise would have been spent mostly on goods made in America.
Governments may also have to compensate communities affected by epidemics, fund research to treat illness or prevent future outbreaks, cover increased health-care costs, and sustain programs to help patients.
Western countries are quickly losing ground to China, which increased its exports to Africa more than sevenfold – to $103 billion – from 2005 to 2015.
Since 2007, employment rates have risen in only six of the 36 advanced economies, while youth unemployment has increased in a large majority of both established and emerging markets.
During the same period, a commonly used measure of monetary growth, M2, increased by only 6.8%.
And, indeed, opinion polls have shown increased support for the European Union in most, but not all, member countries since the referendum was held.
The truth is that the share of people living outside their countries of origin has barely increased in recent decades, standing around 3% of the nearly 7.5 billion people alive today.
In Africa, for example, road coverage on Google Maps increased from 20% in 2008 to 75% last year, while the number of towns and villages for which detailed maps are available grew by more than 1,000%.
The key reason for increased pessimism is that the government stimulus programs that raised spending since the summer of 2009 are now coming to an end.
In the United States, Gallup’s latest survey of “confidence in institutions” shows double-digit percentage declines in trust since the 1970s (or the earliest available measurement) for 12 of 17 institutions, including banks, Congress, the presidency, schools, the press, and churches; of the remaining institutions, confidence increased modestly for four, and significantly for just one: the military.
The second response to climate change, called “adaptation,” requires that we ready ourselves for the climate change now underway and the increased climate change to come in future years.
The price of oil has increased by 85% over the past 12 months, from $65 a barrel to $120.
Would the price of oil have increased less if oil were priced in euros instead of dollars?
But if the dollar-euro exchange rate had remained at the same level that it was last May, the dollar price of oil would have increased less.
In China, for example, CO2 emissions have increased 500% since 1981; but the country’s poverty rate plummeted – from 89% then to less than 10% today.
From 1990 to 2012, the net Gini coefficient – a common measure of (post-tax and post-transfer) income inequality – increased dramatically in China, from 0.37 to 0.51 (zero signifies perfect equality and one represents perfect inequality).
It only increased the opportunity for Ceausescu's clan and cronies to act arbitrarily, making the lives of most citizens hell.
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