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The elimination of IUU fishing would also allow our overfished stocks to recover and help build a prosperous Somali domestic fishery, along with increased government support and funding for data collection and resource management.
A recent paper by economists at the International Monetary Fund, using a new data set covering many countries, is fairly sanguine about the potential for increased redistribution without undermining economic growth.
Similarly, Kennan saw a need for increased US investment in Latin America, with business leaders deploying their “financial power” judiciously.
Second, globalization in general, and the rise of China in particular, has greatly increased competition on world markets, making it difficult for newcomers to make space for themselves.
Holding the 1994 World Cup in the United States increased soccer’s popularity there and led to the creation of Major League Soccer in 1996.
For those whose living standards have stagnated or declined in recent decades, even as political leaders have touted free trade and capital flows as the recipe for increased prosperity, the argument holds considerable appeal.
In the United States, for example, the Gini coefficient (the most common measure of inequality) increased by five points from 1990 to 2013.
The start of this turnaround could be associated with the other two trends, as the cumulative result of more favorable policies and increased labor per hectare, but it could also reflect the gradual spread of improved crop varieties that resulted from earlier investment in agricultural technology.
These three mega-trends put African farmers in a better position than ever before to take advantage of increased public and private investment.
Likewise, while the share in total employment of unpaid family members and own-account workers declined to 58% in developing regions in 2011, from 67% two decades earlier, their overall number has increased by 136 million since 2000.
Global primary-school enrollment has increased, especially since 2000, with girls benefiting most.
The increased government revenue that this generates (plus the decreased spending on the unemployed) pays for the extra borrowing without having to raise taxes.
With the US government now taking action on behalf of US firms, China’s industrial policies will need to change accordingly, especially if European governments follow America’s lead, as some may.There are many reasons why the current US government is acting so aggressively now, but two stand out: first, an increased sense of vulnerability proportionate to America’s declining global influence; and, second, the technologies China is now acquiring from foreign companies are frontier technologies.
There are many reasons why the current US government is acting so aggressively now, but two stand out: first, an increased sense of vulnerability proportionate to America’s declining global influence; and, second, the technologies China is now acquiring from foreign companies are frontier technologies.
Despite a grim environment, exports/GDP ratios have increased significantly in all four economies.
Confronted with domestic economic collapse and a stagnant European environment, firms in Greece, Spain, and Portugal have turned to overseas markets and significantly increased their countries’ shares of eurozone exports to the rest of the world.
Since 2007, labor costs have roughly stagnated in Greece, Spain, and Portugal (though the mix of wage cuts and productivity gains varies from country to country), and have contracted by 8% in Ireland, whereas they have increased by more than 10% in Germany.
Firms, especially in sectors sheltered from international competition, have retained market power and have increased prices in response to the rising cost of capital.
Medical and public health advances have increased longevity in developed countries, while persistently low fertility levels and the end of the post-WWII baby boom mean that the number of native-born workers will fall in the coming years.
Both rich and poor countries would benefit from increased migration, with developing countries benefiting the most.
As a result, annual plastics consumption worldwide has increased from five million tons in the 1950’s to around 280 million tons today.
Some of the prices that increased were those of commodities that Brazil exports.
Countries whose terms of trade improve also tend to grow faster and undergo real exchange-rate appreciation as domestic spending of their increased export earnings expands the economy and makes dollars relatively more abundant (and thus cheaper).
For example, from 2003 to 2011, Turkey’s inflows increased by almost 8% of GDP, which partly explains the 70% increase in prices measured in dollars.
At the same time, some countries will enjoy temporary gains, owing to longer growing seasons and increased access to minerals, hydrocarbons, and other resources in polar regions.
According to Eurostat, from 2007 to 2015, the average public debt-to-GDP ratio across all 19 eurozone member states increased from 65% to an almost-unsustainable 90%; and average annual GDP growth stagnated.
The BoJ has kept the rate of interest at close to zero since then, while the government debt-to-GDP ratio has increased from 99% (1996) to 237% (2012) because of permanent Keynesian deficit spending.
Indeed, enrollment rates for school-age females have increased steadily at all levels, reaching near parity with male enrollment globally.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation backed the new Global Fund, the WHO, and the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, which I led for the WHO in 2000-2001 (and which successfully campaigned for increased donor funding to fight AIDS and other killer diseases).
For centuries, communities grew as economic opportunities expanded; for example, farmers had bigger families as demand for products increased, requiring more labor to deliver goods to consumers.
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