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The number of bankruptcies has multiplied in a year, while the number of profitable enterprises has increased greatly, as a radical differentiation is occurring between successful and failing enterprises, signifying radical enterprise restructuring.
Still, political violence has increased as the campaign enters its final stage.
Increased uncertainty concerning the safety of deposits will push up interest rates and deepen Europe’s recession, and may also trigger capital outflows from the eurozone’s weaker peripheral economies to the core.
Moreover, the European Investment Bank’s lending capacity could be increased substantially, and European Union structural funds mobilized, to finance investment projects in the peripheral economies.
But this does not necessarily work in an imperfectly functioning monetary union, such as the eurozone, where the continual appearance of systemic flaws erodes confidence; in such circumstances, the result may be hoarding and capital outflows, rather than increased spending.
Extraordinary profits when their bets paid off increased their financial and political power – which they still enjoy – with taxpayers left to bail them out when their bets turned bad.
The African Development Bank’s capital was increased by 200%, as was the Asian Development Bank’s.
As a result, increased burden-sharing among Asia-Pacific countries is needed to confront shared threats like cross-border terrorism, pandemic diseases, climate change and environmental degradation, and trafficking of people, drugs, and weapons.
Indeed, Americans’ life expectancy beyond age 65 has increased by roughly 40%.
But, as technological progress has increased options for saving, extending, and improving lives, health-care costs have skyrocketed, raising Medicare costs from 3.5% of federal expenditures in 1970 to 15.1% today.
These decisions, along with increased life expectancy and escalating health-care costs, drove a massive increase in transfer payments over time, regardless of which party was in power.
They must also reform Social Security taxation and benefits through less generous indexing, increased means testing, and a higher income cap on Social Security taxation.
The number of people living on less than $1.25 a day increased from 549 million in 1981 to 595 million in 2005.
In India, which accounts for almost three-quarters of this population, the numbers increased from 420 million to 455 million during this period.
And the World Bank estimates that deeper integration, including liberalization of services and reform of investment rules would have increased per capita real GDP in 2005-2015 by 34% for Algeria, 27% for Morocco, and 24% for Tunisia.
At the bottom, the proportion of the population with an income below the poverty line increased from 13% at the start of Blair’s government to 20% now.
And, despite the government’s efforts, childhood poverty also has increased under Blair.
While increased use of renewable and nuclear energy will help reduce emissions, by themselves they will not be able to keep up with fast-growing energy demand.
Twiga’s approach has helped farmers access more lucrative markets, increased consumer choice, and dramatically reduced post-harvest losses and waste.
Go-Jek, a ride-sharing and food-delivery service In Indonesia, has increased drivers’ income by an average of 44% while connecting many of its suppliers, who are usually women, to banking services for the first time.
The Trumping of Cambodian DemocracyWASHINGTON, DC – Over the last year, Cambodia’s ruling party, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), has dramatically increased its pressure on its political opponents and civil society.
But in recent weeks, Hun Sen has increased the pressure, essentially ending Cambodia’s shaky attempts at democracy.
Given all the warnings, here is a slightly inconvenient truth: over the past two years, the global sea level hasn’t increased.
Because increased demand for bio-fuels leads to cutting down carbon-rich forests, a 2008 Science study showed that the net effect of using them is not to cut CO2 emissions, but to double them.
Despite these scary results, the interest-rate spread for Italian government bonds relative to German bunds has increased by only 40 basis points since the election.
This is an accomplishment well worth celebrating; but we must also bear in mind that with increased longevity come significant long-term economic consequences – and that many societies are aging at a record speed.
In Mexico, for example, mortgage debt represents less than 10% of GDP, compared to about 50% of GDP in Europe and 82% of GDP in the US – a ratio that has increased more than fourfold in the last two decades.
During the past eight years, the economy put up exceptional indicators: GDP grew almost 70% (nearly as dynamic as China) and formal employment increased more than 30%.
This is the case in America, where nobody really worries if increased military spending will create a temporary deficit.
What are the real costs of out-of-town shopping malls in terms of increased traffic and loss of green spaces, for example?
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