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These results fit badly with the typical argument that short-termism has increased in recent decades.
Global risk-aversion has also increased, as the option of further “extend and pretend” or “delay and pray” on Greece is becoming less desirable, and the specter of a disorderly workout is becoming more likely.
Starved of cash, PDVSA was forced to cut back on maintenance and expansion, which increased the number of accidents and limited production.
Nor does increased Franco-American cooperation mean that all disputes are at an end.
But this increased cooperation does mean that France and America are at least willing to talk about the structures of security Europe needs in the wake of the continent's reunification.
Authorities could require that the percentage of biofuels blended with conventional fuel be increased when food prices drop and cut when they rise.
Banks’ capital requirements should, if anything, be increased.
Finally, Democrats must ensure that any increased spending or transfers – including wage insurance – is paid for, rather than being allowed to blow the budget deficit wide open.
Drought risk also increases with warming: even where rainfall does not decline, increased evaporation dries out the soils.
For the last 12 years, France’s GDP has increased by barely 1% a year, less than the mediocre uptick in the European Union as a whole, while unemployment currently hovers just above 10%.
According to many close observers, America’s attractiveness is declining in the region where the allure, or “soft power,” of others has increased.
Large expatriate communities in the US – 2.4 million Chinese and 1.7 million Indians – have increased interest in their home countries among other Americans.
In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others.
Food commodity prices have increased by 150% since 2001.
Growth has been strong, inflation is under control, and international reserves have increased steadily.
Moreover, in recent years, Latin American economies have gone through important economic transformations that have increased their resilience.
One need not be an economist to know that the perception of increased risk can be a powerful disincentive.
So, a major challenge now is that around the world there seems to be far more planning for export-led growth than acceptance of reduced competitiveness and increased imports.
But the much larger, longer-run effect comes from increased oil exploration and extraction, owing to the incentive of higher prices.
For security and environmental reasons, their energy efficiency increased via a combination of taxes, higher consumer prices, and public education.
In Greece, tax increases amounted to 13% of GDP during the same period, but the tax ratio increased by only six percentage points.
This time, unemployment over the last seven quarters has actually increased by 0.3 percentage points for each percentage point of growth, resulting in a total rise in unemployment of almost one percentage point since the end of 2015.
During the first seven quarters of this rally, the region’s average investment decreased by 2.2% for each percentage point of growth; in the past, average investment increased by almost 2.3%.
Firms that predicted a continuing boom – and therefore invested in expanding production and increased their workforce – were left with excess capacity relative to actual demand.
The value of our homemade solutions increased to some who had always favored ideas imported from the East.
Each crisis-hit economy had increased its financial leverage – the ratio of domestic credit to GDP – by 30 percentage points over five years shortly before their credit bubbles popped.
Although labor productivity significantly increased under NAFTA, total factor productivity – a better measure of long-term competitiveness – has been constant, and sometimes negative, for 25 years.
While the number of high-productivity firms has increased, the number of low-productivity firms has increased more.
Although Trump’s attacks pushed the peso down by as much as 50%, inflation has increased by only a few percentage points since his election.
To be sure, soccer players’ international mobility has increased the earnings gap between stars such as Drogba and Eto’o and their compatriots back home.
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