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By expanding our grasp of the vastness of the universe, science has, if anything, increased the awe and reverence we feel when we look up on a starry night (assuming, that is, that we have got far enough away from air pollution and excessive street lighting to see the stars properly).
These large fiscal deficits have been partly monetized by central banks, which in many countries have pushed their interest rates down to 0% (in the case of Sweden to even below zero), and sharply increased the monetary base through unconventional quantitative and credit easing.
In effect, the G-8 fulfilled only half of its promise to Africa – roughly $15 billion in increased aid rather than $30 billion.
The EU could, while offering increased assistance, encourage Ukraine to redefine itself as a bridge between East and West – as Finland, Austria, and even Switzerland have done in the past.
But with increased power comes increased responsibility.
But, even as the US stock market suffered one of its worst weeks since the financial crisis, the eurozone’s public-debt market has remained relatively stable, with risk spreads – which have usually increased amid market volatility – scarcely changing, even for the peripheral eurozone countries.
In most countries, government revenues fell, as domestic activities, such as construction, contracted much faster than exports increased.
One solution that will be on the agenda is the UNDP-supported Gender Equality Seal program, a unique initiative that certifies companies that have eliminated pay gaps, increased the number of women in decision-making positions, and worked to end sexual harassment on the job.
And the fixed-investment share of GDP has increased further in 2010-2011, to almost 50%.
Exports increased by 6.2% in 2005 and are expected to increase by 7.4% in 2006.
Job creation is strong, with total non-farm payroll employment having increased by 295,000 in February and the unemployment rate falling yet again, to just 5.5%.
As the IMF, World Bank, and WTO show in their report, free trade and globalization have certainly increased the size of the overall economic pie.
Consequently, employment and wages have also increased.
If a sustainability adviser quits a concrete factory and goes to work instead for a renewable energy project, can we really conclude that the number of green jobs has actually increased?
In addition to job creation, some researchers have blithely claimed that all sorts of other economic benefits will accrue from investment in alternative energy, including increased productivity, higher disposable incomes, and lower operating costs for businesses.
What matters is simply that the supply of the chosen commodity cannot be rapidly and limitlessly increased.
But, although they have increased their dependence on market forces, their governments continue to dictate too many major economic decisions, increasing the risk of imbalances or even crises.
Second, Trump brought Pakistan much more explicitly into his Afghan policy than Bush or Obama did, arguing that the country will face significantly increased US pressure to crack down on the terrorist sanctuaries along its border, from which insurgents launch attacks on Afghan and NATO forces.
The national debt has increased, with no offsetting asset placed on the government’s balance sheet.
Within three years of the law’s enactment, the number of cooperatives in China had increased ninefold, to nearly 400,000.
In the year-and-a-half since South Korea received a $57billion IMF bailout, and the 13 months since former dissident Kim Dae Jung became president, the currency (the won) has stabilized, short-term debts have been rolled over into long-term ones, foreign reserves have increased, and interest rates have been cut.
Ironically, it is the combination of increased literacy and modern technology that is fanning the flames of conflict between the two types of “reformers” – religious revivalists and Western-oriented modernizers.
It is ironic that increased literacy and adoption of modern technology have contributed not to intellectual growth, but to regional strife.
But the creation of the euro caused a sharp fall in interest rates in the peripheral countries, leading to debt-financed housing bubbles and encouraging their governments to borrow to finance increased government spending.
Moreover, as United States troops have lowered their profile, daily violence of the more random variety has increased.
Since 1983, the proportion of funding for mathematical and computational research that comes from the Biological Division of the US National Science Foundation has increased about 50-fold.
In an effort to appease the public, the Soviet leadership increased food imports – both directly (meat imports, for example, quintupled from 1970 to 1980) and indirectly (by increasing feedstock imports).
If anything, the economy’s dependence on exports of fuels and industrial minerals has increased, meaning that smaller price fluctuations have a greater impact on Russia’s fiscal and external position.
By slashing subsidies from regional budgets, federal revenues increased from 9% of GDP in 1998 to 17% of GDP this year.
Rain gardens – small pockets of native vegetation planted in natural depressions and low points – can resolve this problem by collecting and filtering rainwater, so that it can be reabsorbed by the Earth, resulting in recharged aquifers and increased biodiversity.
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