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In Nairobi, increased agricultural activity in the Upper Tana watershed resulted in such heavy sediment runoff that it reduced water flows downstream to the city.
This results in growth-promoting structural change, as increased demand spills over to non-agricultural sectors.
In total, every dollar spent on increased migration would produce more than $45 of social good – possibly more than $300.
Epigenetic processes that cause key anti-cancer genes, such as the tumor suppressor P16, to be switched off could explain the increased prevalence of lung cancer.
First, trade surpluses with other countries are important – so important that it does not matter if the increased US exports mentioned in press releases after foreign visits are real or virtual.
When Einstein managed to generalise his theory and introduced the curved space-time, in which light bends around heavy astronomical bodies, the number of nominations increased even more.
The consequences of maternal malnutrition are far-reaching, including higher child-mortality rates, more birth defects, increased susceptibility to infection, and specific nutritional deficiencies that can lock a child into a vicious cycle of poor health early in life.
To curb inflation, Argentina decided to suspend the sale of wheat to its principal export market, Brazil, where the price of bread had increased 20% over the last 12 months.
At a minimum, the eurozone’s weaker members will undergo increased market pressures.
Add to that increased lending from China and huge capital inflows propelled by low US interest rates, and the emerging economies were thriving.
Reducing global population is implausible, and deliberately reducing the size of the global economy would result in increased hardship for billions.
No doubt that proportion has only increased in the years since.
Increased debt and budget deficits are one likely result, putting at risk the accomplishments of more than a decade of effort to reform the economy.
Beyond the financial costs of larger police forces and increased pressure on the judicial system is $60 billion a year in spending on state and federal prisons, up from $12 billion 20 years ago.
Both features increased global savings.
As savings (and hence the global supply of loanable funds) increased, real rates came under downward pressure.
The increased use of referenda in the world’s developed democracies seems a direct outgrowth of the turn toward consumer-oriented politics.
These “sudden stops,” as the economists Guillermo Calvo and Carmen Reinhart call them, raised risk premiums and weakened the affected countries’ fiscal positions, which in turn increased risk, and so on, creating the vicious downward spiral that characterizes self-reinforcing crises.
Despite scientific evidence demonstrating that the increased intensity and frequency of hurricanes is related to climate change, the Bush administration systematically rejects participation in international climate-protection regimes.
Iran’s acquisition of the bomb, on the other hand, could bring increased stability to the region, as the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction demonstrated in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Of course, there are downsides to patent law expansion, prime among them the increased incidence and cost of litigation.
Although the stimulus package of tax cuts and increased government outlays enacted earlier this year will give a temporary boost to growth, we are unlikely to see the start of a sustained upturn until next year at the earliest.
They note that construction activity is rising, home prices are declining more slowly, disposable personal income increased in the first quarter, consumer spending is up, and the labor market is improving.
Such leadership might enable Macri to rejuvenate the troubled Mercosur bloc, which includes several Latin American countries and could support national efforts to reduce poverty through increased trade and investment.
Between 1959 and 2005, about half of the growth of the middle class’s income came from increased net government expenditures.
And climate change is compounding both problems, wearing away at the glaciers and snowpack that serve as natural regulators of water flow, even as increased erosion caused by flooding contributes to the siltation of major reservoirs.
The outlook for the future is no less alarming: worsening water stress, increased flash flooding, and the depletion of the country’s water reservoirs.
Periodic contributions from wealthy governments have propped up lending to poor countries, but these are unlikely to be increased, and some may be discontinued as donors redeploy aid budgets to refugee programs.
And its efforts to speed up the process, which began in 2013, have reduced the average time only slightly, from 28 months to 25.2 months; in some regions (accounting for a third of the Bank’s lending), the wait has actually increased.
These changes have increased the complexity of the international investment regime, and should broaden interest in developing a more effective investment-protection framework.
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