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These countries are being denied a useful tool for attracting FDI, with recent evidence suggesting that signing a BIT by itself does not lead to increased inflows.
The pessimistic argument ignored the fact that by lowering the cost of goods, machines increased workers’ real wages – enabling them to buy more – and that the rise in labor productivity enabled employers (often under pressure from trade unions) to pay more per worker.
Increased synaptic plasticity – the ability of synapses to adjust their strength, which is essential to healthy brain function – could be the neurobiological reason for the apparent therapeutic effect in patients.
A more ideological and antagonistic approach - in the form of increased political and social repression - could stir Iran's discontented masses, reviving the non-violent but radicalized reformists.
Although he is capable of providing people with increased political and social freedoms, he is simply unwilling.
The New MonopolistsSTANFORD – For more than 30 years in advanced economies, particularly the United States, wealth and income inequality have increased, real (inflation-adjusted) wages have risen slowly, and retirees have faced declining interest rates on savings.
One part of the answer is that rising monopoly power increased corporate profits and sharply boosted stock prices, which produced gains that were enjoyed by a small population of stockholders and corporate management.
But the recent shale-energy revolution has dramatically increased the output of oil and gas in the last five years.
Increased defense spending, together with the Bush tax cuts, is a key reason why America went from a fiscal surplus of 2% of GDP when Bush was elected to its parlous deficit and debt position today.
Some of the increased expenditures went to the costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the broader Global War on Terrorism, but much of it was wasted on weapons that don’t work against enemies that don’t exist.
Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.
Since the beginning of the year, both countries’ combined claims have increased by €180.4 billion, or €20 billion per month, on average.
If voters want to limit the cross-border movement of goods, services, and people, companies will have to adopt a new model that builds in more redundancy within borders; and investors will need to look for firms that can profit with minimal border crossings, or that can still generate a profit despite increased protectionist friction.
This way the increased demand for its industrial output would come from domestic rather than foreign consumers.
War on Iraq could also reduce the importance of Saudi oil in world markets because increased Iraqi production is likely when sanctions are lifted.
Yet in the second quarter of July, when the renminbi was declining rapidly, China’s foreign-exchange reserves actually increased.
After a dip in the number of incidents during late 2007 and 2008, violence once again increased in 2009.
During Donald Trump’s first year in the White House, the tension between the United States and these two countries increased markedly.
In the past decade alone, the cost of humanitarian aid has increased 600%, making it practically unsustainable.
Indeed, the government's market borrowing as a ratio of its total financing needs increased to 66.5% in the current fiscal year, compared to 20.6% in fiscal 1991-92.
Although the lax monetary policy environment of recent years has proven to be relatively efficient in supporting growth, greater fiscal discipline will be needed if increased private investment is to be attracted.
Since the 1950’s, developmental economists have understood that growth in GNP is not synonymous with increased welfare.
Of course, a country does not necessarily spend more on such items simply because it has increased revenue, and, even if it does, the programs it chooses to fund may not be effective.
Next, a sharp rise in the price of food exports, heavily taxed in Argentina, augmented government revenues, providing the cash to finance increased expenditure.
Emerging-market countries have increased their share of the world economy, giving them a more important voice in international relations.
Most notably, since the start of the financial crisis, Germany's current-account surplus has increased to nearly 8% of GDP, meaning that the country has accumulated more surpluses in that period than in its entire previous history.
These trends have brought substantial health benefits, such as better sanitation and increased food production, but have given rise to significant challenges as well.
From 1990 to 2010, death and disability from NCDs in low-income countries increased 300% faster than the rate of decline in infectious diseases.
Increased support for EEU membership could stem from rising frustration with the EU’s lukewarm attitude toward further enlargement.
The late British economist Angus Maddison once estimated that whereas global per capita GDP did not even double between 1 AD and 1820, it increased more than tenfold between 1820 and 2008.
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