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Proponents of free trade have always celebrated the growth of international commerce because they regard it as a sign that countries are capitalizing on their comparative advantages through specialization, which implies increased efficiency overall.
And they increased the scale and scope of domestic financial intermediation in order to reduce their vulnerability to external storms.
In the last century, the world’s population increased four-fold, and the number of people living in cities thirteen-fold.
At the same time, the number of companies receiving B Corp Certification – which measures a firm’s social and environmental performance – has increased in recent years.
Recently, since the Cyprus rescue, the private sector’s disadvantage, particularly for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), increased to crisis proportions.
Projections of European growth continue to decline, yet the outlook for government policy is for reduced spending and increased taxes as the fiscal stability and growth pact bites.
As the world’s dependence on oil increased, so did OPEC’s power.
Meanwhile, outlays for health increased from 9% to 11% of total spending.
As a result, the variety of schools has increased throughout Sweden.
Increased spending on social programs, as suggested in the ADB report, will not succeed if officials are syphoning state funds for personal gain.
Governments, with the support of the international community and multilateral institutions, would benefit from increased stability, and increased investment, by cleaning up their acts.
This can be achieved through a program for subsistence farmers that not only improves productivity, but also reduces weather dependency and provides simple financing instruments to encourage investment in new technologies and equipment, increased land ownership, and easier access to local markets.
This led to increased flows into the carry trade, which for a while increased its success, because higher inflows tended to exacerbate the weakness of the low-interest-rate currencies.
And China’s share of America’s publicly-held debt overhang increased more than five-fold, to nearly 11% ($1.3 trillion) by July 2013.
Unemployment has increased to 27.7%, the highest rate in 13 years.
In the last 60 y ears, the share of government output in GDP has increased from 21.4% to 38.6% in the US, from 27.6% to 52.7% in France, from 34.2% to 47.6% in the United Kingdom, and from 30.4% to 44.0% in Germany.
As a result, the percentage of Africa’s population living in extreme poverty increased from 41.6% in 1981 to 46.9% in 2001.
In the first part of this year, GDP increased 5% and industrial output by 11%.
I could, for example, have increased my popularity during my recent re-election campaign had I ordered the arrest of one or another of our domestic oligarchs.
Around the world, average life expectancy has increased from 48 to 71 years – albeit with significant differences between countries – and overall per capita income has grown by 500%.
Poor states that spend public money more wisely improved people's lives quite quickly: Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan illustrate the value of better governance;Other measures of development, such as the Indian Human Development Index (which includes literacy, infant mortality, access to safe water and durably constructed housing, as well as formal education, poverty ratios, and per capita expenditure), do not show increased inequality;Exclusive focus on the states ignores problems that are concentrated at lower levels: available evidence, albeit limited, suggests that decentralizing policy-making power that is currently exercised at the state level could lead to further improvement in overall economic performance.
At the height of the crisis, annual inflation reached 2,477%; at that rate, prices for food and household goods increased daily.
These practices can have a positive impact on profits through increased productivity, lower staff turnover, greater amenability to change, more innovation, and better, more reliable output.
By contrast, countries that had increased their education from 2.8 years of schooling in 1960 to 8.3 years of schooling in 2010 were only 167% richer.
As capital fled the country between July 2011 and January 2012, France’s TARGET debt increased by €95 billion.
Latin America and Southeast Asia have rapidly increased coverage, but at the current rate of progress in Africa, 50% of women will still deliver without skilled care in the year 2015.
But female students’ academic achievements have not increased women’s presence in top jobs.
Moreover, the increased supply of high-quality female labor will not incur additional healthcare and pension costs, unlike labor immigration.
When these children are old enough to enter the labor force, the proportion of income-earners in the economy could be increased substantially, boosting average per capita incomes.
Creating a Learning GenerationMEXICO CITY – Over the last 15 years, the number of students worldwide has increased by some 243 million, a reflection of governments’ commitment to expanding access to education.
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