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In the US, which experienced a 1.8-percentage-point decline in aggregate savings as a share of GDP, the savings-to-GDP ratio among the young declined by 1.25 percentage points, whereas the figure for middle-aged savers actually increased by about 1.5 percentage points.
The increased flow of capital to the corporate sector will raise productivity and real wages.
These favorable effects are directly relevant to balancing the primary adverse effects usually associated with a fiscal deficit: that government borrowing crowds out private capital formation; that higher interest payments generally require higher taxes or reductions in spending on defense and nondefense programs; that a budget deficit implies an unwanted increase in aggregate demand when the economy is at full employment; and that a higher debt ratio leaves less capacity for increased emergency government spending.
In fact, the stimulative effects of the fiscal deficit and increased corporate investment should be welcomed, for two reasons.
For example, it is clear that wealth inequality has increased much more than income inequality over the past decade, with the rapid rise in urban housing prices playing a central role.
This has undermined the effectiveness of state institutions, increased costs (by requiring multiple contractual arrangements), and, in some cases, exacerbated corruption.
More recently, the Bank has increased its support for smallholders, but there is still far more that it can and should do.
Over the last five years, the wealth of those richest 62 people on the planet has increased by a staggering $542 billion, or 44%, while the poorest 3.6 billion people have lost over a trillion dollars, or 41% of their wealth.
It will also require increased funding for the development and delivery of new health tools to redress the conditions that disproportionately kill women and children in LMICs.
At the same time, it would facilitate social change that fuels increased productivity and output.
Draghi’s intervention marked the start of a new cycle: the doom loop reversed, and became a benign credit cycle in which lower risk premia allowed both banks and governments to refinance at lower rates, making more credit available to the economy and thereby fueling a recovery that increased government revenue.
When eight coal- and oil-fired power plants were retired in California between 2001 and 2011, the fertility rate in mothers living close to each facility increased within just one year.
If output increased, he and his the party could use this increase to improve the army, gain international influence, etc.Stalin thus had powerful incentives to make the domain he "owned" productive.
Even if rich countries choose increased imports, the growing volume of trade will merely expand an existing channel for routing the effects of an aging population onto developing countries.
For starters, the average value of inheritances (in constant dollars) increased by only 24% over that period, which translates into an annual growth rate of 1% – less than the 1.7% annual growth in net worth.
One is increased lifespans, which have led to a decline in the number of bequests per year and forced people to finance more years of life (including higher health-care expenses).
Whatever other goals lay behind the Iraq war, the Bush Administration seems keen to line the pockets of its cronies and to capture increased control over Middle East oil and pipeline routes.
Second, the public's faith in glamorous international cities has increased with the explosive growth in global communications due to the Internet and the cell phone.
The shift into labor-saving technologies shows no sign of reversal: since the mid 1980s the capital intensity of European firms has increased 6% relative to US firms.
Indeed, inequality of outcomes both in emerging and advanced economies has increased within and across generations.
Iran has gained increased influence in Iraq and Syria, owing to the effective military defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) – from which it has benefited even more than Russia.
Developing nations will need increased financial support to protect the poorest and most vulnerable.
As China enters an era of more subdued growth amid increased competition from other low-cost countries, this damage will become increasingly apparent – and increasingly destructive.
But Europeans are showing little taste for increased defense spending, Iraq or no Iraq.
Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.
Technical advances have also increased economic productivity.
The invention of crop rotation and mechanized equipment dramatically increased agricultural productivity and enabled human civilization to shift from farms to cities.
The official growth rate of China’s military expenditure – 15% per year over the last decade – has increased substantially, and there is much hidden military spending as well.
Indeed, recent assessments by the British Antarctic Survey suggest that temperatures over the Antarctic have increased 3.6 degrees since the early 1970’s, and that warming is taking place far faster than researchers had hitherto believed.
Although eurozone sovereign-debt markets have stabilized, the share of sovereign bonds held by domestic banks has increased sharply in the last few months, accounting for more than half of the net increase in debt emissions in some countries.
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