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Under her leadership, Congress has pursued a populist agenda that increased transfer payments and reduced India’s annual economic-growth rate to less than 4% in 2013.
BERKELEY – US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made large tax cuts for top earners a high priority, arguing that such cuts will stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and pay for themselves through increased revenues.
Beyond being a moral travesty, childhood poverty costs the US an estimated $500 billion per year (nearly 4% of GDP) in terms of forgone future earnings, higher crime rates, and increased health-care costs for these children.
Even though China instituted new initiatives in industrial safety at the beginning of 2003, official estimates indicate that industrial accident deaths increased by almost 10% last year.
The increased demand for Greek goods and services would raise Greece’s GDP, increasing tax revenue and reducing transfer payments.
But, because Greek euro bonds were regarded as a close substitute for other countries’ euro bonds, the interest rate on Greek bonds did not rise as Greece increased its borrowing – until the market began to fear a possible default.
The benchmark interest rate for Latin American bonds – the ten-year US Treasury bond – has increased by about one percentage point since the election, and the US Federal Reserve could now push interest rates higher.
Unfortunately, while visitors to Bethlehem have increased in number during the past year, many are unable to explore the city properly.
Slow growth and increased inequality add fuel to the political fire.
In fact, the US economy has increased its dependence on international trade.
According to World Bank data, from 1995 to 2015, merchandise trade as a percentage of total GDP has increased by 4.8 percentage points.
The EU could offer increased funding to support refugees in North African countries, which, in return, should develop robust protection policies of their own.
Surges in cheap imports have greatly increased US workers’ spending power.
Yet there was also frustration and bewilderment, as vocal opponents of foreign aid began to oppose the increased funding for disease control.
As Asian economic growth has increased, consumption in the region has also risen.
Back then, there was a debate between those who wanted to contain China’s growing strength increased and those who urged China’s integration into the international system.
China’s military power has increased, but its behavior has been more moderate than it was a decade ago.
Japan’s ground forces are to reorient their current structure, which is geared to combat capability in response to large-scale invasion, toward increased adaptability for military action in less severe circumstances.
The researchers find that the full 20-20-20 plan would actually mean “increased energy imports as well as increased price risks” – mainly because the tax imposed on electricity to achieve the efficiency target of the 20-20-20 plan will affect nuclear power the most.
If people are risk-averse enough that increased fear of the future causes them to save more, rising global uncertainty will raise bond and stock prices, and lower interest rates and dividend and earnings yields.
Higher competition and increased consumer demand are not really part of the vocabulary of such an economic system.
As a result, rapid economic growth can only be achieved with state funds and state-attracted foreign credit investment, which can only result in increased state control over the economy.
The economy's dependency on raw material exports actually increased when world oil prices rose and export revenues consequently grew, which was especially apparent with the ruble's devaluation.
That is when the third arrow, which aims to boost Japan’s potential growth through structural change (including increased private investment, technological innovation, improved trade links, and reformed corporate-tax policy), will become far more important.
Research shows that when there are significantly more men than women, the increased competition for female partners can lend itself to violence.
Bernanke’s original speech emphasized several factors – some that decreased the demand for global savings, and some that increased supply.
According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.
Quality has also increased and, thanks to efficiency gains, the costs are a fraction of what other countries pay.
While the open, meritocratic selection of “scholar-officials” helped to sustain China’s closed dynastic governance structure for more than 2,000 years, it could not offset the system’s growing fragility under the Qing Dynasty, as territorial gains increased the empire’s population from 150 million to 450 million.
After all, for too many years leading up to the global financial crisis, America “bought” and “borrowed” its growth by leveraging balance sheets, rather than “earning” it through increased competitiveness.
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