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Since July 2010, the top decile’s wealth has increased three times faster than that of the bottom 50% of the population.
In the CER’s view, EU membership has increased UK trade in goods with other member states by more than 50%.
Increased community engagement and changes in hygiene practices have freed the women, men, and children of Los Palmas and the neighboring village of Jacob of cholera – a dramatic reversal from the last few years – and reduced their risk of contracting other water-borne diseases.
In fact, as my own research shows, the World Bank has already been misdirecting education reform in developing countries for three decades, by pushing for increased privatization and narrowly defined educational outcomes and accountability based on excessive testing.
Since he took office in 2001, President George W. Bush has increased America’s regular military budget by 30%, again not taking into account the cost of the wars he launched.
The result is that the many lobbies that oppose increased competition, or fight to protect state aid, have been hugely weakened.
The deal was signed and almost everybody was happy: passengers who fly cheaply; the airport, where the number of shops increased along with the number of passengers; the local community, where new jobs were created.
From 1997 to 2007, the share of income accruing to the top 1% of US households increased by 13.5 percentage points.
First, as a result of demographic and social changes, the marginal wage cost of production and minimum-wage levels have increased significantly.
If it does, we can expect to see increased tension between official measures and long-term goals, especially for monetary policy, development, and trade.
As a result, China’s new attempts to gain increased leverage from globalization are not without serious challenges of their own.
In the third quarter of this year, China’s foreign-exchange reserves increased by $194 billion, which far exceeded the country’s $66 billion trade surplus and $23 billion in inflows of foreign direct investment.
For public pension funds, an additional 1% yield during this period would have increased annual income by $40-50 billion.
Approximately 63% of global institutional investors increased allocations in developed-market equities in the six months prior to April 2015, according to data from a recent State Street survey – even though some 60% of them expect a market correction of 10-20%.
Government debt as a percentage of global GDP has increased at an annual rate of 9.3% since 2007.
To be sure, recent research suggests that increased government spending can be effective in temporarily raising output and employment during deep, long-lasting recessions when the central bank has reduced its short-term policy interest rate to zero.
Worse yet, the cost of delay and increased deficits and debt is enormous.
In the second quarter of 2016, Alibaba announced that its revenue from China’s retail market had increased by 49% year on year; another online platform, Tencent, reported a 52% increase.
In recent years, Venezuela’s crime rates have increased more than those of any other Latin American country.
Yet the quarterly US current-account deficit actually increased – from $195 billion to $205 billion.
Germany’s structural fiscal deficit has increased by 3.8 percentage points of GDP since 2007, compared to 6.1 percentage points in the US.
By attacking the children of military families, the Taliban has dramatically increased the likelihood that Pakistan will move resolutely against it.
The outrageous increases in financial executives’ remuneration in recent years, which cannot be attributed to increased productivity, have exacerbated the financial sector’s focus on the short term, while worsening its risk exposure in the longer term, thereby exacerbating systemic vulnerability.
From Ghana to Kenya, governments are having increased difficulty in raising money for infrastructure projects and selling official debt.
Since then, huge technological advances have occurred, and demand for resources has increased massively.
To that extent, 2018 seems likely to be a year of substantially increased risks, especially given the tensions in the Persian Gulf and Lebanon, the war in Syria, the hegemonic struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the nuclear brinkmanship on the Korean Peninsula.
And even though inequality of wealth and income in Britain increased in the 13 years Labour has been in power, this is thought to be something that a left-wing party might seek to correct, whereas there is no similar expectation for a party of the right.
They have not provided enough bank guarantees, forced enough mortgage renegotiations, increased spending enough, or financed enough employment to rebalance financial markets, return asset prices to normal configurations, and facilitate a rapid return to full employment.
He argues that much of the apparent growth in value added has in fact been illusory, based on increased leverage, excess trading, and banks writing deep out-of-the-money options – for example, credit-default swaps (a $60 trillion market in 2007).
But, beyond increased vigilance by the agency itself, what can the international community do?
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