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Another form of spending to stimulate the economy would be increased outlays for defense.
An increase in outlays to 4% or more of GDP would be a significant source of increased overall demand and a crucial contribution to national security.
The high level of the national debt – about 77% of GDP now and heading to 97% at the end of the next ten years – would create strong resistance to either tax cuts or increased spending.
Increased migration is, indeed, a daily fact in our centrifugal and global modernity, but it isn’t only a negative one.
China, which has increased trade with Africa five-fold since 2003, has played a leading role in this turnaround, which has encouraged investors from elsewhere, including Europe and the United States, to rethink their approach to investing in Africa.
While proponents argue that investment treaties reduce uncertainty, the ambiguities and conflicting interpretations of these agreements’ provisions have increased uncertainty.
Their market power has increased, yet they know they incur no risk, owing to the aggravated systemic impact of their potential bankruptcy.
Across Europe, calls for “affordable energy” are fast becoming a euphemism for increased fossil-fuel subsidies and a rollback of commitments on green energy.
Increased cooperation with the International Monetary Fund on exchange-rate issues, and with the International Labor Organization on labor standards, could diminish trade tensions and enhance trade’s contribution to improving people’s lives.
The consequences of rapid aging are manifold: a shrinking workforce and a narrower pool for entrepreneurship, which undermines prospects for economic growth; a looming threat to the sustainability of “pay-as you go” public pensions systems; and increased health-care and other costs associated with an elderly population.
The Bank of England has moved from QE to CE (credit easing), and the Bank of Japan has repeatedly increased the size of its QE operations.
In many other countries or regions – for example, China, Korea, Japan, Israel, Germany, Italy, and Catalonia – upcoming elections or political transitions have similarly increased policy uncertainty.
A bigger part of this increased productivity comes from the extraordinary technological revolutions in computers and communications that have led to dramatic increases in the usefulness - and decreases in the cost - of high-tech capital.
In the 12 years since their commercial introduction, insect-resistant GM crops have increased yields while significantly decreasing the use of toxic pesticides.
Statisticians struggle, for example, to account for how consumers are benefiting from the increased quality and speed of delivery that often results from digitalization.
According to the OECD, from 2000 to 2013, the prevalence of obesity increased by at least 0.5% per year in 130 of the 196 countries for which data were collected.
Asian countries increased their dollar debts markedly during this period, as they experienced a strong expansion of investment and production.
Between mid-1995 and 1998, however, the cheap-dollar regime was followed by an expensive-dollar regime, as the value of the dollar increased by more than 30% compared to other reserve currencies.
Given the limited capacity of investment demand to drive growth, high-value government services and increased household consumption are also needed.
Leverage has undoubtedly increased at unsustainable rates in recent years.
In the rest of the world, including emerging markets, the share of external factors in output change increased from about 43% to more than 60%.
For example, the TARGET2 balance of the Bank of Greece has actually improved slightly in recent months, and that of the Bank of France has remained close to zero (with a small recovery just as the probability of a victory by the anti-European presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has increased).
And the spread has increased sharply in recent months.
Globalization has increased life expectancy and improved living standards in many poor countries.
There also may be serious direct consequences for human health if climate change is not checked, particularly increased morbidity and mortality as a result of heat waves, floods, and droughts.
Moreover, there are enormous co-benefits to mitigation: lower emissions of GHGs would be accompanied by lower air pollution and increased energy security, agricultural output, and employment.
Even “core” consumer inflation, which strips out more volatile food and energy prices, has increased by 2.4% over the past year.
Although income inequality has increased in France since 1990, it remains well below that of other developed countries.
In fact, since Sweden adopted the same tax system in 1991, its average annual rate of productivity growth has increased by a factor of four.
Within a week of its attack on Georgia, Russia recorded a capital outflow of $16 billion, which has since increased to $30 billion.
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