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Just as the Marshall Plan rebuilt a war-ravaged Europe and the Millennium Development Goals lifted some 471 million people out of extreme poverty, the international development agenda can still deliver results thanks to the combined potential of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and the Paris climate agreement.
The unprecedented economic expansion that has lifted millions out of poverty has been accompanied by widening income disparities, as well as serious environmental damage.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted out of poverty.
But it took another decade of hard-nosed, detailed negotiations, entailing efforts to strengthen the EU’s external borders, to reach the point, in 1995, where internal border controls could actually be lifted.
In India and Kenya, streaming has lifted test scores.
Inequality among countries has decreased, with more than one billion people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last two decades alone.
In just 28 years, over 1.25 billion people have been lifted out of poverty – a miracle that receives far too little attention.
Those who defend Stalin’s reputation credit him with lifting millions out of poverty; but millions could have been lifted out of poverty without murdering and incarcerating millions more.
Millions of families have been lifted out of poverty.
Even while many developing and emerging economies lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty, the perception that growth meant greater inequality was always bubbling below the surface.
But I am betting that India is rising again: millions more will be lifted out of poverty in the coming years, while the increasingly prosperous Indian middle class will expand further.
If the Bush administration was seeking stable, secure, diverse and cheap oil supplies, it could have simply lifted the embargos on Libya, Iran, Iraq, and Sudan and let the oil gush.
The Kremlin has put on a brave face regarding when sanctions might be lifted; indeed, it is busily imposing sanctions of its own.
Entrepreneurship can take root in culturally congenial regions of any country after economic barriers against it are lifted, and then feed on itself to grow to national significance.
Libya had such EU restrictions lifted last October ostensibly for joining the fight against terrorism and abandoning its weapons of mass destruction.
The last legal restrictions on taking interest on money were lifted only in the nineteenth century, when they succumbed to the economic argument that lending money was a service, for which the lender was entitled to charge whatever the market would bear.
The Guideline lifted some of the more foolish limits on arms exports by ending the “all-out prohibition policy” maintained since the Miki Administration of 1976.
A weaker currency would stimulate exports and allow imports to grow as foreign-exchange controls are lifted.
Hosting the games, a global symbol of positive expectations, lifted the UK’s spirits 12 years ago, in July 2005, when London was awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Market liberalization and trade expansion lifted millions out of poverty in the 1990's, particularly in China and India.
The European Union is applying pressure on all sides, including Russia, where it is holding out the possibility that economic sanctions will be lifted as an eventual reward for the Kremlin’s support in the peace effort.
Too much of the book reads, as the Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein put it, like it was lifted from the Web site of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
India has lifted controls on the price of diesel.
Unless, and until, such arrangements are established, the risk of conflict will grow, jeopardizing the region’s economic transformation – which in recent decades has lifted a billion Asians out of poverty.
Rapid economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of its citizens out of poverty – the greatest anti-poverty achievement in human history.
Over the past 30 years, China has lifted 680 million people out of poverty, mostly through the use of coal.
The US Federal Reserve is furthest ahead, having already lifted rates twice, while in the Eurozone and Japan, normalization is more anticipated than experienced.
After two years of negative growth, the Iranian economy rebounded strongly in 2016, as international sanctions were lifted.
Rather than boosting credit to the real economy, unconventional monetary policies have mostly lifted the wealth of the very rich – the main beneficiaries of asset reflation.
A few days earlier, visa requirements for the country’s citizens were lifted, together with those for citizens of Montenegro and Macedonia.
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