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With modest up-front financing, impoverished and traditional rural communities that had not considered educating girls suddenly see the immense value to the community of educating both boys and girls.
Doubling US foreign aid would, however, still leave it below $50 billion a year – a modest sum compared to the $685 billion that the US spent on defense in 2008.
The discretionary policy response has been largest in the US, at a cumulative 4.8% of GDP, and China, at 4.4%, over 2008-2010, while it has been modest in Germany and Canada, and smaller in the UK, France, and India.
The automatic increase in the deficit has also been largest in the US, modest in the UK and Germany, and smaller in Japan, India, Canada, China, France, and Italy.
The crisis funding of the modest delayed infrastructure component of most stimulus programs suggests that much of it would not pass a rigorous cost-benefit test.
Industries that depend heavily on external finance grew faster in countries with large capital inflows than in countries with more modest inflows.
But the growth fillip from public-sector infrastructure spending can only be modest.
Led by a group of technocrats surrounding the young King Mohammed VI, a reform process – including political liberalization – has begun in earnest, even if the results still seem modest.
But if the work does continue, it is on a more modest scale that has settled into the background of public charitable work.
When it first announced the so-called “extended asset-purchase program” in January, the ECB emphasized that it was only expanding an existing program, under which it had been buying modest quantities of private-sector bonds, to cover government paper.
This has prompted a modest uptick in expected inflation – the ECB’s favorite measure of price stability – not for the immediate future, but in five years, and then for five years.
If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe’s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.
No civil servant, military officer, or professor is able to buy even a modest apartment, unless they have an additional – often illegal – source of income.
Meeting emissions targets in the transport sector would require, alongside reductions in car use, modest increases in walking and cycling.
Most people, it seems, will tolerate a modest amount of political repression, including secret police, torture, and corruption, if it delivers security and a modicum of prosperity and fairness.
His modest demeanor stood in stark contrast to Qaddafi, who always sat on a luxurious throne-like sofa when greeting guests.
A modest yield of 3% on a portfolio worth $55 billion would amount to an income exceeding its current total revenues, and many times more than Boston’s current capital plan.
Even with a modest yield, Boston could more than double its infrastructure investments.
These programs yielded modest growth at best; what they did succeed in boosting was poverty, inequality, and social protest.
For instance, in the mid-1980’s, Chinese leaders seriously discussed and later drew up a blueprint for modest democratic reforms.
Countries’ policy responses have ranged from modest to immense.
With post-communist restructuring, this modest status evaporated.
The BoE has made some recent efforts to address consumers, but its direct reach is inevitably modest.
STANFORD – The United States’ economy is growing at a modest pace, with low unemployment and inflation.
These numbers will be dwarfed if even the most modest climate-related predictions are borne out.
Ordinary citizens want to own a modest business, have access to a free press, organize political parties, re-make society, and liberate prisoners.
Finally, modest amounts of money, directed at practical problem solving, can make an historic difference.
The Group’s report showed that a modest price on emissions, in the range of $20-25 per ton of carbon dioxide, would push incentives in the right direction, raise substantial public revenue, and foster private investment crucial to the new industrial revolution needed to make the low-carbon economy a reality.
Indeed, the international community could have blunted last year’s crisis by providing even modest support for the three frontline countries – Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan – which together host some four million Syrian refugees.
Khrushchev hoped that the modest buildings would simply tide people over until the 1980s, when, he predicted, true proletarian luxury would arrive.
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