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Such interlocking relationships between global warming and development explain why the French government requires that at least 50% of the funding provided by the AFD be directed toward development projects that also have a positive impact on the environment.
There is little empirical doubt about the positive impact of FDI inflows.
Empirical research also confirms the positive impact of EU structural funds on growth.
Rather, they contend that QE’s positive externalities – namely, a stronger recovery in developed economies – will ultimately offset them.
But everyone committed to a positive outcome for Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East should wish Blair good luck.
The upswing in commodity prices that began in 2004 brought many benefits for Brazil: external surpluses, the accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves, positive wealth effects, and higher investment in natural-resource-related sectors.
Add to that exchange-rate appreciation and rising minimum-wage floors – not to mention public-sector disbursements indexed to the latter – and Brazil enjoyed a virtuous domestic cycle featuring positive feedback loops between demand for services and formal employment.
But recent breakthroughs in AI-related technologies do offer enormous potential for positive advances in a range of applications from transportation to education and drug discovery.
The best ones are positive, like rapid economic growth and rising prosperity, which underpinned the European dream in the past.
Arguably, it is a choice for economic modernization, for an end to the politics of conflict, and for positive political change further down the road.
Or in positive terms: Deal honestly and fairly!
And, because the social environment has powerful effects through the brain on the rest of the body, public and private-sector policies can have a positive impact on health, providing a top-down benefit to brain and body function.
Plunging oil prices, the dramatic decline in the value of the ruble, ongoing sanctions, and the increasingly bloody images coming out of Syria have left him desperate for positive news.
Yes, Europe and China converge on a positive overall view of globalization and multilateralism.
And it is far from certain that the net result will be positive for society, much less for business.
When the first “arrow” of Abenomics – a fiscal stimulus program – was launched nearly two years ago, asset markets' immediate response was positive.
As a matter of positive constitutional law, all members of the EU, under the tutelage of the European Convention on Human Rights, are committed to the principle of the "Agnostic or Impartial State," which guarantees both freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
Because broader access to financial services helps to create a path out of poverty, any increase in this metric is a positive sign for human development.
The positive economic knock-on effects are obvious.
It shows that most households’ real market incomes remained flat or fell, even though aggregate growth remained positive in the 2005-2014 period.
Advances in the defense industry lead to significant positive externalities, such as civil-military synergies and investment in research and development, which is fundamental to growth, innovation, and future competitiveness.
The United Kingdom and the Netherlands, in particular, have notched up a number of positive civic-engagement projects involving Muslims.
The city’s political leaders promise that this strategy for attaining carbon neutrality “provides an overall positive economic picture and will lead to economic benefits for Copenhageners” based on the expectation that prices for conventional energy sources like coal, oil, and gas will rise in the coming years.
On the whole, though, it is reasonable to expect that giving poor people access to knowledge and the possibility of connecting with people anywhere in the world will be socially transforming in a very positive way.
Likewise, for a relatively large and closed economic system such as Europe, a weak euro provides moderate positive effects on growth and some moderate negative effects in terms of threatening inflation.
For example, when the US urges German fiscal stimulus – as at it did in Bonn in 1978, in London in 2009, and at the G-20’s Brisbane summit in 2014 – it has in mind the “locomotive game,” in which fiscal stimulus has positive “spillover effects” on its trading partners.
For example, does reducing public expenditure have positive or negative effects on economic activity?
Unlike in the past, many economists now say that the effects are positive.
Russia's Center Is Failing to HoldMOSCOW: For most of its nine years of postcommunist transition Russia's political blocs were too deeply divided to work together except negatively – this at a time when the country demanded resolute and positive decisions.
Reaction to these changes from the international community has been largely positive.
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