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She raised my mother’s seven children and five grandchildren and reached a great age without asking anything for herself.
When the poverty line is raised to per capita daily spending of $2, the global poverty rate rises from 18% to roughly 40%, suggesting that many people are living just above the established poverty line, vulnerable to external shocks or changes in personal circumstances, such as price increases or income losses.
While interviewing me, Sedgwick raised an interesting point: Given that the volatility of many other asset prices has declined sharply in recent years, it might just be a matter of time before oil and other commodity prices do the same.
After a man-of-the-match performance, throughout which he had been racially taunted, he turned to the opposing team’s cheer squad, raised his top with one hand and pointed dramatically to his chest with the other.
The case of Greece has raised the simple but profound question: can a member state of the EU be allowed to fail?
It raised the death toll of Iran’s recent earthquake, owing to substandard housing construction ten years ago.
But as Trump’s China-bashing strategy started to crystalize around the advisers he appointed and the issues he raised, China’s official media finally warned that “big sticks” would be used in defense, if need be.
Some experts argue that it has already raised oil prices by about $15 per barrel.
Concerns have been raised about the influx of cheap labor.
For example, it recently raised eyebrows within NATO yet again by purchasing new-generation Russian S-400 antiaircraft batteries.
This, together with an inadequate regulatory and business environment, has raised concerns among companies; since 1999, the largest German multinationals have doubled their employee headcounts abroad, while cutting jobs at home.
To catch up, R&D spending should be raised from less than 3% to at least 3.5% of GDP.
A Russian reporter, Andrei Sitov, raised this question when he asserted at a White House press conference that American freedom was complicit in the Arizona shootings: “As to why – it does not seem all that incomprehensible, at least from the outside.
Indeed, the widely heard slogan “Anna is India, India is Anna” reminds some of the dark days of Indira Gandhi’s emergency rule in 1975-1977, when her followers raised the slogan of “Indira is India”.
It also raised hope that a new borderless world of democracy and globalization was dawning.
Over the last decade, the country’s authorities have raised awareness, established and strengthened disaster-management institutions, and worked on recovering from past disasters, including Typhoon Haiyan.
That is why the question has not even been raised, let alone seriously considered.
In many emerging countries, rapid economic growth has raised living standards to at least some degree for almost everyone, but the share of the rich and ultra-rich is increasing dramatically.
One by one, the Central Banks raised interest rates and tightened credit policies to try to slow the loss of gold reserves.
With the reserve ratio of banks already at 19.5% and unlikely to be raised by a large margin, interest rates will most likely continue to be raised.
Now a more radical possibility has been raised.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the possibility of a “Brexit,” a British exit from the European Union.
From 1990 to 2004, for example, Ghana reformed its tax system and raised revenues from 11% to 22% of GDP.
Its logical destination was the country with the deepest financial markets, the US, where it raised asset prices to unsustainable heights.
To be sure, the US also intervened after the crisis, implementing a fiscal stimulus package in 2009 that, along with other transfers, raised median disposable income growth by the equivalent of five percentage points.
The question raised in October 2003 by then US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is no less relevant today: “Are we capturing, killing, or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training, and deploying against us?”
Current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke raised this idea a few years ago, alleging a world “saving glut.”
Moreover, if the ECB raised interest rates in order to defend the euro, even assuming such intervention might actually work, the ECB would be accused of stifling growth.
The Bush administration gave $250 billion per year in tax cuts to the richest Americans, raised military spending by $150 billion per year, and then turned to the poorest people of the world and told them that there is no money available to meet America's promise.
This recognition raised expectations for the G-20 and granted it the prestige that it deserved: it is the only forum in which world powers and emerging countries sit as equals at the same table.
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