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At the same time, China must reduce the incentive for graft, by raising the pay of public servants at all levels.
Indeed, the single-minded focus on raising domestic consumption is likely to distract China’s leaders from other policies needed for a good economy.
Raising farm productivity and income requires improved irrigation, wasteland reclamation, warehousing, marketing, transport development, and the free movement of produce within the country.
In their 2013 coalition agreement, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats set a goal of raising public and private investment by 3% of GDP, or €90 billion ($100.8 billion) annually, to reach the OECD average.
To strike an effective balance, the action plan proposes two publicly owned investment funds – one raising money from institutional investors, and the other from individuals.
Furthermore, the Fed has now exited quantitative easing and is showing a willingness to start raising policy rates sooner than markets expected.
For example, he has strengthened the National Guard’s position by raising its status to that of a ministry, led by his eldest son, Mit’ib.
Abdullah also appointed his son Mish’al as Governor of Najran, before raising Mish’al’s profile further, in December 2013, by naming him Governor of Mecca, in place of Khalid Al Faisal.
Another reason for rising corruption is the soaring expense of elections, with politicians raising money from business as part of a quid pro quo.
Countries that regard raising their ranking as a policy goal have no incentive to improve licensing procedures in any of these other areas.
This emerging strategic shift will likely have far-reaching consequences, raising the stakes of Sino-Japanese sparring over islands in the East China Sea.
Research published this month concluded that consuming all remaining hydrocarbons would result in the melting of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, potentially raising sea levels by 58 meters.
This includes increasing official development aid to the least-developed countries, thereby supporting poverty-reduction efforts and accelerating progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and raising their contribution to global funds to address climate change and protect global commons.
If Latin America’s companies are to compete effectively with those based in developed or emerging economies, the region must urgently remedy this, by raising the skill level of its workforce.
But raising interest rates has its downside: higher capital inflows, which will offset the disinflationary effect of higher borrowing costs.
Serious problems are not confined to the developing world: “deaths of despair,” for example, are raising mortality among white males in the United States.
The result is environmental degradation, unsustainable public debt, and generations of under-educated, unemployable people who will have difficulty raising their own children to become productive adults.
One key criticism leveled against the RBI is not unique to India: the central bank, the government claims, is impeding growth by raising interest rates in the name of a misguided fear of excessive inflation and financial instability.
Raising prices is almost never a real problem.
The Group’s report this week concluded that raising $100 billion a year for developing countries is a feasible goal if the political will is there.
With corporations sitting on cash, governments trying to rein in deficits by cutting expenditure and raising taxes, and households spending less on residential construction, demand is weak and uncertainty is high.
Admittedly, such progress is difficult; in Nigeria, we saw an opportunity in raising non-oil tax revenues, but struggled to seize it.
Even though the Fed has not yet started raising interest rates, the well-established US economic recovery and the prospect of monetary tightening have, over the last year, caused the dollar to appreciate sharply against most currencies, those of emerging markets and advanced countries alike.
Tensions continued to mount through early 2014, raising concerns about an “accidental war” between China and Japan, which would demand the involvement of Japan’s main ally, the US (as President Barack Obama confirmed on a visit to Tokyo last April).
In part this is accomplished by explicitly reducing entitlements and raising retirement age from absurdly low levels.
Whenever they go bathing, they follow the same path, first raising concerns over what will happen if Argentina pays back its foreign debt, and then inevitably paying back the debt under strong pressure from the International Monetary Fund and the US.
That theory sounds as general and fundamental as the theory that global warming is melting glaciers and raising sea levels around the world.
In the US, the Fed was sharply raising rates.
Several European countries are considering raising their remarkably low retirement ages, or have already done so.
There are many arguments for raising Japan’s consumption-tax rate.
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