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Sub-Saharan Africa and the world’s other poorest regions have recorded significantly more than 2% annual population growth in recent years, whereas the demographic trend in the advanced economies of Europe and Asia has been flat or decliningSimulations indicate that the optimal average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime is around 2.3.
Likewise, at the lower end of the income scale, it is not clear that better skills can significantly offset rising inequality.
Similarly, incomes around the world would rise significantly from liberalizing more global trade in both goods and services.
He is proposing tax cuts for the rich that will significantly increase deficits and the national debt.
Part of the challenge in assessing major or (potentially) iconic investment projects is that standard cost-benefit analysis does not work for projects that are likely to change significantly the economy’s growth rate, as the Erie Canal did, by stimulating trade.
Tony Blair may be significantly more friendly to the European Union than his Conservative predecessor; but his government is certainly not any kind of fan of political integration in Europe.
As a result, China’s top 1% income earners are accumulating wealth significantly faster than their counterparts in the rest of the world – and far faster than the average Chinese.
Legal requirements that significantly increase the costs of hiring and firing labor discourage employment creation in new industries.
Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks.
The US spends a much smaller share of GDP on family-assistance programs – including cash transfers, tax breaks, and direct government services – than its developed-country counterparts, where reliance on regressive consumption taxes to fund progressive transfer programs has kept income inequality significantly lower.
While Saudi Arabia remains the largest Arab economy, the world’s leading producer and exporter of oil, and the guardian of Sunni Islam, its political influence has diminished significantly in recent years.
The fear premium might push prices significantly higher, even if no military conflict ultimately takes place, and could trigger a global recession if one does.
Similarly, the governments of Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, among others, are working to build industrial sectors that are diversified, globally competitive, environmentally sustainable, and capable of improving their people’s living standards significantly.
Significantly, what is emerging is being negotiated at the level of individuals and communities, not states and national leaders.
Taken together, the growth of Japan’s GNI and the implications of tax data and 2008 SNA suggest that Japan’s economy has been doing significantly better lately than the national statistics seem to suggest.
What China achieved in the South China Sea has significantly more far-reaching and longer-term strategic implications than, say, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, as it sends the message that defiant unilateralism does not necessarily carry international costs.
Studies of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have significantly advanced our understanding of the mechanisms underlying Mendelian genetics.
But at least 300 million hens who would have lived miserable lives in standard battery cages are now in significantly better conditions, and there is great pressure on the EU bureaucracy to enforce the ban everywhere – not least from egg producers who are already complying with it.
This burden is excessive, and significantly hinders economic growth.
Most European countries suffer from this problem, but France’s youth unemployment rate, at 26%, is significantly higher than the EU average of 19.6%.
After three months or more of treatment, the numbers rose even more significantly in favor of those treated by acupuncture.
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell’s famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
Only if growth is significantly faster over the long run will living standards for the vast majority of the region’s voters begin to rise.
And, in Asia, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new Japanese government has already depressed the value of the yen and buoyed export prospects by placing reflation through monetary easing at the center of its agenda, while the most recent statistics out of China suggest significantly faster export growth than was anticipated.
Lending institutions that not only provide money, but also exchange ideas, can significantly improve the outcome of their work.
Although labor productivity significantly increased under NAFTA, total factor productivity – a better measure of long-term competitiveness – has been constant, and sometimes negative, for 25 years.
The audience members’ average age was significantly higher than mine (and I am 66).
The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet’s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015.
Such a measure would reduce labor costs significantly and bring workers out of the informal sector.
Homelessness also varies significantly by state.
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