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For decades, health-care innovations have been copied from developed countries, perhaps with slight variations, on the assumption that father knows best.
In Denmark, for example, total antibiotic use by pig farmers has decreased, despite a slight increase in antibiotics administered for treating porcine diseases.
However, the possibility that rapid growth might generate higher inflation in fast-growing accession countries suggests that a slight increase in the permitted inflation margin - to, say, 2.5 percentage points - should be allowed.
On the contrary, even in the face of decelerating GDP growth, urban job creation hit 11 million in 2015, above the government’s target of ten million and a slight increase from 10.7 million in 2014.
The renminbi's slight depreciation against the dollar in 2014 is not evidence of it; many other currencies, most notably the yen and the euro, depreciated by far more last year.
The South-East Asian sub-region is likely to record a slight increase in growth, owing to Thailand’s strong recovery following the 2011 floods, and annual inflation in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole is projected to fall from 6.1% to 4.8%.
In nominal dollar terms, Brazil, the EU, Japan, and Russia all experienced slight declines since 2010, but showed signs of improvement in 2017.
A slight Asian woman has checked in with, I would guess, about 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of suitcases and boxes.
Both sides should agree to the pre-1967 boundaries in principle, and then swap small land parcels and definitions of control (especially regarding Jerusalem) in slight and mutually convenient deviations from the 1967 boundaries.
The USSR collapsed not for economic reasons, but because the slight lifting of the Iron Curtain revealed a reality that stood in stark contrast to the idea that people were subordinate to the state.
Finally, with more than 20% of all income going to the top 1%, a slight increase, say 5%, in taxes actually paid would bring in more than $1 trillion over the course of a decade.
Yet there is a risk that his relations with the US, at least initially, could be more businesslike than warm, owing to an American slight that is hard for him to forget.
In France, a slight first-round shift of just a few percentage points away from Macron and toward Mélenchon would have resulted in a fully anti-establishment runoff for the French presidency.
But “domestic” violence is also worsening: although women all over the world are threatened by their partners, the risk is substantially raised when men have easy access to arms and a very slight probability of being taken to court, as is the case in Mexico and Guatemala, where the rate of impunity is over 95%.
The irony of the IMF’s position over the past eight years is that, while the Clinton Administration advanced Third Way principles at home through an active government role in promoting growth, in the international arena America’s Treasury (directly and through the IMF) advanced views that reflected, with only slight variations, traditional market fundamentalism and trickle down economics, ideas which America itself had rejected.
This victory represented a slight crack in the well-guarded fortress of Indian politics, which had long been reserved for a small and largely hereditary circle.
Slight economic overheating as a result of higher private and public investment would help boost wages and import demand, which might help reduce Germany’s current-account surplus.
And the Spanish economy has been growing faster than the eurozone average, all while keeping its external accounts in slight surplus.
Most important, Afghanistan’s neighbors must not play power politics within the country, in the hope of gaining some slight advantage over one another.
Since then, Portugal has increased exports cumulatively by more than one-quarter, so that, despite a slight increase in imports since 2007, it runs a trade surplus.
In the first quarter of last year, Greece actually experienced a slight uptick in growth and a small decline in unemployment.
This year’s output growth has been disappointing, and the International Monetary Fund expects only a slight improvement in 2015.
So although the immediate effects of the region’s financial contagion have been slight, the changing relations among the region’s currencies mean that long term problems are probably unavoidable.
But the gains are slight; even by 2045, the share is unlikely to exceed 15%.
In Ethiopia, agriculture accounts for 80% of employment, so even slight drops in agricultural productivity can negatively affect income levels.
Recent slight declines in the value of the renminbi suggest that China’s exchange rate policy may be changing following its 20% appreciation of the currency since July 2005.
A slight devaluation would solve any remaining problem with export demand.
In fact, the benefits of demographic stability – or even slight decline – outweigh any adverse effects.
In difficult times, people are seeking a transformational vision of the future, not slight improvements.
This would not make an iota of difference, beyond perhaps a slight increase in transaction costs.
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