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But higher incomes did not translate into improvements in people’s standard of living or the quality of public services, leaving Putin’s approval rating flat, with some of his opponents even taking to the streets to protest his leadership.
To a monetary economist, for example, the party’s proposal to restore some kind of metallic monetary standard is so outlandish as to be an almost irresistible target.
But other key reasons for the slow pace of economic development in the Islamic world reflect the standard dilemmas of poor governance.
Indeed, while European citizens are being asked to sacrifice their standard of living – and even their livelihoods – for the sake of the “national economy,” transnational corporations are thriving.
The standard prescription would be to let the ECB target the average inflation rate and to rely on national fiscal policies to fine-tune the macroeconomic stance.
More than half of French naval forces were deployed during the Libyan crisis, during which their normal activity rate increased by 10-40% – at a cost of €40 million ($50 million), not to mention disruptions of standard training and maintenance.
Nevertheless, China helped the US to achieve a higher standard of living by making money available to government authorities that would otherwise have had to come from American taxpayers.
Imports of inexpensive Chinese products freed up capital and labor in the US for a dramatic expansion of the housing stock – which led to a sharp rise in the American standard of living.
Then advocacy groups and researchers could compile scorecards that would show which countries are meeting the standard – and shame those that are not.
A second explanation is that we are overlooking actual output – and thus productivity growth – because the new information-intensive goods and services are hard to measure, and their costs may be falling faster than standard methods allow us to gauge.
People with diabetes are three times more likely to fall prey to TB.Diabetes can also make patients less responsive to standard TB therapies and elevate the chance of relapse after the disease has been treated.
And, to make matters worse, certain key TB drugs can have adverse interactions with standard oral diabetes medications, rendering them less effective.
And these, in turn, contribute to the standard of living that countless Americans have come to enjoy.
Achieving the fourth, along with social and economic measures aimed at creating better jobs and improving people’s standard of living, would at least make it possible to weaken, contain, and control Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations, thereby strengthening civil order and governability.
Its key feature is to shift official policy from maximizing GDP growth toward raising consumption and average workers’ standard of living.
And the funds that urban workers send to relatives who remain in the agricultural sector have helped to raise their standard of living as well.
All this may sound bizarre if you are a normal person, but it is standard operating procedure for sex offenders.
The main cost comes from getting almost 60 million more people screened, but it is indeed a cheap disease to treat: Spending just about $100 per patient on standard drugs and community clinic follow-up can avert TB transmission.
A higher level of consumer spending would raise the average Chinese family’s standard of living, a primary component of what China’s leaders now call the “Chinese Dream.”
Some 39 jurisdictions – from France and Germany to South Africa and Mexico – have already signed up to become early adopters of the new standard on automatic exchange.
A standard argument used by US Democrats against Republican business CEOs who were running for Congress last year was that they had exported US jobs.
When radical right-wing fantasies are once again off-limits, PiS moderates may finally be able to refocus the party on the issues that most Poles want it to pursue: Improving the country’s standard of living by ensuring its economic catch-up with the West.
But China has drawn from the same standard playbook that developed countries used when they climbed the economic ladder.
The trade negotiators are not even discussing eliminating this double standard.
If internal devaluation were a good substitute, the gold standard would not have been a problem in the Great Depression, and Argentina could have managed to keep the peso’s peg to the dollar when its debt crisis erupted a decade ago.
We need to change the standard business model so that incentives and priorities align with responsible corporate citizenship.
The United States did something similar in 1933, when it depreciated the dollar by 69% and abandoned the gold standard.
But, looking ahead, the five-year plan will cause the saving rate to decline, as China seeks to increase consumer spending and therefore the standard of living of the average Chinese.
Indeed, the number of such people may be even smaller than that of medical professionals who have dropped out of the field in frustration over being unable to deliver care at the standard they were trained to provide.
But the broader problem remains that people who are uncertain about their gender identification, move between genders, or have both female and male sexual organs do not fit into the standard male/female dichotomy.
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