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But it accounts for only 12% of the EU’s overall energy consumption, meaning that, over the next ten years, the EU would have to supplement only about 6% of the energy it consumes.
The appeal is part of a strategic shift, in which the UN aims to supplement humanitarian assistance with long-term programs that will boost the region’s economies.
Indeed, another analysis, including 14 randomized trials with 1,213 patients six months after a stroke, compared the effects of conventional stroke rehabilitation with and without acupuncture as a supplement.
That would not just reduce over-pumping, but also help to supplement rural incomes.
Because local governments receive 50% of total national fiscal revenue, but account for 85% of total fiscal expenditure, they try to supplement their budgets through land sales.
So-called flying HumVee’s (high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles) would create a superb transportation system for areas lacking intercity roads, and eventually would supplement – or perhaps supplant – automobiles.
Together with related provisions that would provide meals to infants and expectant mothers, and subsidized pulses to supplement cheaply available food grains, the law will add $6 billion to India’s annual fiscal deficit.
This would supplement current spending of $2 billion, only about 30% of which is for interventions specifically aimed at newborns, while the majority is for interventions that also benefit mothers and older children.
While serving as governor and party boss of Henan Province in the 1990’s, Li Keqiang failed to do much for the estimated one million peasants who contracted AIDS by selling blood to supplement their meager earnings.
Western countries will also need to create new redistributive mechanisms to supplement the declining role of wages in their economies.
The rest was allocated to the US Department of Defense as a supplement to its annual budget, which has been between $500 and $650 billion in recent years.
Abe plans to supplement the easy-money strategy with an increase in government spending of some $120 billion, or 2% of GDP.
If I think I need more vitamins, I prefer to take a multivitamin supplement.
In theory, we could simply supplement children’s diets with vitamin A in capsules, or add it to some staple foodstuff, the way that we add iodine to table salt to prevent hypothyroidism and goiter.
Russian energy managers count on the region’s oil and gas supplies to supplement stagnating domestic production.
Such investment-based annuities would be a natural supplement to the lower pay-as-you-go benefits that would result from raising the eligibility age for full benefits.
Here, too, the world will need to create informal platforms that supplement traditional multilateralism.
Securing additional assistance from China and Russia – to supplement the support already provided by the SCO’s Central Asian members as well as SCO observers Pakistan and India – is imperative.
So Europe needs a short-term growth strategy to supplement its financial-support package and its plans for fiscal consolidation.
Long before the Bretton Wood institutions conceded that capital controls could be useful, McKinnon was asserting that, under certain circumstances, such controls might be necessary to supplement prudential banking regulation.
Previously, EU directives tended to impose minimum standards, which individual countries could supplement if they wished.
For example, although the so-called Tobin tax (a small levy on financial transactions) was originally intended to fund development assistance, a version of it was recently adopted in Europe in order to supplement national budget revenues.
Instead, they tend to frame the bottom-up approach not as a break with the top-down paradigm, but as a pragmatic supplement that accommodates major emitters and creates a framework for the climate initiatives of sub-national actors, such as large cities and companies.
Another 10-15% – including students, retirees, household caregivers, and those with traditional jobs – take on such work to supplement their income.
How many children will miss out on education because teachers are absent due to low wages, or simply because poor children must work to supplement their family income?
Even after substantial allocations in 2009 – intended to supplement IMF members’ foreign-exchange reserves and strengthen their capacity to weather the crisis – its share peaked at a mere 3.7%.
In Georgia, for example, political parties that include at least 30% of each gender on their electoral lists receive a 30% supplement from the state budget.
They return home by mid-day to help supplement the household income by selling doughnuts in the streets – at a time when they are supposed to be completing homework.
The proteins used to supplement the oral rehydration solution have the same structure and functional properties as those in natural breast milk, and the process is analogous to that used routinely for the production of proteins from other organisms, such as bacteria and yeast.
The SDR was created in 1969 to supplement member countries’ official reserves.
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