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But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP, up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a year in contributions, and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector.
It fell to the next generation to invent new work processes, and then productivity soared, often doubling or even tripling in those factories.
We're seeing nearly a tripling of that confidence in our work.
Then you can go even further, almost tripling efficiency with some operational improvements, double the big haulers' margins.
In order to lift half of the still-vulnerable population into the middle class, Brazil will need 4.2% annual GDP growth, on average, through 2030 – a target that can be met by tripling productivity growth.
The growth of China and the developing world will lead to a doubling of global output in 10-15 years, and probably a tripling in the 15 years after that.
Consider this simple fact: Tripling mobile Internet access over the next 15 years could make the developing world $22 trillion richer.
After pointing to soaring credit growth in most South American countries (in Brazil, growth in mortgage lending exceeded 40% during 2010, more than tripling the stock of credit outstanding in 2007), the Fund concluded that “the current expansion does not yet rise to the level of a credit boom,” though “it would if the expansion were sustained for a prolonged period.”
Manufacturing employment in the US fell in 2003 to its lowest level since 1964, but thanks to a tripling in output per worker, total manufacturing output was roughly three times larger.
The London G20 summit gave a strengthened mandate to the IMF, while tripling its resources.
The radical violence of ISIS has many roots, but the tripling of the population of North Africa and the Middle East over the last 50 years certainly is one of them.
At the same time, the participation of small countries, many of them poorer nations, is not being overlooked: the IMF agreement calls for a tripling of so-called “basic votes,” which ensures that these countries’ voices will be better heard.
The Institute of Medicine recommends tripling the recommended daily intake of vitamin D for children and adults in the US and Canada, to 600 IU (15 micrograms) per day.
Policy interest rates are near zero (and sometimes below it) in most advanced economies, and the monetary base (money created by central banks in the form of cash and liquid commercial-bank reserves) has soared – doubling, tripling, and, in the United States, quadrupling relative to the pre-crisis period.
Its high annual growth rates of 8-9% led to a tripling of its GNP in the last two decades of the twentieth century.
If Myanmar generates the growth and employment that MGI believes is possible, this would help to increase the number of those with sufficient income for discretionary spending from 2.5 million today to 19 million in 2030, thereby tripling consumer spending to around $100 billion.
Environmentalists’ plan to obtain 20-50% of all energy from biomass could mean a tripling of current biomass consumption, placing its production in direct competition with that of food for a growing global population, while depleting water supplies, cutting down forests, and reducing biodiversity.
The EU acted quickly in the aftermath of the drowning of more than 1,000 migrants in a particularly horrific episode in April, tripling the budget of its much-maligned naval surveillance operations and expanding their operational area to match Italy’s discontinued Mare Nostrum operation.
How could a tripling of global GDP and a fourfold expansion of the world’s high-income population be good news, given all that goes with it?
Indeed, notwithstanding an unprecedented post-crisis tripling of Fed assets to roughly $3 trillion – probably on their way to $4 trillion over the next year – US consumers have pulled back as never before.
As for other parts of the world, a recent Pew poll found that many Europeans would like Europe to play a larger role, but to balance American military power would require a doubling or tripling of defense spending, and few Europeans are interested in such an increase.
They occurred despite a tripling of the population, which put extraordinary Malthusian pressure on the economy underlying natural resource base, and despite the mobilization of an unprecedented proportion of national income for nearly a century of intensive war against France, a power with three times Britain’s population.
But, like all good agreements, the deal is a “win-win”: it helps India cope with crippling energy shortages by tripling its nuclear power generating capacity, and it provides major business opportunities for American companies to sell reactors and nuclear technology.
As a result, despite a tripling of the global population, we have so far evaded Malthus’ 1798 prediction that human population growth would inevitably outstrip our ability to produce food.
These countries could try to replicate Turkey’s economic success in 2000-2010, when a political alliance between the ruling party and a broad group of dynamic small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) contributed to a tripling of exports.
Tripling global material wellbeing may sound like a lot, but if anything it’s a low estimate.
A tripling of the excise tax would roughly double the price of cigarettes (as has happened in New York City), preventing about three million deaths per year by 2030.
Heat shortages at the height of this year’s bitter winter left more than 60 people dead, and Iran is perhaps the only major oil producer whose population claims that economic conditions have worsened despite a tripling of oil prices.
The market did not respond to the need for evacuation by sending in huge convoys of buses to get people out; in some places, it did respond by tripling hotel prices in neighboring areas, which, while reflecting the marked change in supply and demand, is reviled as price gouging.
European Commission figures suggest that Europe’s so-called “app-economy” workforce will rise to 4.8 million by 2018, from 1.8 million in 2013, with revenues more than tripling, to €63 billion ($86 billion).