• Meanwhile, the country's economy, helped by the spectacular growth of tourism, began to improve. (britannica.com)
  • The country's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) has increased at an average annual rate of 10 percent. (who.int)
  • KATHMANDU, September 10, 2020 - Nepal's economy added nearly four million jobs over the past decade, and average job quality increased significantly, according to the World Bank's recent Nepal Jobs Diagnostic report. (worldbank.org)
  • Another important note: On the federal government growth, most of the increase goes away if you include the U.S. Postal Service, which has shrunk significantly. (politifact.com)
  • If he had stuck with BLS for both numbers, he would gotten a significantly smaller increase in federal jobs -- 6 percent instead of the 10 percent he cited. (politifact.com)
  • By implementing these strategies, you can significantly improve the efficiency and longevity of your solar panels. (managenergy.tv)
  • Prior to 2008, housing production was cyclical, with volumes that went significantly above a long-term trend line in good times, and equally below in bad, but averaging enough through the cycle to accommodate growth in the number of households (and also the loss of units due, e.g., to dilapidation). (harvard.edu)
  • The world energy consumption is projected to increase significantly over the next decades. (kth.se)
  • The investigators said that the prevalence of MASLD/MASH would likely remain relatively stable among people aged 18 to 29 years but would increase significantly for all other age groups. (medscape.com)
  • 3. The motorized road transport system has expanded significantly in all the regions of the world in the past two decades. (who.int)
  • Kampala is reported to be among the fastest-growing cities in Africa, with an annual population growth rate of 4.03 percent, by City Mayors. (wikipedia.org)
  • These factors include the volatility of fossil fuel prices, nuclear power's role in greenhouse gas reduction, energy supply security, population growth and demand for electricity in the developing world. (iaea.org)
  • Over the last 50 years, the proportion of farmers to the total population has been in steady decline, but the fall has not been big enough for the absolute number to go down, given population increases. (indiatimes.com)
  • But in the last decade, the fall in farming has combined with the slowing rate of population growth to create a fall in the absolute numbers of farmers. (indiatimes.com)
  • Increasing human population density, rain forest deforestation, and human predation of local fauna are risk factors for human T. cruzi infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Canada has more doctors than ever, with growth in the physician supply outpacing population increases for the 10th year in a row, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). (cmaj.ca)
  • South Asia-the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka-will account for 40 percent of the growth in the world's working-age (15-64) population until 2050. (imf.org)
  • Employment growth in south Asia has broadly paralleled growth in the working-age population. (imf.org)
  • Indeed, the ranking of five large countries in the region in descending order of employment growth-Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka-coincides with their ranking by growth of the working-age population. (imf.org)
  • And if rates of female participation in the labor markets of the region's three largest countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan)-currently among the lowest in the developing world-increase as they have in some east Asian countries, that figure rises to nearly 15 million jobs, the equivalent of adding the population of Jakarta every year. (imf.org)
  • Uganda s population has being growing at an average rate of 2.5 percent per annum, increasing from 12.6 million people in 1985 to 22.2 million in 2000 and projected at 23.4 million by the end of 2002. (fao.org)
  • Population growth and increasing resource demands in Ethiopia are stressing and degrading agricultural landscapes. (mdpi.com)
  • They created a mathematical model incorporating data on the growth of the US population and the natural history of MASLD/NAFLD. (medscape.com)
  • They took into account projections of the growth of the US population and the progression of MASLD and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH, formerly NASH) through stages of fibrosis to decompensation, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), transplant, and liver-related death as a proportion of all-cause mortality. (medscape.com)
  • Region, road traffic-related deaths rose from 188 000 in 2001 to 247 000 in 2013, representing a 32% increase in road traffic deaths, compared to a 38% increase in population during the same period. (who.int)
  • The condition currently affects about 11 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide, and the prevalence is expected to increase over the coming decades as the proportion of older people in the population increases. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The United Republic of Tanzania achieved lower-middle income country status in July 2020, which reflects two decades of sustained macroeconomic stability. (state.gov)
  • promote sustainable economic growth by ensuring macroeconomic stability. (fao.org)
  • UBS expects China's household consumption growth to surge 10-11% in nominal terms and 7.8% in real terms in 2023. (rt.com)
  • The agency's projection of real GDP growth is similar to what it was last summer for 2022, higher for 2023 and 2024, and similar over the remainder of the projection period. (cbo.gov)
  • In the absence of effective treatments, health systems should plan for large increases in the number of liver cancer cases and the need for liver transplant," Le said in a media briefing held on November 7 prior to her presentation of the data at The Liver Meeting 2023: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). (medscape.com)
  • The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows the 2016 national age-adjusted suicide rate reached the highest level seen in decades. (governing.com)
  • The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on 1 April 2016 calls for accelerated global action to achieve this goal. (fao.org)
  • China's latest Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a measure of business activity for manufacturing and services, also soared, indicating growth. (rt.com)
  • UBS expects China's consumption to improve moderately, predicting that spending will be rather "cautious" due to strains in consumer confidence. (rt.com)
  • The department expects China's imports to increase from 97 to 126 by the end of the 2028/29 import year. (agri-pulse.com)
  • China's cigarette affordability was still at a low level compared with other countries in the 1990s, but increased quickly and to a high level within just two decades. (who.int)
  • The latest projections point to slower growth in nuclear power, in keeping with the trend since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident. (iaea.org)
  • Even before the pandemic, many economists were forecasting slower growth and lower long-term investment returns compared to past business cycles, which could trigger a need for states to raise their pension fund contributions to make up the shortfall. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Clinicians should be aware that fewer U.S. children will be identified as underweight using the WHO charts, slower growth among breastfed infants during ages 3--18 months is normal, and gaining weight more rapidly than is indicated on the WHO charts might signal early signs of overweight. (cdc.gov)
  • We may expect to see 20,000 years of progress in the decades encompassing the 21st century. (forbes.com)
  • Our regressions demonstrate the importance of a strong negative conductive feedback process in our current climate, which increases winter growth for thinner initial ice , but indicate that later in the 21st century this negative feedback is overwhelmed by variations in the fall atmosphere/ocean state. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • The solar energy industry has experienced substantial growth since the beginning of the 21st century. (cdc.gov)
  • The model projected a relative 23% increase in MASLD among US adults from 2020 to 2050. (medscape.com)
  • In addition, the model predicted an increase in the proportion of cirrhosis among patients with MASLD from 1.9% to 3.1%, as well as a rise in liver-related deaths from 0.4% of all deaths in 2020 to 1% by 2050. (medscape.com)
  • The investigators also foresaw a rise in HCC cases, from 10,400 annually to 19,300 by 2050 and a more than twofold increase in liver transplants , from 1700 in 2020 to 4200 in 2050. (medscape.com)
  • 5. This document describes the level of implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 in the WHO African Region, identifies the key issues and challenges in achieving the targets and proposes priority actions that Member States should consider in order to meet these targets. (who.int)
  • However, growth in the number of doctors is slowing, as are increases in payments to physicians for clinical services, with widening disparities between specialties. (cmaj.ca)
  • Growth in total clinical payments to physicians has also dropped off in the last few years. (cmaj.ca)
  • The average gross clinical payment per physician increased less than 1% over to $339 000. (cmaj.ca)
  • Average gross clinical payments to family doctors actually decreased by nearly 1% to $275 000 in 2015/16, while payments to other specialists increased by as much as 1.8%, with surgical specialists receiving an average $461 000. (cmaj.ca)
  • Average clinical payments to family doctors shrunk last year, while payments to other specialists increased. (cmaj.ca)
  • Our model forecasts a substantial clinical burden of NAFLD over the next three decades. (medscape.com)
  • Le and colleagues wanted to get a clearer picture of the expected increase in the clinical burden of MASLD in the coming decades. (medscape.com)
  • The study only provides estimates of what the future burden of disease might be if there are no changes in clinical care for patients with MASLD or if the trajectory of contributing factors, such as obesity , diabetes, and other metabolic diseases, continued to increase, she cautioned. (medscape.com)
  • In 2006, CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics convened an expert panel to review scientific evidence and discuss the potential use of the new WHO growth charts in clinical settings in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Cell therapy for Parkinson's disease has experienced substantial growth in the past decades with several ongoing clinical trials. (lu.se)
  • Even as there has been a 3.6 percentage point decline in the proportion of people working in agriculture over the last decade, their absolute number has increased from 234 million a decade ago. (indiatimes.com)
  • Similarly, After reaching a low point in the mid-1980's, the teenage birth rate among teenage mothers 18-19 years, the proportion unmarried more climbed steeply, with an overall increase of 24 percent between 1986 than tripled from 22 percent in 1970 to 72 percent in 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • We face big challenges to help the world's poorest people and ensure that everyone sees benefits from economic growth. (worldbank.org)
  • The growth prediction for the world's second-largest economy was raised from December's expectations of 4.1% due to "evidence that consumption and activity are recovering faster than initially anticipated" as Beijing lifted its stringent Covid-19 restrictions. (rt.com)
  • Despite the need to replace scores of retiring reactors, nuclear power is still set to maintain-and possibly increase-its role in the world's low-carbon energy mix, according to David Shropshire, Head of the IAEA's Planning and Economic Studies Section. (iaea.org)
  • The economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic - while not addressed in this report - highlights the importance of increasing stable and secure employment in the post-pandemic recovery period. (worldbank.org)
  • The high case assumes current rates of economic and electricity demand growth, particularly in Asia, will continue while also including a bigger role for nuclear power in climate change mitigation strategies worldwide. (iaea.org)
  • USDA's improved economic outlook extends through the next decade. (agri-pulse.com)
  • But even after several years of economic growth, mounting death tolls haven't subsided. (governing.com)
  • Still, not all parts of the country have experienced the same economic growth, and it's many of these struggling regions that are experiencing larger losses to suicide. (governing.com)
  • The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports that housing costs have been growing "three times faster than household median income over the last two decades" and have been the "main driver" of rising middle-class expenditures. (reason.com)
  • The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it would likely nudge up interest rates earlier than previously expected in response to sizzling economic growth and a spike in prices that has sparked inflation fears. (latimes.com)
  • But policymakers acknowledged the accelerated economic growth - likely to be the fastest in decades - and the recent jump in inflation. (latimes.com)
  • Jordan's economic growth has slowed over the last decade. (giz.de)
  • The overall aim is to improve the countries' economic situation and raise the living standards of its people. (giz.de)
  • After 2022, economic growth slows, and inflationary pressures ease. (cbo.gov)
  • Several measures suggest economic outcomes have improved for Indigenous Peoples in recent decades. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • By contrast, there are several reasons that, cumulatively, seem to be causing this unusual dynamic of sharp house price increases during an economic downturn. (harvard.edu)
  • Lack of strong and effective reform measures, the country has failed to step out of the crisis and struggled with low-level economic growth for years. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • For China, it is still in its economic height after its reform and opening up drive unleashed its growth potentials in the past three decades. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The Government of Uganda has been implementing economic reform since 1987 geared at restoring economic growth and development. (fao.org)
  • In the past two decades, China has achieved unprecedented economic growth rates. (who.int)
  • Rapid economic growth increases people's purchasing power and makes cigarettes more affordable, as income gains overrun cigarette price increases. (who.int)
  • The deficit continues to decrease as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) next year as spending related to the coronavirus pandemic wanes, but then deficits increase, reaching 6.1 percent of GDP in 2032. (cbo.gov)
  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting information about people working from home for the past few decades. (realtor.com)
  • However, in the past few decades, concerns about excessive weight gain have increased, and growth charts have been used to screen for overweight, including obesity. (cdc.gov)
  • The incarceration rate in the United States has more than tripled in the last two decades. (csmonitor.com)
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, its growth and inadequate consideration for road safety measures are contributing to road traffic deaths and injuries. (who.int)
  • These fast-growth dividend stocks could help income investors beat inflation. (fool.com)
  • These huge increases appeal to more investors as 8.3% year-over-year inflation has hurt many on a fixed income. (fool.com)
  • After decades of almost no inflation, the current surge has unsettled financial markets and spread alarm among some business and political leaders. (latimes.com)
  • Since mid-2021, inflation has reached its fastest pace in four decades. (cbo.gov)
  • CBO now expects both short- and long-term interest rates over the coming decade to be higher, on average, than in its previous forecast, partly reflecting higher inflation. (cbo.gov)
  • Therefore, strong house price increases are not simply reflecting inflation - they are extraordinarily high on a real (inflation-adjusted) basis too. (harvard.edu)
  • While in decades past pushing rates this low would likely have generated inflation, in recent times the US and other developed economies seem to have no bias towards inflation at all (if anything, it may be towards deflation), giving their central banks plenty of maneuvering room to keep interest rates extremely low for so long. (harvard.edu)
  • According to the 2015 projections, capacity growth in that region is projected at 25.9 GW(e) by 2030 in the low case from the current 6.9 GW(e), rising to 43.8 GW(e) in the high case. (iaea.org)
  • In tables released Thursday, USDA projects 2019 net farm income at $77.6 billion, a $14 billion increase from the projections made last year. (agri-pulse.com)
  • The upward swing comes as USDA projects an increase in 2019 cash receipts - $375.8 billion in this year's report, rising $11 billion from last year - and a drop in cash expenses - $322.3 billion, a $3 billion drop from last year's projections. (agri-pulse.com)
  • In CBO's projections, the price index for personal consumption expenditures increases by 4.0 percent in 2022. (cbo.gov)
  • We explore current variability and future projections of winter Arctic sea ice thickness and growth using data from climate models and satellite observations. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • According to projections by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the gap between the cost of pension benefits that states have promised their workers and what they have set aside to pay for them dropped in 2021 to its lowest level in more than a decade. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The tech industry is generally not regarded as a place to find dividends, let alone rapid dividend growth. (fool.com)
  • However, as many tech companies mature, they elect to offer payouts and, in a few cases, increase them at a rapid rate. (fool.com)
  • The dividend yields a solid 3.3% at the current share price, but the payout's rapid growth is what's most impressive. (fool.com)
  • Our study finds that the subnational fiscal position of Mexican municipalities remains sustainable despite the rapid growth of public debt following the 2008 global financial crisis. (mdpi.com)
  • Much of the growth in GDP per worker in south Asia that underlies these favorable developments is due more to rapid growth in total factor productivity-a combination of changes in the efficiency with which inputs are used and changes in technology-than to growth in physical capital per worker and education. (imf.org)
  • This duplication was not evident in patients who began abnormal growth at age 9 or 10, but only in those who started to grow excessively before the age of 3. (medscape.com)
  • When using the WHO growth charts to screen for possible abnormal or unhealthy growth, use of the 2.3rd and 97.7th percentiles (or ±2 standard deviations) are recommended, rather than the 5th and 95th percentiles. (cdc.gov)
  • The wet form is characterized by the growth of abnormal, fragile blood vessels underneath the macula. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Technological advancements, such as increased solar panel efficiency and improved storage of wind energy, are making renewable energy sources more efficient and cost-effective. (managenergy.tv)
  • You can increase the efficiency of solar panels by regularly cleaning and maintaining them. (managenergy.tv)
  • Improving solar technology is essential for maximizing energy production and reducing costs. (managenergy.tv)
  • Unfortunately, the positive feedback loop of summer ice melt and increased solar absorption associated with summer ice melting still appears to be dominant and continue to drive overall sea ice declines. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, industry growth is greater than 60% over the last decade. (cdc.gov)
  • Residential solar has seen a steady increase in installations, providing jobs for over 260,000 Americans. (cdc.gov)
  • The share of workers who occasionally work from home was stable from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s but has increased in recent years to comprise nearly a quarter of all workers in 2017-18. (realtor.com)
  • For historical perspective, the number and share of remote workers was fairly level from 1997 through 2004, but has increased notably in the most recent data. (realtor.com)
  • While growth in Pakistan has trended downward in recent decades, it has been volatile, with a sharp upswing between the 1990s and the 2000s. (imf.org)
  • Recent efforts have helped address some data gaps, and new institutions are helping Indigenous communities to overcome historic barriers to growth. (bankofcanada.ca)
  • A recent increase to about 1.4 million completions per year is encouraging, but would need to be even higher - more like 1.6 million units a year - to meet current growth in household formation, never mind the backlog from years of underproduction. (harvard.edu)
  • This increase in the amount of sea ice growing in winter doesn't overcome the large increase in melting we've observed in recent decades," said Alek Petty, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • But when the blaze swept into Mariposa Grove, the biggest and best known of the park's three old-growth sequoia clusters, it ran smack into the area of the most recent prescribed fire, slowing its advance and ferocity. (kpbs.org)
  • This paper examines this issue against the backdrop of China, in which the total fertility rate has rapidly declined to the lowest-low level in recent decades. (bvsalud.org)
  • CSP technology is one of the latest to join the range of renewable energy sources, and estimates for its growth are very strong. (evwind.es)
  • In her first months in office, President Hassan promised reforms to improve the business climate, and identified attracting foreign investment as a key priority. (state.gov)
  • Hassan's government is also engaging in dialogue with stakeholders including private sector organizations and development partners to identify measures to improve the business climate and win back investor confidence. (state.gov)
  • On her inauguration in March 2021, President Samia Suluhu Hassan identified removing obstacles to inward foreign investment as a key priority, along with other measures to improve the overall business climate and rebuild trust between the private sector and government. (state.gov)
  • The serious impact of climate change and the effects of increasing food prices are resulting in hunger and becoming even more serious as a global problem, with grave consequences on health. (who.int)
  • The pandemic also compounded preexisting financial sector issues, and private sector credit growth slowed while nonperforming loans continue to be high. (state.gov)
  • Such progress would be significant in any year, but the improvement in fiscal 2021 occurred during a recession in which many analysts predicted that revenue losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic would increase retirement fund shortfalls. (pewtrusts.org)
  • There are now nearly 9 mn fewer farmers than there were in 2001, the first time in four decades that the absolute number of cultivators has fallen. (indiatimes.com)
  • The more we adapt to change, the rate of change itself increases exponentially. (forbes.com)
  • By comparison, the rate within metro areas also increased -- but only by 8 percent. (governing.com)
  • The national rate has now increased for 11 consecutive years. (governing.com)
  • However, this represents an increase of 2.3% over 2015, the lowest growth rate in five years. (cmaj.ca)
  • Job quality in slow-growing Nepal has improved due to massive outmigration of labor from the country, which pushed real wages higher for those remaining, while a flood of workers' remittances-estimated at a quarter of GDP-accounted for half of the decline in the poverty rate. (imf.org)
  • In trying to understand this unexpected development, we know some things that are not causing the extraordinarily high house price increase rate. (harvard.edu)
  • The unemployment rate, after peaking at 14.7 percent in April, came down to the still-weak level of 6.7 percent in November, with significant room to improve. (harvard.edu)
  • According to NASA, the increased rate of thickening of sea ice in the Arctic is due to Global Warming. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • This increase in growth rate might last for decades , a new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters found. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • For its part, in its new policies scenario' ('World Energy Outlook 2010'), which covers the objectives stated by different countries in the development of renewables, the International Energy Agency estimates that CSP will grow between 2008 and 2035 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.3% - the highest of all renewable technologies - until the figure of 91,000 MW in operation is reached. (evwind.es)
  • rate of 62.1 doubled, with most of the increase coming in the 1980's. (cdc.gov)
  • While several measures are appropriate for examining patterns of age groups are married nowadays, and birth rates have increased teenage childbearing, the most useful measure is the birth rate, defined sharply for unmarried women in all age groups. (cdc.gov)
  • prices are increasing more rapidly across many sectors of the economy than CBO anticipated. (cbo.gov)
  • Diabetes and cancer are also rapidly and persistently increasing across the globe. (who.int)
  • Although the supply of physicians and the total payments for their services continue to grow, over the last few years we've observed a reduction in the strength of that growth compared with earlier periods," said Geoff Ballinger, manager of physician information at CIHI. (cmaj.ca)
  • By 2019, the range between the most and least affordable U.S. major markets increased by five years of median household income. (reason.com)
  • Revenues are projected to reach their highest level as a share of GDP in more than two decades in 2022 and then to decline over the following few years but remain above their long-term average through 2032. (cbo.gov)
  • For more than 50 years, a passionate group of mathematics educators from across Canada have been uniting to work together with the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) to provide feedback to students keen to improve their mathematical abilities via contest marking. (uwaterloo.ca)
  • Instead, Pew found an increase in assets of over half a trillion dollars in state retirement plans, fueled by market investment returns of more than 25 percent in fiscal 2021 (the highest annual returns for public funds in over 30 years) and substantial increases in contributions from taxpayers and public employees to pension funds. (pewtrusts.org)
  • These contribution increases, which came after years of states shortchanging their systems, are part of an upward trend over the past 10 years. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The CDC growth charts should continue to be used for the assessment of growth in persons aged 2--19 years. (cdc.gov)
  • WHO growth curves include BMI for age starting at birth, and CDC growth curves include BMI for age beginning at age 2 years. (cdc.gov)
  • autopsy studies show prostate cancer in 15 to 60% of men aged 60 to 90 years old, with incidence increasing with age. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This, along with an overall rise in births - 4.5 percent from July 1989 to July 1990 - all point to growth opportunities for reputable providers of child care. (encyclopedia.com)
  • These additions would be 20 to 50 percent higher than the annual increase between 1990 and 2010. (imf.org)
  • imbalance between consumed and spent calories, Worldwide searches verified that excessive generally the result of inappropriate eating patterns, weight (overweight and obesity) has increased with ingestion of highly energetic food rich in fat globally with alarming rates. (bvsalud.org)
  • The decline in death rates associated with PH among males from 1980 to 2005 has reversed and now shows a significant increasing trend. (cdc.gov)
  • During downturns, the expectation is that house prices will decline , not increase, and certainly not increase at such extraordinarily high rates. (harvard.edu)
  • Arctic sea ice is still very much in decline across all seasons and is projected to continue its decline over the coming decades. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • While the income numbers offer an improved perspective, the trade outlook offers a slightly diminishing role for the U.S. on the global export stage. (agri-pulse.com)
  • continued increases in defense spending and strong foreign markets also characterize the outlook for the coming decade. (bls.gov)
  • Growth charts have been used for at least a century to assess whether a child is receiving adequate nutrition and to screen for potentially inadequate growth that might be indicative of adverse health conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • Broadcom's grown its revenue by an annual average of nearly 30% over the past decade, partially aided by the immense growth of smartphones worldwide. (fool.com)
  • After filing, prisoner growth rates fell below the national average in nine of the 10 states. (csmonitor.com)
  • Levitt concludes that for each one-prisoner reduction induced by prison overcrowding litigation, the total number of crimes committed in the state increases on average by 15 per year. (csmonitor.com)
  • Pew research shows that contributions have increased an average of 8% each year over the past decade, boosting assets and paying down debt. (pewtrusts.org)
  • In the four states with the most financially troubled pension systems-Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey-contributions increased by an average of 16% a year over the same period. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Thus, cheap cigarettes aimed at low income Chinese consumers exhibit higher levels of affordability, and have increased their affordability faster, than other cigarettes aimed at average income consumers. (who.int)
  • The project "Employment in Jordan 2030" (EJ2030) works alongside the Ministry of Labour and other national partners to create and improve sustainable employment opportunities in Jordan, while also addressing specific challenges for women's employment. (giz.de)
  • Even though many of these are informal jobs or temporary wage jobs, they are nevertheless more productive and provide improved livelihoods compared to traditional low-productivity farm work. (worldbank.org)
  • Looking ahead, while growth in total factor productivity will continue to play a major role, higher rates of physical and human capital accumulation will be necessary to absorb new entrants into the labor force. (imf.org)
  • This is expected to contribute towards the improvement of incomes by raising farm productivity, increasing the share of agricultural production that is marketed and creating more on-farm and off-farm employment opportunities. (fao.org)
  • President Obama has increased the federal workforce 192,000 individuals -- about 10 percent since he's taken office -- while we've lost 2 million jobs. (politifact.com)
  • Where did Johnson get his 192,000 jobs and 10 percent increase? (politifact.com)
  • Either starting point gets you to Johnson's 10 percent increase, about 190,000 jobs added. (politifact.com)
  • In the early 1990s the largest child-care companies controlled only about 4 percent of the entire $15 billion market, leaving ample room for growth. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In these states, prior to filing of the litigation, the growth in the number of prisoners per year was 4.2 percent above the national mean. (csmonitor.com)
  • The study estimates the affordability elasticity of cigarette consumption in China at -0.6, suggesting that a 10 percent increase in cigarette affordability will result in 6.01 percent increase in cigarette consumption. (who.int)
  • As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the expanse of frozen seawater that blankets the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas has shrunk and thinned over the past three decades. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • 4. In September 2015, the goals of the Decade were augmented by ambitious global targets within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG 3 Target 6). (who.int)
  • They include the United Arab Emirates, which is building its first reactors and contributing to projected growth in the Middle East and South Asia, where India is driving the expansion and constructing six new reactors. (iaea.org)
  • As of today, the energy consumption in the world is high and is essential in the development and growth of the modern-day society. (kth.se)
  • The key to materially improving affordability is neutralizing the consequences of urban containment. (reason.com)
  • International housing expert Shlomo Angel stresses that " supply must be adequate to allow competition to determine land prices ," and that "the explicit containment of urban expansion-by greenbelts, as in Seoul, Korea or in English cities, by urban growth boundaries, as in Portland, Oregon, or by environmental restrictions as in California-has inevitably been associated with declines in housing affordability. (reason.com)
  • In contrast, removal of density restrictions in municipal zoning is unlikely to materially improve housing affordability. (reason.com)
  • Cigarette affordability in China has also increased in comparison with other countries. (who.int)
  • These findings confirm that for tax increases to reduce the number of smokers and deaths in China, policy makers need to review the potential effects of rising income and prices with a focus on reducing cigarette affordability. (who.int)
  • Gigantism refers to abnormally high linear growth (see the image below) due to excessive action of insulinlike growth factor I (IGF-I) while the epiphyseal growth plates are open during childhood. (medscape.com)
  • NASDAQ: HEXO) (' HEXO ' or the ' Company '), a leading producer of high-quality cannabis products, is pleased to announce it has successfully completed the expansion of its straight edge pre-roll production capacity at the Company's Fenwick, Ontario site and will be launching a unique proprietary inhalation technology, intended to greatly improve the cannabis experience. (yahoo.com)
  • In addition to credit constraints, many SMEs cite tax regulations, high taxes, scarce skills, and bureaucratic inefficiencies as obstacles to growth and therefore job creation. (worldbank.org)
  • That's why at ManpowerGroup we're reskilling people from declining industries like textiles for jobs in high growth industries including cyber security, advanced manufacturing and autonomous driving. (prnewswire.com)
  • China now is also facing a number of daunting challenges, such as high home prices and pile-up of local government debt and whether it can properly handle those problems will to a large extent determine its growth track in the coming decades. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Old-growth sequoias' thick bark and towering canopies high above the forest floor all help protect them from wildfire. (kpbs.org)
  • Laing told the Basalt council the housing is needed to take care of the existing workforce, not because of Skico's growth. (vaildaily.com)
  • Researchers are continuously striving to improve the conversion of sunlight into electricity. (managenergy.tv)
  • Accordingly, the company envisions further increasing the number of employees in the San Francisco office to support the accelerated business momentum and deliver the highest level of services. (prweb.com)
  • Endogenous and exogenous testosterone and the risk of prostate cancer and increased prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level: A meta-analysis. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Policy recommendations include increasing tax incentives for renewable energy investments, implementing feed-in tariffs, and offering subsidies for research and development in renewable energy technologies. (managenergy.tv)
  • Land values have indeed risen across urban growth boundaries, from eight to 20 times according to research in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. (reason.com)
  • More employers than ever (87%) plan to increase or maintain their headcount as a result of automation, finds new ManpowerGroup research. (prnewswire.com)
  • The key to easing the crisis is increasing the housing inventory. (vaildaily.com)
  • The IMF conclusion well reflects the ups and downs of the two Asian growth engines in the past two decades. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Wisconsin's junior senator, Republican Ron Johnson, wants to roll back the Obama-era growth by 2015 by not filling positions as people leave or retire. (politifact.com)
  • SOUTH Asia has added nearly 10 million people a year to its labor force for the past decade, while increasing wages and reducing poverty. (imf.org)
  • In the last decade, large numbers of men have entered jobs in construction, manufacturing, commerce and transportation, or have migrated abroad. (worldbank.org)
  • Nuclear power's global expansion is projected to continue in the coming decades-albeit at a slowing pace-amid challenges including low fossil fuel prices, a sluggish world economy and the legacy of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi accident, according to an IAEA study released today. (iaea.org)
  • What critical activities need to be included in the Work Programme for the implementation of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition to reach the 2025 global nutrition targets? (fao.org)
  • Improvements in job quality are primarily due to growth in GDP, with variations across countries. (imf.org)
  • However, because the two genes are so close together, it is difficult to tell which gene is associated with age-related macular degeneration risk, or whether increased risk results from variations in both genes. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Raising awareness of MASLD/MASH and working to improve collaboration among liver specialists and general practitioners could help to flatten the curve, she suggested. (medscape.com)