Mr Schroeder urged the Commission to engage member governments in dialogue before taking sensitive decisions that affected people's living standards.
Then let's get on with tackling the problem with people's living standards.
Labour said people's living standards would continue to be squeezed and the deficit would continue to rise until Mr Osborne changed direction and increased investment on job creation, infrastructure and industry.
Globalization, free markets and free trade deserve most of the credit for advances in U.S. living standards.
The result hits U.S. living standards.
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To obfuscate how the institution's wrongheaded policies decimated Asian living standards, he noted that South Korea's growth was 10% in 1999 and Thailand's 4%.
Since then, U.S. standards of living have improved but only by stealing time.
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When you talk of the middle class in the context of a developing economy, you're not talking U.S.-level living standards.
But when China exports 5% inflation to the U.S. and the economy there is growing at only 3% a year, the result will be a decline in real U.S. output, living standards and international clout.
His successor Mohammed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected leader, has faced increasing frustration over the slow pace of his efforts to reform the state and fulfill the revolution's promises of better living standards and justice.
With the reallocation of some 5 to 6% of the world's aid budgets, and using a self-help model, we could see a massive improvement in the living standards of the world's poor in the next 10 to 20 years.
While playing up the Islamist threat, Mr Karimov has ignored the fact that much of the country's unrest is due to poor living standards.
G7, the goal of a loan now should be to mitigate Argentina's pain, which has seen living standards fall precipitously and millions drop into poverty.
The guidelines mark Ireland's first attempt to quantify acceptable living standards when people declare bankruptcy or reach an insolvency arrangement with creditors under its new insolvency regime.
It's a reflection of the fact that living standards in the East are still much lower.
Expanded cash transfers are lifting the living standards of Brazil's 30m poorest citizens.
The Administration should declare the U.S. firmly in favor of higher living standards abroad and use clearer tools to measure and evaluate progress.
The vast majority come from Russia's ex-Soviet neighbours, where living standards fell further and faster when the Soviet economy disintegrated than in Russia itself.
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Given perestroika's failure, thus far, to boost Soviet economic performance and living standards, there are many indications that Moscow intends to expand the USSR's role in the international economy as a means of resolving at least some of its key economic and hard currency earning problems.
What's going to give people higher standards of living is going to be education.
They have also fuelled Mr Putin's increasingly assertive diplomacy, while boosting the living standards of many Russians.
It may not be enough to dramatically improve living standards in the U.S. over the next decade or two decades.
But the mechanism by which a wider canal will raise the living standards of the country's people particularly its least fortunate remains murky.
The latter sought to lift the living standards of the region's poor, but also became entwined with Marxist ideologies that were inspiring armed rebellions across the region, in several cases against right-wing dictatorships.
The Office of Budget Responsibility's gloomy forecasts of lacklustre economic growth, living standards squeezed more than at any time since the 1930s and rising government debt could - it admits - turn out to be optimistic.
While he has frequently criticized the large gap between rich and poor in Latin America, he never followed many of his fellow Jesuits in pursuing Liberation Theology in the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that sought to lift the living standards for the region's poor.
The Tories' response to Labour's charge of raised taxes was to claim that living standards had risen.
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Rather than debate esoteric matters such as how to properly adjust for inflation, however, let's examine some other measures of middle-class living standards.
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But when I spoke to the former West Midlands minister, the Labour MP for Dudley North Ian Austin, he told me what most people would notice in the Autumn Statement was the further erosion of their living standards because of the Government's economic failures: the squeeze on their benefits and continuing year-on-year cuts to local services.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the "huge squeeze on wages and living standards" had led to a "massive hit on confidence and on demand in the economy".
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