While the rate of growth in the use of energy declines as an economy matures, no country has yet reduced energy use while raising gross domestic product.

虽然能源消耗的低增长是经济体系成熟的表现，还没有国家能做到在提高国内生产总值的同时减少能源的使用。

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He has hinted at raising the tax rate on capital gains, arguing that it is "not right" for income from wealth and work to be treated differently.

他已暗示将在资本利润上提高税率，认为不该区别对待资产收入和工作收入。

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And that is when the bank is likely to start restoring more normal monetary Settings, by raising the base rate from its all-time low of 0.5%.

那可能是中央银行通过提高已是空前最低的0.5%的基准利率的时候，以恢复到正常的货币参数。

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She says raising the global breast-feeding rate to 90 percent would prevent the deaths of an estimated 13 percent of all children under the age of five in the developing world.

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Markets are relieved that the latest round of interest-rate raising wasn't worse.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

In other words - and this is how most economists would view it - raising the inflation rate is a cheeky way of achieving the same outcome as an interest rate cut.

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But his response, from raising the top income-tax rate to increasing college-tuition subsidies, was just a laundry list of small initiatives.

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