The result is a financial spiral in which businesses grow less and pay less to their governments.
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As individuals, we grow less and less concerned with seeking facts than seeking what we want to believe or what supports our opinion.
But as the more compliant and people-oriented gender, girls tend to grow up less confident and more insecure than boys, researchers say.
The last thing we can afford to do right now is raise taxes on middle-class families. (Applause.) If we allow these taxes to go up, the result would be that a lot of people most likely would spend less, and that means that the economy would grow less.
The private sector has to work with a lower talent pool and thus will grow slower and be less capable of competing internationally.
The reality is that, as people age, their conflicts grow less acute and their ability to draw pleasure from the more agreeable aspects of life increases.
People are going to have to find ways to grow food with less fertilizer and water, and use less energy to store and transport food, he says.
And people now are less able to grow crops and run cattle than they were, say, a hundred years ago.
No matter how large or small the entity or their party affiliation, there is a common theme to their goals: in these times of austerity and uncertainty, governments have a singular focus on not only doing more with less, but NEW with less so they can compete globally, grow jobs, and give their constituents an opportunity to succeed.
Firms that are young, say five years or less, and exhibit potential for rapid growth and innovation should be classified differently than older firms that are less likely to grow and add jobs.
Such supermajority votes are unlikely to be forthcoming-and will grow less so over time.
The practice encourages crops to grow deeper roots, and less water means a fuller flavor.
As signs of recovery continue to appear, and investors grow less jittery about emerging markets, more Asian governments may follow with non-guaranteed bonds of their own.
Yes, we were supposed to believe that countries grow faster when their governments spend less and tax more.
He argues that, as Thai consumers grow cautious, they will spend less and save more with the banks, which will be driven to invest their deposits in the bond markets.
Today, this efficient method is used in more than 100 countries to grow crops using less water, energy and fewer chemicals, including projects in South Africa, China, India and even for growing tea in Tanzania.
Friedman would have argued to do less and grow the monetary base at a steady rate that is the sum of what you want the long-term inflation rate to be and what you think the long-term growth of the economy will be and then, like the bumper car, take your hands off the wheel and let capitalism and markets do the rest.
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As for the western states' mineral and farm exports, they will surely grow over time as less developed Asian countries such as China, Vietnam and Indonesia increasingly industrialise and switch to more meat and grain in their diets.
Prolonged economic growth tends to make people assume that future generations too will grow richer, and hence to make less provision for them.
Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing, according to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies across the U.S. That helps to explain why the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same industry.
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My own organization, Oxfam, an international relief and development organization, recently endorsed the idea of eating less meat and dairy as part of our GROW campaign to fight global hunger.
Gifted children grow up to be more vulnerable, and less confident, even when they should be the most confident people in the room.
Brazil and Argentina are forecast to grow less than their neighbours.
Despite a near-quadrupling in the oil price since he took office (for which he can take some of the credit), Venezuela's economy contracted by 7.5% last year and is forecast to grow by less than 3% this year.
With some 700 million members of its own, Facebook is thinking less and less about how to grow that number and more about how to get current users to live more of their lives within its virtual walls.
This is because countries tend not to actually pay off their debts: they hope that the economy will grow faster than the debt and so will become less important but they very rarely actually pay off the old debts.
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Brazil will grow less than the U.S., and it is not recovering from a crisis the way the U.S. economy is.
Interest in things such as green products and healthy foods will continue to grow in a post-crisis world, but customers will be less willing to pay a premium for them, and will demand more value for money when they do.
Studies show that state companies use capital less efficiently than private ones, and grow more slowly.
Suburban and country living on the other hand may grow less attractive as the costs of travel rise sharply.
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