For its part, China has not increased spending, at least not by much, and has refrained from stimulus.
Furthermore, violent crime in other industrialized nations has not increased as more and more young people play video games.
The government has not increased income taxes or abolished tax relief on mortgages.
But the incidence of brain cancer in children has not increased significantly from the late 1980s to 2005, Hoover said.
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The gas tax has not increased since 1993, and its buying power, accounting for inflation, is now only 11 cents.
Although the number of these pins has increased, it has not increased nearly as fast as the number of transistors.
This is the first year since our inaugural 2004 list that China has not increased its number of Global 2000 companies.
And despite the obvious potential for opportunity, shoplifting has not increased with the installation of self-check out registers, says loss prevention experts.
The puzzle, though, is why the supply of houses has not increased to meet demand, especially given the price houses now command.
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"The cold reality is that for the vast majority of households, (a rising stock market) has not increased their wealth much, " Vitner said.
Though economic growth may not have reached Argentine heights, Uruguay is the only Latin American country where inequality has not increased over the past decade.
Aggregate supply has not increased, whilst aggregate demand has.
It suggests the Games inspired more than half of children to take up a new sport, but 80% of parents say the amount of PE and games in UK schools has not increased.
So far, it has not increased its offer.
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The top corporate tax rate and top individual rates were at their respective highest between 1950 and 1960, the period of greatest economic and industrial prosperity in the US. Lowering tax rates has not increased manufacturing employment.
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University of Colorado Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. reports on another 2011 study, published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal showing that flooding has not increased in the United States over the last 85 to 127 years.
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According to one congressman, staffing at the National Geology and Mining Service, the industry regulator, has not increased much since it was founded in 1980, despite a fivefold increase in the output of copper in that period.
The other was not: the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has become a bit more optimistic about underlying state of the economy, and that has meant that the chancellor's target measure of the deficit has not increased as much as expected.
Consider the graph below, which shows that, in spite of the dramatic increase in the number of minutes per day of cell phone use in the U.S. since the late 1990s, the incidence of brain cancer has not increased and may have decreased slightly.
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Janet Finch Saunders AM noted the decline in GCSE take up of STEM subjects and the fact that take up at A level has not increased in line with overall A level entries as she called on the government to introduce a programme encouraging highly talented people into STEM subject teaching.
Global warming may have increased the intensity of hurricanes, but that is not certain, and it has anyway not increased their number.
Lazard Freres analyst James Winchester says UPS has not only increased orders thanks to the Internet, but has also cut costs.
The council also welcomed that fact that Air Passenger Duty has not been increased due to the adverse impact it would have on Northern Ireland passengers.
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It is true that the composition of working hours has changed, yes, but not that the number has increased.
Obamacare has not only limited choices and increased health care costs for American families, it has made it harder for American businesses to hire.
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Importantly, the losers did not experience an increase in truancy compared to otherwise similar students who did not participate in the lottery, meaning that the lottery has increased motivation among winners, not decreased it among losers.
Disk drives are just one of those (few, but not non-existent) business sectors where globalisation has increased the concentration of production, not reduced the concentration.
We hear that productivity (what dollars represent) has not kept up with the increased paper money supply.
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Middle-skill jobs have declined as a share of occupations across Europe as well, and inequality has increased, though not as much as in America.
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