They define improving human rights as improving living standards, lifting people out of poverty.
This will have significant additional benefits with respect to improving living standards, health and the global economy.
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Continuing inequality could hinder further progress in improving living standards, the charity says.
But he insisted the market economy was the most successful system yet devised for improving living standards, and that there was a moral imperative to create wealth.
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Mr. Wang launched a "Happy Guangdong" campaign this year, pledging to focus on improving living standards while slowing GDP growth in the province of 104 million people that pioneered China's economic reforms and has long been seen as a bellwether of the country's future.
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With manufacturing and services going to China and India respectively, both countries overtime have been improving the living standards of its own people and developing their domestic markets but inconspicuously laying the foundations of their own innovation ecosystems that is funded through globalization.
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"The median person has had steadily improving standards of living, " he says.
They saw a golden age in Iran in the 1970s, when oil money was injected into the Iranian economy and the standards of living were improving.
The technology, and our ever-improving ability to put it to productive use, will continue driving real gains in living standards.
But while the country's energy intensity--the amount of energy required to produce a unit of economic growth--is improving, it is not improving enough to offset the pace of growth of the economy, the population and living standards.
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