These results show very clearly that the more we can slow cost growth, the more rapidly living standards will improve.
The proportion of respondents saying they expected their living standards to improve within five years rose from 62% in 2004 to 73% in 2009.
This will only rise as African living standards continue to improve.
We also believe the demand for tourism property will increase as living standards in China constantly improve.
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It may not be enough to dramatically improve living standards in the U.S. over the next decade or two decades.
The question we should ask ourselves is, what can we do to reduce misery and improve living standards in other countries?
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of targets intended to reduce global poverty and improve living standards by 2015.
In the poorest countries, greater investments in public health, clean water, and the like could do a lot to improve living standards.
The economy registered sluggish economic growth in 2010, insufficient to improve living standards for the nearly 65% of the population in poverty.
Nigeria is Africa's leading oil producer, but critics say widespread corruption has meant that its wealth has not been used to improve living standards in a country where most people are poor.
As the late, great economist Julian Simon demonstrated (both with clear economic logic and an unassailable mountain of data), there is a long-run tendency for standards of living to improve and for material scarcity to relax as a constraint rather than tighten.
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The reformers, however, mostly believe Vietnam must continue to change if it is ever to see the living standards of its 77m people improve.
These beneficiaries have been empowered to use these skills to improve their living standards, as well as the viability of their businesses and income generating activities.
Nor will it improve the living standards of ordinary citizens.
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But sources say that a part of his speech to top government officials a section not reported by the state media demanded radical measures to improve the living standards of ordinary people.
This can only come about through measures that will help the development of a non-oil economy and so improve the living standards of Nigerians and sedate the desire to control oil revenues.
Much of this increase in demand will come from the transportation sector and largely in the developing world, where poorer people will use oil and other conventional energy sources to improve their living standards.
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The 2010 General Social Survey reported that Hispanics are more than a third likelier than non-Hispanics to say that the government should do more to improve standards of living for the needy (39% to 26%).
Earlier, the protesters in Sofia burned their utility bills in public, accusing the government of failing to improve their falling living standards and demanding the expulsion of the three foreign-controlled power distributors that control the local market: CEZ and Energo-Pro from the Czech Republic, and Austria's EVN.
It can improve education, raise living standards, strengthen internal security, operate in a transparent manner, and, above all, not steal from the public coffers.
By providing young people with the capabilities for critical thinking, secondary education can help improve overall standards of living, especially in the least developed countries.
If international lenders want to help countries improve their standards of living, they should tie debt forgiveness to the implementation of the five basic principles of economic progress.
But in their haste they failed to distinguish between employees' right to organise, which badly needed strengthening, and their living standards, which they also tried to improve through legislation.
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