Standards of living rose nearly ten fold during this period.

Many African countries have used the past decade to put in place sound and sustainable economic policies that have delivered robust growth and low inflation. Together with debt relief, these policies have resulted in low levels of public debt, relatively sound financial systems, and most important rising living standards.

Living standards in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Redistributing some of the profits from high energy prices enabled the regime to improve living standards and make itself popular with ordinary Russians.

Indeed, while China s living standards have risen dramatically over the past 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply.

There was a great improvement in the living standards of the population.

The standard of living was low.

In this way, trade can raise living standards.

Meanwhile, for Brazil s new middle class, higher incomes have meant higher tax payments and thus a growing sense of entitlement to improvements in living standards.

Or believe the promises of the populist President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. Or think about a return to the one party past in Mexico.

Indeed, living standards have been under severe pressure since Mubarak s downfall.

The weaker dollar reduces the US standard of living.

Source System of gender focused indicators (SIEG) 2001 national household survey on standards of living.

European citizens have already shown a sense of responsibility and capacity for sacrifice, but they should know why hope in the form of higher employment and living standards is not futile.

National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, national household survey on standards of living, 2001.

National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, national household survey on standards of living, op. cit., p. 134.

The consequences have been high internal and external deficits.

He hopes the project will help improve living standards in developing countries.

This serves as a condition to improve the living standards of a large part of farmers, including women.

General report, 2001 national household survey on standards of living. National Institute of Statistics and Censuses Programme for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI).

We cannot ignore high unemployment.

Imports of inexpensive Chinese products freed up capital and labor in the US for a dramatic expansion of the housing stock which led to a sharp rise in the American standard of living.

Unless there is a change in course, living standards will eventually be compromised.

Historical experience shows that migration is the fastest way to bring about a convergence in living standards.

Within Cuba, he hopes to legitimize his government by improving standards of living.

For the first time in years, they question their leaders real intentions and their capacity to deliver better living standards.

At the same time, technological unemployment has been on the rise.

As education levels rise, so do expectations about work.

California once was a source of widely shared rising standards of living and tremendous upward economic mobility.

Source Based on data from the system of gender focused indicators (SIEG) 2001 national household survey on standards of living.

Living standards and social indicators in Anguilla compare favourably with those of other countries in the region.

The West has established the economic model of the twenty first century, with its hitherto unheard of standard of living, and almost all nations and regions are trying to equal it, no matter what the cost.

PRINCETON In a provocative recent paper, Robert Gordon of Northwestern University concludes that the rate of technological progress has slowed sharply, and that the rise in standards of living (at least in the world s rich countries) is thus set to decelerate.

Unemployment is unacceptably high, and is still rising.

This helps to explain the high level of unemployment in the Arab world.

We can no longer get away with subsidizing economic growth and standards of living at the expense of the global environment.

After five years of decline in living standards, voters oppose more austerity and further retrenchment without growth.

Any strategy for raising living standards must include urgent measures that address AIDS, TB and malaria.

Hong Kong is notorious for its crowded living conditions and the high cost of residential housing.

Development The city hosts the We Are the Future centre, a child care centre that provides children with a higher standard of living.

That process is now coming to an end as employment rises.

Rising sea levels would explain a lot of geological and economic events.

Besides, 370 billion yuan will be used to improve rural living standards in an environmentally sound manner and sustainable way.

That way, France could hold onto its European project at a lower medium term cost to domestic living standards.

Such investments have contributed to Canada's diversity, as well as to one of the highest standards of living in the world.