Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country s GDP growth.

Stronger financial markets can move savings to where they can do the most to spur economic growth.

Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? Because growth and development would undermine their hold on political power.

In turn, this can spur sustainable non farm employment growth in services, agro processing, and small scale manufacturing.

Policymakers espousing debt write downs to spur growth should ask whether they have the political support to recapitalize banks if needed.

Merkel and Hollande will discuss the main question how to spur economic growth without increasing public debt on May 15 in Berlin.

Beyond China, the other BRICs Brazil, Russia, and India all face challenges that their policymakers need to meet to spur stronger growth.

Greece, Spain, and the others were told all along that these reforms were needed to spur productivity and competitiveness and help revive growth.

And, even if development aid does spur GDP growth, this does not necessarily lead to better lives for the poorest citizens, especially in the short term.

However, poor countries could not tackle poverty alone, but required increased aid, debt relief, capacity building support and an equitable multilateral trading system to spur growth.

In turn, remittances can spur this development.

One seemingly unexpected use of such systems in some areas is to keep young community members from moving into more urban regions in order to spur economic growth.

Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country s GDP growth. But increasing a pie s size does not guarantee that it will be shared fairly.

Clearly, African countries, assisted by their development partners, need to develop the continent's enormous energy potential as an integral part of their efforts to spur economic growth and reduce poverty.

My shame as a spur, I fled the abyss.

Fixing the housing market could also help spur consumption .

The growth in domestic investments would not only enhance national wealth, but would also spur the demand for foreign capital and technology in an escalating, mutually reinforcing manner that makes investments demand driven.

Developing countries, for their part, must fulfil their commitments to mobilize domestic resources, reform institutions to respond to national priorities and adopt effective, nationally owned economic and social policies to spur economic growth.

And the recently conducted feasibility study might spur long awaited progress.

Estimates indicate that the lifting of the restrictions on travel to Cuba would in and of itself spur an annual growth increase in income for the United States economy of between 1,180 million and 1,610 million.

Our own generation urgently needs to spur another era of great social change.

Historically, failure to protect against inflation or deflation has helped spur calamitous outcomes.

This would spur trade wars as countries tried to find more demand abroad.

The foundational values of cooperatives embody not only a humane vision, but also a pragmatic approach to production that has enabled the successful ones to thrive and to spur economic growth in countries that desperately need it.

The Westgate attack should spur Kenya s leaders to re think their approach toward Somalia.

Noting that the availability of microcredit and microfinance to people living in poverty, especially women, can support entrepreneurship and spur the development of microenterprises, providing goods, services and income to the poor, thus raising incomes and fostering equitable growth,

In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.

They might also spur developing countries to do what it takes to join that market.

The good news is that African governments are getting the message on how to spur economic growth, and are also getting crucial help from China and other partners that are less wedded to extreme free market ideology than the World Bank.

Curiously, this finding did not spur much interest, and no similar studies were reported until 2002.

Several regional integration initiatives include efforts to spur the creation of regional banks and settlement schemes.

All of this will invariably spur development and integration of national financial systems and intra regional trade.

Yes, Japan will rebuild, which will undoubtedly spur some type of recovery in its disaster battered economy.

As these retail products start to take shape, they will spur increased activity in the derivative markets.

Higher interest rates can spur consumption if their impact on income outweighs the increased incentive to save.

India is concerned that these protests could spur violence which could spill over into its own territory.

To spur investment, new measures have been undertaken to allow foreign banks to enter the Iranian financial system.

By contrast, a genuinely repressive iron hand would be far likelier to spur a more potent democratic resistance.

Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.

This current session and the forthcoming summit in September are events that should spur on the process of development.

These divisions have created deep doubts about the dream of ever closer union in Europe, underpinned by a shared system of governance that allows for more effective decision making. Likewise, they are not conducive to implementation of the reforms that are needed to spur economic growth.

Today s economic silver bullet is an innovation city in Skolkovo, which the government hopes will spur inflows of modern technology.

However, a revolution the way I view it is not a spur of the moment phenomenon that ends shortly thereafter.

Nigeria hosted two landmark summits, on malaria in 2000 and on AIDS in 2001, which were a crucial spur to action.

One would have thought that torture was the result of blunders or unintentional excesses committed on the spur of the moment.