Its fiscal policies were already out of control when it joined the monetary union in 2001, and its trade unions were agitating to push wages up to European levels, despite lagging productivity.

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Likewise, modern energy crops increase deforestation, displace agriculture, and push up food prices.

In urban Africa, costs for food and transport in particular are relatively high, which forces wages up. The supply of African professionals and skilled workers, meanwhile, is tight shortages also drive up wages.

Wait a bit, they predict, and wages will fully catch up later in the cycle.

In 1908, he introduced the Trade Boards Bill setting up the first minimum wages in Britain.

As a result, these labor intensive sectors must release a lot of labor and capital, which push into the capital intensive export sectors that are better able to cope with high wages.

In your solitude, you summon up everything you tend to push away in your regular daily life.

If we push interest rates up, Greenspan thought, millions of Americans would become unemployed, to no one s benefit.

Received wisdom holds the United States Treasury and Wall Street responsible for the push to free up global finance.

While Asia s economic output is too small to pull up growth in the rest of the world, it may be enough to push up commodity prices.

Unfortunately, past spending pushed up wages, without a commensurate increase in productivity, leaving the heavy spenders indebted and uncompetitive.

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Nominal wages may increase, while real wages stagnate, owing to higher inflation.

In the long run, wages would fall, and ordinary workers would end up bearing a significant share of the cost.

Along China s dynamic coastal belt, local governments are drafting new economic blueprints to push their firms up the value added chain.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

Through thee will we push down our enemies through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Agitators for reform will continue to push. Regime loyalists will continue to push back.

Determination of wages.

There, capital inflows create asset bubbles that tend to overheat the domestic economy and drive up wages and consumer prices inordinately.

Of this, salaries and wages accounted for VT 34,200 with the remainder being made up from sales of home grown produce.

Just as pressures on oil and gas supplies have driven up energy prices, environmental stresses may now push up food and water prices in many parts of the world.

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In most countries, such intervention would tend to push up inflation, because the central bank issues local currency in return for dollars.

Often called the ratchet mechanism, it could push countries to keep stepping up and help bridge the gap between policy and science.

Record high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Emerging economies are growing much faster than the advanced countries, which neoclassical growth models suggest should push global interest rates up, not down.

Collins followed up her success in the 1985 special session with a push for more higher education funding in the 1986 legislative session.

Upon my right hand rise the youth they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

If Salvadorans wages are squeezed, they won t be buying many products made in Los Angeles unless, of course, they wind up moving there.

Employment growth is simply not keeping up with this population surge, at least not in the sense of decent jobs with decent wages.

And they're going to push that up, from the bottom up into, I believe, into the households. And parents will be reacting to it, and trying to help them with the projects.

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Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international competitiveness.

During the period of 1998 2000 the wages of women constituted 72.7 of the wages of men.

Another round of global stimulus after the downturn is over or nearly so would push world interest rates up and drive investment activity down.

In addition, a fall in the dollar could also push up inflation in the United States, leading to higher American and global interest rates.

Consequently, wages are market sustainable.

Because they had the sense that declining wages are worse than rising wages, even when the total amount of wages is higher in the declining period. Here's another nice example.

If they let the exchange rate rise, they might deter some capital inflows, but they would also penalize their exporters and push up domestic unemployment.

In addition, the Fed hopes that lower long term interest rates will push up asset prices, giving households more wealth and greater incentive to spend.

He repeated several times it was a three wheeled manual wheelchair, which means he was using his strong biceps to push himself up the gradient.

But that will happen only if the other countries wages are relatively more efficient (i.e., productivity there is ultimately higher than in China), and not just because Chinese nominal wages go up. For now, however, this does not seem to be the case in general.