In turn, remittances can spur this development.

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.

More money for education will spur economic growth.

My shame as a spur, I fled the abyss.

Successive Puerto Rican governments thought that the island s economy was in recession and attempted to spur activity by increasing government spending. Low interest rates meant that deficits could be financed by floating bonds.

Increased public sector investment could help to spur private sector investment, which is also severely depressed. In the United States, investment barely exceeds pre crisis levels, even though GDP has risen by 10 .

Low cost domestic energy could help to lower the trade deficit, spur investment, and decrease America s economic exposure to volatile oil exporting countries. A strong federal regulatory framework could help to ensure this result, while minimizing the environmental and safety risks associated with extraction.

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

Moreover, the finalization of either the TPP or the TTIP could spur progress in the WTO s Doha Round. There is no question that a high quality major agreement today, as the NAFTA was in 1994, could cause multilateralism to take a giant leap forward, says former US Trade Representative Carla A. Hills.

In fact, it could be argued that such constraints should spur, not impede, the creation of a European defense structure. After all, member countries would then be able to pool their resources, harmonize programs, and rationalize costs, thereby reducing individual governments financial burden.

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

To spur such action, the public sector should offer funds or guarantees, which, though risky, could offer huge benefits. US government funding of research into hydraulic fracturing the technology now driving the surge in America s oil and gas production dates back to the 1970s.

But, beyond that, Europe s experience ought to spur a full rethink of the global system for administering sovereign bankruptcies. That could mean bringing back older IMF proposals for a sovereign bankruptcy mechanism, or finding ways to institutionalize the Fund s recent stance on Greek debt.

If the aid arrives, Egypt could begin to address some of its financing problems, but it is still in need of a long term strategy to spur sustainable growth. Egypt s economy is facing continued risks, owing to capital flight, rising inflation, unemployment, and populist policies.

National unity is a pathetic political maneuver, she complained, after she was not invited to a rally the day after the attack. But, if the right leaders are at the helm, the January 7 attack could spur a renewed sense of collective purpose and political revival.

Truck drivers, who protested against long waits at customs stations, helped spur the effort. But it took another decade of hard nosed, detailed negotiations, entailing efforts to strengthen the EU s external borders, to reach the point, in 1995, where internal border controls could actually be lifted.

In the longer term, however, the attention the decision has attracted could spur wider use of the SDR. More important, at least for now, the decision amounts to an endorsement by the IMF of the progress China has made toward renminbi internationalization, while reflecting and reinforcing China s growing economic clout.

Japan, which now aspires to enhance its own role on the world stage, must not shy away from making that clear. A bonus here is that Japanese and Indian interest in the Syrian peace process could spur China to play an active role in reaching, rather than blocking, a solution.

By connecting Japan s industries more closely with those of other countries, the TPP can accelerate this process considerably. Moreover, it can spur faster administrative reform.

However, through the attention given to those crises, the Council's leadership can spur action, ensure sustained engagement and garner the support of regional actors and donors.

The saving rate is the lifeblood of any economy, because foreigners cannot be expected to finance capital investment forever. But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call wishful thinking bias, leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.

This is why the idea of establishing a BRICS development bank has taken on such importance. And the recently conducted feasibility study might spur long awaited progress.

Our own generation urgently needs to spur another era of great social change. This time, we must act to save the planet from a human induced environmental catastrophe.

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.

To meet Europe s ambitious 2020 energy targets, retrofitting existing buildings and improving new buildings energy efficiency, including the use of more energy efficient materials and equipment, could lead to roughly 37 billion in additional annual investment between now and 2030. In most European countries, action to spur private investment in local services and transport both large sectors should also be considered.

Because the beneficiaries of trade protection are concentrated and politically influential, while consumers are diffuse and disorganized. Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? 160

In the former Soviet Union and its satellite states, environmental activism contributed dramatically to regime change. In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.

Higher interest rates can spur consumption if their impact on income outweighs the increased incentive to save. This may well be the case for Japan, which has a rapidly aging population.

And they need to have enough flexibility to respond quickly to short term shocks. This comes down to structural reforms that spur competition, reduce unnecessary red tape, and make labor markets more adaptable.

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.

What will force us seriously to consider which of our noble desires can truly help to preserve life on Earth, and which will only spur humankind on to the abyss of self destruction?

But the new leadership s reluctance to intervene in order to spur growth is just part of the story of China s current slowdown. Something more fundamental has happened, weakening the government s ability to stimulate the economy.

The Sudan welcomed the 2005 World Summit's reaffirmation of the importance of the Millennium Development Goals and its call for alleviation of the burden of debt on poorer countries in order to spur their development.

It says that these actions have helped spur world leaders to announce commitments and policies equating to more than 37 billion that is set to affect the lives of more than 2.25 billion people by 2030.

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.

That possibility alone should be sufficient to spur the IMF, the United States, and, above all, the EU to act. In the grey and depressing days of the Soviet Union, an independent and democratic Ukraine seemed unimaginable.

Over the next decade, we might expect that a broad spectrum of insurance, lending, and securities companies will become involved. As these retail products start to take shape, they will spur increased activity in the derivative markets.

At a time when many advanced countries run government deficits, GDP linked bonds would improve risk management and bring down financing costs. They might also spur developing countries to do what it takes to join that market.

On January 18, Alibaba held an e commerce poverty eradication summit in Chongqing, and announced that it would explore a new Internet Poverty eradication model to help spur measures targeted at eradicating poverty and revitalize the rural economy.

Without compensatory measures including pre school education, ideally beginning at a very young age unequal opportunities translate into unequal lifelong outcomes by the time children reach the age of five. That should be a spur to policy action.

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,

Related food procurement policies have spurred the emergence of cooperatives of small family farmers practicing sustainable agriculture. Such measures together with initiatives to enhance poor people's incomes also help to spur rural development, stimulate markets, and promote job creation.

Perhaps Hurricane Sandy will spur US citizens and politicians to take climate change seriously and to implement public policies aimed at protecting America s cities and coastlines. If so, we can only hope that this crisis will not have come too late.

Because the beneficiaries of trade protection are concentrated and politically influential, while consumers are diffuse and disorganized. Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? Because growth and development would undermine their hold on political power.