Poornalingam, the senior official in the Textiles Ministry, reckons that exports have actually grown by about 20% to America and by about 10% to Europe in both quantity and value.

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Monetarists are willfully blind to the latter reality, and presume that money of indeterminate and volatile value (and rising quantity) actually boosts economic activity.

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The fact that a 21 percent increase in the value of the Yuan was met with a 38.7 percent increase in import value means that the quantity of Chinese imports demanded increased by nearly 15 percent after the price change.

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Why the Value of Paper Money Declines as the Quantity Rises by Bill Bonner originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.

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What Segal, Zelt and other Canadian officials underscore is that their government-run system is driven by the value of the care and that the quantity of tests and procedures don't necessarily equal quality.

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If this quantity in plain English, the total dollar value of goods and services Americans buy rises faster than 5 percent a year, the Fed should tighten.

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It turns out that the respondents value the quality of their life more than the quantity of it.

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Today our Brand Impact Evaluator and Commercial Value Calculator are far more robust, taking into account not only the quantity, but also the quality of time the brand is in the mind of the consumer (not just on the air), as well as the subtle, and not so subtle, ways true marketers squeeze value out of every dollar they spend.

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