This would increase economic growth as well as strengthen national security.

The authorities claim that it will speed up the process of creating an effective e government system.

A more effective stimulus would speed up spending that needs to be done anyway. Or cut taxes to change the marginal calculus of firms on layoffs and consumers on spending for example, by suspending the payroll tax on firms and workers for a year or suspending part or all of the sales tax or national value added tax.

Has the quake given birth to some new, positive political force that will accelerate reform?

Rising CO2 prices in turn accelerate innovation, spawning breakthroughs.

Thus, green policies will paradoxically accelerate rather than mitigate global warming.

I think that hosting Olympics Paralympics in Tokyo will accelerate the recovery of disaster stricken Tohoku regions, and various issues at hand will get better.

Working longer will boost economic growth, for if people work longer, then so does capital.

Raising global immunization coverage will speed progress toward the MDGs and generate momentum toward a successful post 2015 development agenda.

A temporary tax credit for home purchases would accelerate home building, encouraging more in the near term and less in the future.

Whether one calls it that or a desire for a holiday from history, Japan and the UK today seem to be choosing a path that will only accelerate decline.

But it will accelerate the changes that are already taking in place in Cuba due to peoples increasing ability to connect with one another through mobile telephony.

The consequences of this are now manifested in property and stock market inflation, but not yet in rampant and uncontrolled consumer price inflation at least for now.

Many anticipate that China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) will speed these trends along and may even precipitate fundamental and legal political change.

But if China does not accelerate the renminbi s revaluation, the world might see a large burst of consumer inflation in China in the next two or three years.

If they do nothing and simply hold onto the dollars, their losses will only increase. But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem.

If, on the contrary, they try to diversify into other currencies, they will drive down the dollar faster and create greater losses.

The NCPO urged the public to approve the draft constitution, saying it would expedite Thailand's political normalization, making elections possible in 2017 or 2018.

Some people are saying that Shibuya Ward's decision to recognize same sex partnerships will speed up population decline, and that recognizing the rights of the LGBT community will mean fewer women will have children.

The deal also speeds up the process allowing Turkey to join the European Union, at a time when the Erdoğan government is being criticised more than ever for its attacks on freedom of the press and its questionable observance of human rights.

Lower risk also will bring inflation expectations down and reduce interest rates, which will in turn speed up the compression of Polish government bond yields to comparable EU levels, increasing financial stability.