Increases in literacy and education, alongside urbanisation and the expansion of the media, have extended political consciousness and broadened demands for political participation.
Better procurement and project management is meant to offset these extra costs, but the evidence that they do remains equivocal.Fans claim that the growing secondary market for PFI contracts, by broadening demand for them, will help narrow the gap between the government's own borrowing costs and the rate charged to refinance existing contracts.
Instead, there are plans to broaden demand by giving tax incentives to individual investors, just 7% of whose money is invested in the stockmarket, much less than in, say, America or Britain.Those who grumble that such policies treat the symptoms not the disease may be encouraged by the second set of measures, which aims to tackle the banks.
The anti-agreement faction has broadened its demands for concessions, reviving past ties to cherished symbols of national identity.
They have linked up with local protest groups around the country, and broadened their demands to include the nationalisation of copper mines.
The discontent in Tahrir Square has broadened from demands for the generals to cede control and anger over bloodshed into dissatisfaction with a transition that has delivered precious little since the uprising's heady days in February.
But they have since broadened their demands to include the release of all those detained in previous protests, and economic changes to curb high inflation and alleviate shortages of some staples.
The anti-agreement faction, unable to base its opposition solely on the arms issue once the I.R.A. had made its new offer, broadened its demands by focusing on cherished symbols of national identity: Whether the British or Irish flag flies above government buildings, and what name and insignia the police force bears.
India has since broadened its demands, insisting that Pakistan end its support to all the armed groups battling Indian rule of Kashmir, cease aiding the infiltration of militants into Kashmir and shut down their training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-held Kashmir.
He gained a nationwide profile when he broadened his demands to include farmers' rights.
