'meagre increase' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that only a small amount has increased, and can be used to describe something such as wages or incomes. For example, "The meagre increase in salary left many employees disappointed."
The union has also allegedly accepted wage settlements that tied workers into years of meagre increases.
But the idea that India's meagre increases in human development are cause for wealthy countries to pack up and concern themselves with other things implies an incredibly stingy understanding of poverty.
According to Mr Hawksworth, the remaining departments, including defence, transport and the Home Office, will be scrabbling over meagre increases in their budgets of around 1% a year.No wonder Mr Brown has embraced the cause of greater government efficiency with such zeal.
The firm, which enjoyed a pretty stellar 2014 during which it doubled profits and shipped 59 million phones, shipped 14.1 million in the last quarter of business which translated to sales of KRW 3.65 trillion $3.33 billionn), a meagre 1percentt increase year-on-year.
Adding to the gloom, the meagre growth was unbalanced.
The mixture of meagre growth and low inflation is dangerous.
Meagre wage increases (for those lucky enough to be in work) mean shoppers have little extra to spend.
Delegates here talk about fretful public-sector workers on £15,000 a year in the same breath as inflated executive pay and £25bn's worth of tax avoidance; even the soft-spoken man from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists takes the rostrum to point up the contrast between his members' meagre wage increases and bulging "City bonuses and shareholder dividends".
This trickle was sufficient to finance a miserly one-twentieth of what many poor countries spend on investment (and an even smaller share of what they should be spending).By the end of the 1970s, those meagre figures were increasing, though they still fell far short of the 19th-century boom.
