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It is inconceivable that the US could have maintained forever the unipolar dominance of the early post-Cold War years, when it accounted for close to 30% of global GDP and half of the world’s military expenditure.
But they also create a number of social costs that are not accounted for in the market price of their output.
At the beginning of this century, Chinese- and Indian-born engineers were running one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s technology businesses, which accounted for $17.8 billion in sales; and, in 2005, immigrants had helped to start one-quarter of all US technology start-ups during the previous decade.
In 1980, exports and investment collectively accounted for 41% of Chinese GDP; by 2010, the combined share was 75%.
In 2010, South Africa alone accounted for 4% of sub-Saharan imports and 6% of exports.
Then the imbalance shifted, and China registered a $60 million trade surplus with the US, which accounted for 0.3% of the total US external deficit.
Decoupling did not occur in 2008, when exports accounted for about 45% of pan-Asian GDP (excluding Japan) and every emerging country in the region experienced a sharp contraction in growth as world trade plummeted.
According to America's Public Health Service, about 50% of mental problems reported in the US (other than those related to substance abuse) are accounted for by anxiety disorders, including phobias, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and generalized anxiety.
In 2011, Medicare spending accounted for 3.7% of GDP.
As reported in China’s 2014 white paper on foreign aid, concessional loans (financing at subsidized interest rates) nearly doubled from 2010 to 2012 – a period when interest-free loans, which accounted for some 8% of total foreign aid, declined – and now represent 56% of China’s aid program.
In 2011, China accounted for an estimated 52% of the world’s added liquidity.
Some countries – Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine – each accounted for more than a half-million forcibly displaced people at the end of 2014.
This is where America’s multilateral trade deficit enters the equation, for it has long accounted for the bulk of America’s balance-of-payments gap.
Moreover, the transport sector accounted for 23% of all energy-related CO2 emissions in 2004, and it is the fastest growing source of emissions in developing countries.
In the European Union, immigrants accounted for 70% of labor-force growth from 2000 to 2010.
Otherwise, as its population falls, it will struggle to pay pensions and health-care costs in the future (already in the decade to 2010, immigration accounted for 65% of the increase in the EU workforce).
And while only 37% of inflows in 2006 were “hot money” that can leave at a moment’s notice, last year such inflows accounted for 69% of the total.
This additional net worth is transferred to the government every year as seigniorage revenue, which is accounted for as it is received, over a number of years.
The most expensive 1% of patients, those with a tangle of issues, accounted for 30% of Camden’s public health-care spending.
For example, in 2010, South Africa’s richest 10% accounted for 53% of total consumer spending.
Compare this to Brazil in 2000, when the richest 10% of Brazilians accounted for 47% of total household spending.
In 2010, the country’s poorest 40% accounted for just 6.9% of the country’s total expenditures.
What accounted for the limited fallout?
Agriculture, which in the 1800’s accounted for more than half of national income, has shrunk to just a few percent.
Manufacturing employment, which accounted for perhaps a third of jobs or more before World War II, has shrunk dramatically.
Revisiting the Fed’s CrisisBERKELEY – Reading through the just-released transcripts of the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meetings in 2008, I found myself asking the same overarching question: What accounted for the FOMC’s blinkered mindset as crisis erupted all around it?
Indeed, Europe and the US, combined, accounted for fully 38% of total Chinese exports in 2010 – easily its two largest foreign markets.
Overall, countries that had implemented at least one regulatory change that made the investment framework less welcoming in 2006-2007 accounted for some 40% of world FDI inflows during that period – an impressive figure that demonstrates that something very dubious is afoot.
Back in 2011, I noted that finance and insurance in the United States accounted for 2.8% of GDP in 1950 compared to 8.4% of GDP three years after the worst financial crisis in almost 80 years.
Before DFCU got involved, women accounted for 40% of small-business owners, but received only 10% of available credit.
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