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The bulk of that debt is in Asia, with China alone accounting for approximately $1 trillion.
An end to the Syrian war requires an honest accounting by the US of its ongoing, often secretive role in the Syrian conflict since 2011, including who is funding, arming, training, and abetting the various sides.
With consistent national accounting, governments could make better use of resources, divert production from civilian to military purposes, and curtail inflationary pressures, thereby maintaining consumption and staving off civil unrest.
The eurozone is at the opposite end of the spectrum, with Japan accounting for less than 2% of its exports.
Many are essentially on life support, contributing only one-fifth of total industrial output but accounting for about half of all corporate debt.
At a minimum, China needs an effective system to deal with insolvency; strict regulation of risk pricing and assessment; and robust accounting, loan-loss provisioning, and financial disclosure rules.
The stumbling block has been potential investors’ fear that accounting fiascos in emerging countries would render the bonds unsafe.
Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.
About 350,000 infants became HIV positive in 2008, through pregnancy, labor, delivery, or breastfeeding, accounting for approximately 20% of all new infections.
That is a big accounting loss, but it doesn’t change the value of the American goods or property investments in the US that the Chinese could buy with their trillion dollars.
Critics point to weak budget institutions, muddled accounting, and rampant fiscal populism among island politicians.
Then it negotiated an insufficient haircut and ended up dithering again – resorting to accounting tricks to avoid writing down European public-sector loans.
But, as the Conservancy’s latest report – The Power of Rivers: A Business Case – demonstrates, accounting for environmental, social, and economic risks up front can minimize delays and budget overruns while reducing the possibility of lawsuits.
After 1950, however, solar activity showed no significant rise, while atmospheric CO2 increased by 20%, accounting for the warming from 1970 to 2000.
To the discredit of the democratic world, hardly any head of state remonstrated on Zhao’s behalf, minimally demanding that some accounting be made for his illegal and immoral incarceration.
And, without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.
Oil exporters and China have been accounting for two-thirds of global oil demand growth in recent years.
the banks are using bad accounting (they were allowed, for example, to keep impaired assets on their books without writing them down, on the fiction that they might be held to maturity and somehow turn healthy).
Some of the banks did report earnings in the first quarter of this year, mostly based on accounting legerdemain and trading profits (read: speculation).
H-index accounting is straightforward: if a researcher publishes 20 papers that have each been cited at least 20 times, she has an h-index of 20.
In particular, the accounting, transparency, and fraud rules that govern businesses do not apply to elected representatives.
If the US government had been compelled to abide by the same accounting rules as the private sector does, it would have been forced to consolidate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the giant government-backed mortgage companies at the heart of the recent financial crisis – and to report all contingent liabilities at market value.
The impact on measured GDP and productivity reflects national accounting conventions.
Equally important was the effort made by the country’s leaders to secure access to growing markets in the Middle East, Japan, and subsequently in China, which is now New Zealand’s largest export market, accounting for 21% of exports.
A World Bank estimate puts the global annual cost of poor sanitation at $260 billion, with India accounting for nearly $54 billion of the total (6.4% of its GDP), based on 2006 data (the latest available).
Overall trade flows in southern Africa fell from $131.1 billion in 2002 to $112.3 billion in 2003, with South Africa – one of only three countries in the region that recorded current-account surpluses – accounting for 65% of the total.
The region’s total aggregate external debt stood at $75.6 billion in 2003, up from $56.6 billion in 2000, with Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa accounting for 75.9% of the total.
Accounting for systemic risk has several implications.
More seriously, an astounding 89.2% of the IMF’s General Resources Account is outstanding to European countries, with just three countries (Greece, Portugal, and Ireland) accounting for 68%.
Services like education, banking, accounting, and insurance account for an ever larger share of global output (now roughly two-thirds), and further expansion requires significant changes in existing agreements.
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