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Because per capita incomes are higher in cities than in rural areas, the world’s cities today are estimated to account for more than 80% of global income, with the largest 600 accounting for around half.
Given this, it is impossible to address effectively one of these issues without accounting for its impact on the other sectors.
Virtue is defined by good accounting rules.
Thus do accounting rules approach perfection.
The share of tertiary graduates in the labor force rose to 2.7% by 2005, accounting for 16.2% of GDP growth.
This requires ensuring the credibility and transparency of the accounting rules that define budget deficits and public debt, with closer monitoring also focusing on the development of asset bubbles, which cause deep recessions – and thus sharp increases in budget deficits – when they burst.
Creative accounting, long a staple of supply-side economics, has never been more imaginative.
Its services sector is growing rapidly, but is still embryonic, accounting for just 52% of GDP.
It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting beside market prices.”
While one can debate the appropriateness of tightening accounting standards in the middle of a crisis, his order that banks increase their capital is entirely justified, especially at a time when the European Central Bank is subsidizing them with a wall of three-year liquidity at almost zero cost.
In terms of military expenditure, Europe is second only to the US, accounting for 15% of the world total, compared to 12% for China and 5% for Russia.
Waiting three more years as Somalia ticks the IMF’s internal accounting boxes would be a triumph of bureaucratic complacency over human needs.
Government debt has increased by $25 trillion, with the advanced economies accounting for $19 trillion – a direct result of severe recession, fiscal-stimulus programs, and bank bailouts.
Where there is less consensus – or so it seems – is in accounting for this weakness.
The United Nations predicts that by 2040, just one generation from now, Africa’s total population will exceed two billion – 70.1% under the age of 25, with women accounting for 57.7%.
Muslims have long been part of European society, accounting for about 4% of Europe’s total population in 1990 and 6% in 2010.
Instead, America’s favorable borrowing terms attest to the power of misleading government accounting.
Greater clarity about how much water enters and leaves catchments, and for what purposes, would enable smarter policies, just as savvy investors rely on good financial accounting.
As some water-scarce countries, such as Australia, have already shown, such accounting helps countries to allocate water more efficiently among agriculture and energy producers and urban consumers.
When combined with physical measurements on the ground, these data can help governments gain a better accounting of water resources, prepare for droughts and floods, and plan future water use.
Moreover, of the 66 reactors under construction worldwide, two-thirds are located in just three countries – China, India, and Russia – with China alone accounting for 28.
Though Lebanon has not conducted a reliable census in decades, its population is thought to be about 30% Sunni Muslim, 30% Shia Muslim, and 30% Christian, with Druze and others accounting for the rest.
Lately, a new consensus seems to be developing: that emerging-market countries should proceed cautiously with capital market liberalization until they have more of the prerequisites – sound banking systems, proper supervisory structures, and reasonable and transparent accounting and reporting systems – in place.
The EU is India’s second-largest trading partner, with turnover reaching €68 billion ($93.5 billion) in 2010, accounting for 20% of India’s global trade.
Here the EU can also play a prominent role by recognizing Russia’s special interest in proper pipeline maintenance and a proper accounting for the gas they carry.
Taiwan has been a major supplier of foreign capital flowing into China, contributing twice as much as the US and accounting roughly for 20% of China's total inflows.
I am appointing a commission to establish a truth and reconciliation process to put the accounting of these horrors before our own consciences and before the world.
For Russia to prove that it does not use regulated energy prices as hidden industrial subsidies, it will have to make its case using international accounting standards.
But Russia's accounting standards--no surprise--have not yet reached international standards.
Besides, given the stories of rampant corruption in accounting practices in the West nowadays, the EU should be more understanding.
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