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Ethanol accounts for more than 50% of current light-vehicle fuel demand in the country, and Petrobras – Brazil’s energy giant and one of the largest companies in Latin America – expects this share to increase to more than 80% by 2020.
To be sure, Germany accounts for the largest share of the eurozone’s external surplus, and three related arguments are typically used to justify the call for German authorities to use fiscal policy to address it.
But this approach implicitly neglects the fact that the current and financial accounts are determined simultaneously, and that causation works in both directions.
Given that extraordinarily loose monetary policies are causing unprecedented – but predictable – distortions in German and eurozone financial accounts, it seems ill-advised to suggest that German fiscal policy also be loosened to address the current-account imbalance.
The contraction of private investment in Europe accounts for only a small part (one-third) of the growth gap.
Economically, the private sector accounts for more than 60% of China’s output, and the CPC has become practically irrelevant in the daily lives of ordinary Chinese.
But when an easily extractable, government-controlled resource accounts for a large share of national output, democracy can suffer.
China alone accounts for 20% of the world’s population, nearly 11% of global GDP, but only 3% of global consumption.
After all, the eurozone still accounts for about 13% of world output at market prices – about the same as China.
The saving may be deposited in bank accounts or used to buy mutual funds or corporate stock.
Saving may also take the form of individual contributions to retirement accounts or employer contributions to corporate saving plans.
The general shift from defined-benefit pension plans to defined-contribution plans meant that employees felt the effect of rising share prices directly in their own personal accounts.
Since after-tax personal income accounts for about 75% of GDP, a household saving rate of 6% translates into just 4.5% of GDP.
A new study by Drew Altman, a respected health-care expert and President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, concludes that slower growth in real GDP, along with a lower inflation rate, accounts for more than three-quarters of the slowdown in health-care spending in the US after 2001.
(Indeed, by most accounts, it is about to default.)
Foreign direct investment accounts by more than 1,000 overseas companies translates into 145,000 jobs in Ireland, 70% of total exports, and €2.8 billion in corporate-tax receipts.
And, in the real world, it is the social contract, with its institutions and procedures, its modes of deliberation, delegation, and mediation, and, in particular, its votes, that stands behind the noble invention of a “people” and accounts for the fact that those who comprise it occasionally take a break from tearing each other limb from limb.
By all accounts, Brennan has done nothing of the sort.
And, despite having less than 5% of the world’s population, the US accounts for more than three-quarters of global opioid consumption – leading to a surge in addiction rates and overdoses.
Though freight transport still accounts for 67% of railway revenues, with 2.65 million tons carried every day, the higher fares needed to subsidize passengers have deterred shippers.
In Brazil, the top 1% accounts for 25% of national income.
Given North Korea’s economic dependence on China – which accounts for some 90% of its trade nowadays – it is critical to take advantage of this policy convergence.
When Economic History Improves With TimeCAMBRIDGE – Seldom does a dense report from a statistical agency take your breath away, but the latest publication on the United States’ national income accounts from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is the exception that proves the rule.
On the other hand, the review changes nothing concerning the two yawning holes – the twin fiscal and external deficits – in the national accounts.
The national income accounts, it seems, have caught up to balance-sheet reality.
Part of the analytical attractiveness of the national income accounts is that they add up.
A new reckoning is warranted, one that accounts for the full costs of underinvestment in terms of foregone employment and growth.
Second, investment in real-estate development accounts for nearly one-quarter of the total.
It is a safe prediction, given that Asia is already home to nearly 60% of the world’s population and accounts for roughly 25% of global economic output.
It also helps explain why both Greece and Argentina have sizeable governments (public spending accounts for 46% and 39% of GDP, respectively) but puny public investment and outdated infrastructure.
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