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The situation in the US is particularly glaring, given that health care accounts for a bigger share of GDP than manufacturing, retail, finance, or insurance.
The region accounts for 6.3% of the world’s population but only 1.4% of its renewable fresh water.
By all accounts, one of the group’s ultimate goals is stewardship of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
The growth rate of investment in real-estate development, which directly accounts for more than 10% of GDP, plummeted by 16.3 percentage points year on year in the first half of 2012.
China’s investment rate is about 50% of GDP, while real-estate investment accounts for more than 10% of GDP.
However, 1% of GDP is still not a very big number, and the Gates Foundation, with about $60 billion after Buffett’s bequest, now accounts for a substantial share of the total.
But the opaque nature of the deal may further weaken America’s already wobbly standing in Kyrgyzstan, where the contract has been cast as a source of corruption that padded the bank accounts of two successive dictators.
In fact, the farming of animals for meat and dairy products accounts for 16.5% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
Discussing the techniques he used, Ford said: “I did their phones, I did their mobiles, I did their bank accounts, I stole their rubbish.”
In this respect, Wolfowitz, while by all accounts an intelligent and pleasant person, did not do himself any favors.
France not only accounts for roughly 22% of eurozone GDP and 20% of its population – behind only Germany – but also has the healthiest demography in the eurozone, whereas the German population is projected to decline over the next decade.
And, third, growth in the embryonic services sector, which currently accounts for just 43% of the country’s GDP, broadens China’s economic base, creating a significant opportunity to reduce income inequality.
Unfortunately, several emerging economies – with the notable exception of China – relied on these abnormally large capital flows to finance domestic demand, and their current accounts slid into unsustainably large deficits.
Indeed, property that has either been foreclosed or is on the verge of foreclosure now accounts for nearly one-third of all existing home sales.
As for the other nine months, given that the US accounts for only 25% of world income, it is a fair guess that there are some very wealthy individuals elsewhere who might be able to kick in.
So, what accounts for the new seeming willingness of Iran’s leaders to reach an agreement?
Consider the following: Chinese investment in Zambia’s rich copper and coal reserves accounts for 7.7% of the country’s GDP.
These countries have flexible exchange rates, relatively open capital accounts, good fundamentals, and “safe haven” currencies.
The debate about austerity and the high cost of public debt is thus misleading on two accounts.
For the decade that began in 2011, we at Goldman Sachs Asset Management have assumed that China, which accounts for about half of total Growth Eight output (probably $8.3 trillion by the end of 2012), will grow at a 7-8% annual rate in real terms, with inflation around 3%.
This history accounts for the type of conservatism practiced by the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian-Social Union (CSU), who focus on moderation and balance, preservation and innovation, and on commanding Germany's political center.
Latin America is home to less than 10% of the world’s population, but accounts for approximately one-third of all murders.
Though people have until the end of the year to deposit the notes in bank accounts, doing so in large quantities could expose them to high taxes and fines.
Manufacturing still accounts for 23% of the German economy, compared to 12% in the United States and 10% in the United Kingdom.
National accounts must balance.
Member countries’ central banks would hold their residual euro balances in accounts with a European Clearing Bank.
Pressure would be simultaneously placed on creditor and debtor countries to balance their accounts, by charging rising interest rates on persistent imbalances.
With austerity – that is, reducing the deficit, once the recession has ended – recovery might take longer to become consolidated; but once it is, economic performance is even more stable, because the government’s accounts are in a sustainable position.
Despite the introduction of individual accounts 20 years ago, China’s pension system effectively still functions on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Some Western countries – such as Greece – had fragile government accounts from the outset and tipped quickly into persistent crisis mode.
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