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The regime is also set to appoint a tame new deputy prosecutor general to replace Ortega, who has had her bank accounts frozen and is barred from leaving the country.
On the contrary, by discouraging trading in securities, it would encourage investors to shift their funds into bank accounts and certificates of deposit.
As the graph below shows, it now accounts for 31% of overall primary energy production, surpassing coal, at 26%, while for solar and wind combined account for just 2%.
Moreover, livestock production consumes one-third of the total water resources used in agriculture (which accounts for 71% of the world’s water consumption), as well as more than 40% of the global output of wheat, rye, oats, and corn.
And it also now accounts for 30% of global auto sales (and 43% of unit sales of electric vehicles) and 42% of global retail e-commerce transaction value.
Following the verdict, bailiffs confiscated our equipment, prohibited the publishing house from printing our newspaper, and, most importantly, seized our business bank accounts, rendering us unable to pay the fine.
Some are talking about letting people own their social security contributions, in the form of personal retirement accounts, their health care through health savings accounts, and their education through educational savings accounts and school vouchers.
Young people in the US who opt for it would see most of the traditional pension benefit replaced when they retire decades from now with proceeds from personal accounts that they would be free to allocate among a range of investments, including stocks.
There is also a related risk that private accounts would cause a further drop in the personal saving rate.
But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call “wishful thinking bias,” leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.
Twenty years ago, it may have been true that IMF fiscal policy advice focused on the bottom line of a government’s accounts.
That was especially so in China, which, together with other developing economies, accounts for nearly half of the debt incurred since 2008.
These accounts differ in emphasis, but they are not contradictory.
Some poor economies will be directly damaged by the loss of the Iraq market, which accounts for roughly 40% of Vietnam's tea exports and 20% of its rice exports.
Many eyewitness accounts tell of foreign jihadists engaging in violent attacks on policemen.
(Such accounts are, however, hard to confirm, especially after almost five years.)
That contradiction matters for the entire world, because the region accounts for some 60% of global output.
What accounts for this divergence?
It is no coincidence that the only European countries with fast productivity growth in the second half of the 1990's were Ireland, Finland, and Sweden, where IT production accounts for a large share of aggregate output and employment.
When Greek households have to pay higher taxes, they can simply withdraw the funds from their savings accounts and continue spending much as before.
Indeed, refusal to vaccinate accounts for 2% of the children who are missed.
Although Japan accounts for three-quarters of this decline, with only two of the 50 units that are officially in operation in Japan actually producing power, 16 other countries, including the world’s top five nuclear generators, also decreased their output.
But the main sources for ancient India are orally transmitted literary accounts dating to the Rigveda (around 1500-1300 BC) and the subjective records of foreign travelers.
Indeed, India alone accounts for one-quarter of intestinal worm infections worldwide and more than one-half of all cases of elephantiasis, leprosy, and visceral leishmaniasis.
What accounts for the armies of protesters – distinguished, gang-like, by the color of their shirts – whose mutual antipathy often borders on nihilistic rage?
People without bank accounts, mainly the poor, lost what little they had.
China is responsible for the savings side, while the US disproportionately accounts for the consumption side, ultimately turning the Chinese into America’s creditors.
The initial proposal to impose a one-time tax on accounts holding less than €100,000 came not from the European Union or from Germany, but from the Cypriot government, which must have known that it was likely to generate outrage, and that the Cypriot parliament would never vote for it.
And the familiar cliché is all too often true: older middle-class women fail to become financially literate in their own households, leaving brokerage accounts, pension accounts, taxes, life insurance, and so on to their husbands.
The report charges that as much as $5 million might go to one of these institutions in a year, but that a large portion is then siphoned off to her secret foreign bank accounts.
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