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The strategy – which focuses on transportation, urban design, and housing and water management – accounts for threats posed by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, and rock falls in identifying the most appropriate land for development.
It will also aim to enhance the role of the private sector, which accounts for 70-85% of total investment in most economies.
It is lying idle in their reserve accounts at the International Monetary Fund.
These SDRs will sit largely untouched in the reserve accounts of these countries, which don't really need any additional reserves.
For, instead of infrastructure plans, commercial or environmental treaties, or even multilateral action against such common problems as violence and poverty, the issue that dominated both press accounts and the speeches at the gathering was the new US-Colombian military agreement, announced less than a month before the summit.
Abusive transfer pricing – in which legally related entities misprice goods or services – accounts for roughly 60% of the continent’s illicit capital flight, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
If each of these factors accounts for one-third of the net gain, several conclusions follow.
But it can avoid the pitfalls of such an approach by placing it within a broader, more comprehensive strategy that accounts for the underlying causes of the increase in funding costs for businesses.
Most recently, the South China Morning Post’s Chinese language edition had its social media accounts blocked.
For example, in 2004, China attempted to replace standard GDP accounting with the “Green GDP” index, which accounts for the environmental consequences of economic growth.
More recently, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which accounts for the distribution of wealth and social and environmental costs, showed that, while China’s per capita GDP has routinely grown at an annual rate exceeding 10% in the last three decades, per capita GPI leveled off in 1998, largely owing to mounting environmental damage and an increasingly uneven distribution of wealth.
What accounts for Kim’s sudden extension of an olive branch to South Korea?
Today, it accounts for less than one sixth of the global total.
It also accounts for why important institutional differences persist among the advanced countries of North America, Western Europe, and Japan in areas such as the role of the public sector, the legal system, corporate governance, financial markets, labor markets, and social insurance.
Indeed, intra-EU trade today accounts for nearly two-thirds of EU member states’ total trade.
Universal banks offer deposit accounts, credit cards, mortgages, business loans, and other products.
I know these accounts, but I can’t report them, even at this critical moment in the long-overdue formal investigation, because of confidentiality protocols.
Under this approach, taxable income would be determined from the consolidated accounts based on international accounting standards (IAS), which since 2005 have become legally binding for EU-listed companies’ financial reports.
Indeed, in developing economies, the private sector accounts for 90% of jobs.
But we could very soon end up not having enough of the fresh water that accounts for just 3% of all the water available on our planet.
Because real-estate investment accounts for more than 10% of China’s GDP, the impact of this trend on overall economic growth will be considerable.
The euro’s recent rise against the dollar is a case in point: by most accounts, euro bulls have been reacting to the enormous US current account deficit, a surging euro-zone economy, and rising euro interest rates.
Within national income accounts, trade deficits represent the excess of a country’s consumption over production.
The “rare-earth threat” is not confined to Japan, as China accounts for over 90% of the world’s production, roughly 120,000 tons.
So the company has wisely left its cash invested in global financial accounts, not business operations.
Oil accounts for about 98% of Iraq’s current export revenue.
Seven Asia-Pacific economies (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam) have already signed onto the pact, which accounts for a combined 13.5% of global GDP, and more members are being sought.
What accounts for the stark contrast between the mass protests against the Vietnam War and the muted public reaction to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
These trends will fuel higher demand for workers in the service sector, which now accounts for 81% of employment in the US.
Africa today accounts for just 1.9% of global GDP, compared to 21% for the United States and 23% for Europe.
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