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With Iraq’s then-prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, losing his grip on the country, Iran quickly decided to send military advisers, drones, and, by some accounts, Iranian-piloted fighter jets.
Japan accounts for only 5% of America’s exports and 8% of China’s.
The EU now accounts for 75% of foreign investment in Turkey and roughly half its exports and inward tourism.
If personal pension accounts or provident funds are invested in GDP-linked bonds, the payments that retirees receive in 25 years will reflect the growth rate of the economy – and that of the tax base – to that date, which all makes good sense.
There is much to be said for that approach – not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, where direct and indirect taxation on employers and jobs accounts for half of the total tax take, while taxes on capital comprise only a fifth.
But Europe accounts for 50% of British trade, and Britain’s social systems, though different in detail, still broadly similar in principle to those in Europe.
In institutional terms, long-term reform should aim for a shift to a pension system based on individual savings accounts, as in Chile, as opposed to the current state run, pay-as-you-go pension systems.
At the same time, they promote pro-social behavior and a broader, less self-centered perspective that accounts for humans’ interdependence.
The EU accounts for about half of Britain’s exports, and the prospects for continued full market access are dim.
The budget cost of Social Security pensions could be gradually reduced by substituting annuities generated by investment-based personal retirement accounts for part of the current tax-financed benefits.
Energy accounts for 70% of Russia’s export earnings and half of its budget revenue – money that is used to finance the military, nationalist state-owned media, cyber wars, the fifth column in Ukraine and other countries, and the lavish lifestyles of the country’s elites, including Putin.
Russia accounts for some 30% of the EU’s total imports of raw materials and roughly 20% of its gas and oil.
But it accounts for only 12% of the EU’s overall energy consumption, meaning that, over the next ten years, the EU would have to supplement only about 6% of the energy it consumes.
By some accounts, Sparta’s sister state, Athens, had implemented the purest historical example of democracy.
Cardiovascular disease – for which hypertension is the leading risk factor – now accounts for the highest disease burden globally and is the main cause of death in most LMICs.
Despite recent reductions in oil income, the sector still accounts for over 70% of total exports.
Nowadays, India accounts for less than 5% of Pakistan’s total trade turnover.
Given that agriculture accounts for 70% of water consumption, on average, worldwide, it seems logical that this sector should be the focus of conservation measures.
Money used by commercial banks to satisfy the RRR, which is held in accounts at the PBC, can no longer be extended as loans.
When they do, the money they pay is also locked up in the PBC’s accounts.
Its manufacturing sector now accounts for a mere 11% of America’s GDP.
But why should a debt default by the government of a small, peripheral economy – one which accounts for less than 3% of eurozone GDP – be so significant?
The trouble is that residential water use accounts for less than 15% of total consumption.
No single theory accounts for the variety of national results.
Periodic audits of oil accounts also were to be carried out.
According to some estimates, the Arab world accounts for one-quarter of the world’s unemployment among the 15-24 age group.
Chile, which since 1981 has required citizens to save for retirement in individual accounts, managed by private administrators, is supposed to be the poster child in this regard.
And it has proven difficult to enforce regulations requiring self-employed workers to put money aside in their own accounts.
The key lesson from Chile is that a defined-contribution, funded system with individual accounts has some advantages: it can stimulate savings, provide a large and growing stock of investible funds (over $170 billion in Chile), and spur economic growth.
While the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual-assault charges now seems highly uncertain, the ensuing press focus on the IMF suggests an uncontrolled international bureaucracy with unlimited expense accounts, dominated by men with little sense of restraint.
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