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It is possible for the financial
accounts
to be in order, and yet for the people — who make up the firm’s most valuable asset – to be humiliated and their dignity offended.
Based on published research papers, the country
accounts
for 64% of all research undertaken in Africa.
Sixteen years later, the results are in: disease burdens have fallen sharply, and the Global Fund proved to be a great success (the donors now think so, too, and have recently replenished its accounts).
Accounts
would be linked to workers, not to their employers, ensuring portability between jobs.
In the US, tertiary education
accounts
for over 2.5% of GDP (roughly $500 billion), and yet much of this is spent quite inefficiently.
While the recent labor unrest has complex origins, it boils down to South Africa’s reliance on the mining industry, which has underpinned its development into the continent’s richest economy and
accounts
for one-fifth of GDP.
In one of the more insidious recent instances of malfeasance, bankers at Wells Fargo simply opened
accounts
on behalf of customers, unbeknownst to them, so that it could collect additional fees.
And yet zero-carbon power, though hugely important, is insufficient, because electricity currently
accounts
for only 20% of global energy consumption.
Manufacturing now
accounts
for slightly less than 10% of the workforce.
The Common Agricultural Policy still
accounts
for more than 40% of Community expenditure, even though the farm sector
accounts
for only 2% of employment.
These remittances are not wasted on weapons or siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts; they go straight into local people’s pockets.
In successful economies, such as China and India, the movement of workers from traditional agriculture to manufacturing and modern services
accounts
for a substantial part of overall productivity growth, just as Lewis predicted.
This difference in patterns of structural change
accounts
for the bulk of the difference in recent growth rates between Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, on the one hand, and Asia, on the other.
Even in many developed countries, coal still
accounts
for a large share of power generation.
Indeed, according to a recent study, the decline in tax and transfer progressivity
accounts
for about 30% of the growth in post-tax-and-transfer income inequality in the US during this period.
Using the renminbi to settle China’s international trade
accounts
would help China escape America’s beggar-thy-neighbor policy of allowing the dollar’s value to fall dramatically against trade rivals.
That $5 trillion dollars is not money invested in building roads, schools, and other long-term projects, but is directly transferred from the American economy to the personal
accounts
of bank executives and employees.
In Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak has been at the center of a major political scandal since nearly $700 million in unaccounted funds was found in his bank
accounts.
According to the same IADB report, investment
accounts
for only 16% of fiscal outlays, less than half the share in emerging Asia.
Already, dozens of high-level princes, former ministers, and wealthy and influential businessmen have been arrested and had their
accounts
frozen.
The US
accounts
for only 8% of China’s imports, and its exports to China represent less than 1% of its GDP.
Two generations came to think of declining oil prices as normal, which
accounts
for the current sense of entitlement, the outrage at rising prices, and the search for villains: politicians, oil-producing countries, and oil companies are all targets of scorn in public-opinion surveys.
South Asia alone
accounts
for half the groundwater used globally.
All told, trade with the US
accounts
for more than 80% of Mexican exports and 25% of its GDP, up from 10% before NAFTA.
The details of what happened in the UN protected area of Srebrenica in July l995 are complex, and obviously a Rashomon-like set of
accounts
is what one would get under such circumstances.
In California, which
accounts
for 12% of the US population but 25% of its homeless, this issue has moved to the top of the political agenda.
The Renewable Energy Sources Act, for instance, introduced in 2000 by a Social Democrat-Green government, has enabled the country to exceed all growth expectations in the alternative-energy sector, which now
accounts
for 20% of Germany’s total electricity consumption.
The private sector – focused on the production of home appliances, machinery equipment, construction materials, textiles, and food –
accounts
for more than 60% of Foshan’s GDP.
BanQu is an organization using blockchain encryption to support an “economic identity platform” – a universal, borderless virtual identity card that could keep track of vital information for all 21.3 million refugees, including
accounts
of skills training, employment and education history, lists of past financial transactions, and health records.
More truthful accounts, such as Marcel Ophuls’s magisterial documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1968) were, to say the least, unwelcome.
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