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Indeed, investment in Japan currently accounts for less than 3% of the EU’s total outward FDI.
Our account of the decline of the Roman Empire is not and cannot be the same as that put forward in 18 th century England, and it will differ from accounts offered in 22 nd century Brazil or 25 th century China.
Of course, as in our time, some accounts will be more ethnocentric and distortive, others more superficial.
First, as plummeting stock prices caused the equity in investors’ accounts to fall below the maintenance margin, brokers began issuing margin calls, forcing investors to offload more assets to come up with the needed cash.
In a recent report to the French and German economy ministers, we propose a pragmatic agenda that accounts for the fact that, while both France and Germany need reforms, they face different challenges and must focus their policies accordingly.
If Russian businesspeople repatriate their offshore accounts, their financial indiscretions will be forgiven and forgotten.
Wealthy citizens in the developing world evade more than $100 billion worth of taxes in their home countries each year, thanks to bank accounts in Zurich, Miami, London, and elsewhere.
Developing countries’ governments should request and be given information about their nationals’ accounts.
Now they are the countries that feel most threatened, and bookshops in both countries are full of alarmist and sensational accounts of national decline.
As a small group of countries increasingly accounts for the world’s remaining oil reserves, their market dominance may threaten the pace of investment.
Agriculture, predominantly on a small scale, accounts for about 30% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP and at least 40% of export value.
The mail managers will also handle incoming messages and Facebook, LinkedIn, and other requests as specified by the recipient, and will collect credit card information from senders (or more likely charge their PayPal accounts or navigate other payment systems as they emerge).
But for actual paying customers trying to reach Yahoo!, there may well be a white list of potential advertisers, all writing from their corporate e-mail accounts.
But what, then, accounts for the continuing civil turmoil and government paralysis in the Arab-Spring countries?
Pension reform with private savings accounts and land reform leading to private ownership of land seem within reach.
Although automation accounts for more of the decline in US manufacturing employment than does trade, China has developed a reputation as an economic predator.
But what accounts for the further plunge in oil prices in the last few weeks – to lows last seen in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis – and how will it affect the world economy?
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pointed out, though Europe is home to just 7% of the world’s population and produces 25% of the world’s wealth, it accounts for 50% of global welfare payments.
As foreign firms exporting to China accepted payment in renminbi, the currency piled up in their bank accounts in Hong Kong.
By many accounts, government officials have become less corrupt than in earlier decades, and the World Bank gives the US a high score (above the 90th percentile) on “control of corruption.”
While the US contributes 28% to world GDP, China accounts for only 5%.
Equivalent to 1% of US GDP, it is large by all accounts.
Copper is Chile’s major product and accounts for half of its exports.
The wars’ collateral damage has been massive: by some accounts, more than a million Iraqis have died, directly or indirectly, because of the war.
In emerging and developing economies, government budgets are constrained, while the private sector accounts for less than 15% of total infrastructure investment on average.
The old hybrid – in which advanced countries operated with floating exchange rates and open capital accounts, while developing countries managed the exchange rate via capital controls and reserve accumulation as part their growth strategies – worked as long as emerging markets’ systemic effects were relatively small.
Although research funding is rising, it accounts for just 4.7% of EU spending, compared to 31.7% for agriculture.
The private sector accounts for about 55 percent of Ukrainian GDP to compare with 70 percent in Russia.
Just as a firm needs to measure the depreciation of its capital, so, too, our national accounts need to reflect the depletion of natural resources and the degradation of our environment.
While the US accounts for only 4.5% of the world’s population, its consumers spend $10.3 trillion annually – by far the most in the world.
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