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By all accounts, Wolfowitz is brilliant, but it seems inconceivable that an open, transparent, and multilateral selection process would have chosen him to head the World Bank.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in accounts of the global financial crisis.

By most accounts, the adverse distributional features of growth patterns in developed economies began about 40 years ago, when labor’s share of national income began to decline.

Facebook hosts nearly 80% of all mobile social media traffic, while Google accounts for close to 90% of all online-search-related advertising.

By inundating these two platforms with automated messages from tens of thousands of bogus user accounts, Russia was able to stoke discord along economic, racial, and political lines.

So far this year, half of all asylum applications in the European Union have been filed there, although the country accounts for only 16% of the EU’s population.

Consumption, which accounts for about 70% of total spending, is constrained by high unemployment, weak wage gains, and a steep decline in home values and consumer wealth.

Spending in these areas accounts for less than 10% of US government spending, and this share has been declining over time.

First, children demand increased household expenditure – especially on education, which, for only children aged 15-22, accounts for 15-25% of total Chinese household expenditures (see figure 1).

The EU buys half of Britain’s exports, whereas the UK accounts for only a little more than a tenth of exports from the rest of the EU – hardly a strong negotiating position.

After all, though the state of Kerala contains just 3% of the country’s population, it accounts for the largest number of Indians living and working abroad.

By most accounts, the pace of reform directed at expanding the market side of the economy needs to pick up quickly to achieve the ambitious economic and social goals of the next five years.

For example, Chinese cell-phone companies offered 3-G phones much earlier than in America, and when they learned that each phone was being used by several individuals in rural China, they programmed their phones to allow multiple accounts for each phone, thereby adding tens of millions of new subscribers.

In the US, tens of billions of dollars move through law firms’ opaque bank accounts each year, facilitating money laundering.

One unexpected source of wealth that could play a large role is the world’s huge supply of dirty money: multinational companies’ undeclared profits, the proceeds of corruption, and the earnings of traffickers of drugs, weapons, and people – all of which is stashed away in offshore bank accounts, companies, and trusts.

Meanwhile, through arrests, threats, and bribery, authorities are forcing villagers to withdraw accounts of abuse and back out of their lawsuits, warning of the dire consequences of cooperating with Chen and the lawyers.

All candid accounts indicate their internal incentives are not much changed, and restrictions on their activities are unlikely to prove effective as global growth picks up.

Time for a Boardroom ReckoningLONDON – Gone are the days when annual general meeting season – the time of year when executives and directors of publicly traded companies gather to report on their activities, accounts, and plans to shareholders – went by unnoticed.

One of the goals of the national decarbonization plan, which will be launched in December, is to ensure that the market properly accounts for the costs of climate change.

Jerusalem’s Arab population – which already accounts for more than 40% of the total – is growing by 3.5% annually, compared to 1.5% among Israelis.

Given these countries’ affluence, what accounts for their citizens’ attraction to the politics of frustration?

Consider agriculture, which accounts for most of the region’s real economy and employs the vast majority of East Africans.

At the same time, China was slow to open up its financial system – even as other East Asian economies pursued efficiency by liberalizing their capital accounts in the 1990’s.

The combination of lack of confidence in US corporate accounts, lack of confidence in America's economic policy management (compounded by the mounting deficits), and America's soft underlying economic fundamentals, has dented the US economy's global reputation.

By all accounts, the lack of jobs has been as important as the lack of freedom and human rights in fueling the Arab spring.

The same applies to real-estate agents, social workers, and managers of credit-card accounts.

The geopolitical shock was World War I, which made it hard for neutral countries to transact with British banks and settle their accounts using sterling.

Rather than worrying about the country’s food supply, he reportedly had broad responsibility for steering the Kim family fortune through a labyrinth of bank accounts on several continents.

Interestingly, contemporary news accounts reveal little evidence of public anger at economists after disaster struck in 1929.

So if the US and India demand, as they will, that Pakistan disband the Lashkar and similar terrorist outfits that have enjoyed military patronage in the past, dismantle their training facilities, freeze their bank accounts (before they are simply transferred to another name) and arrest their leaders, they will face a typically Pakistani conundrum: the military isn’t willing, and the civilian government isn’t able.

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