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Because Internet platform companies are networks, they enjoy rising marginal returns, which accounts for their phenomenal growth.
As for Pinochet himself, ever since July 2004, when the US Senate revealed his vast secret bank accounts, the once-powerful dictator has become a pariah.
What accounts for the lag in these areas?
One way to speed up the progress is to limit the large amounts of money illicitly flowing out of developing countries, where it could be invested, into assets and bank accounts in the OECD.
By all accounts, Yanukovych has a tough enough time with life’s easy decisions; this one was way over his head.
Reindustrialization – together with the fight against youth unemployment – should top Europe’s agenda in 2014, with the goal of establishing an industrial sector that accounts for 20% of GDP by 2020.
By all accounts a reasonable man, Funes faces an uphill battle in preaching moderation.
The billions lent to Russia quickly wound up in the Swiss and Cyprus bank accounts of Russia's oligarchs.
Employment in manufacturing fell by more than two million from 2004 to 2014, and now accounts for just over 8% of total employment – continuing a long decline since the 1950s.
The value-added contained in British goods exports to the EU accounts for only about 5% of GDP – several times less than for, say, Germany.
Similarly, the UK does not have to fear huge changes in its ability to export services to the EU, which currently accounts for about 40% of the UK total, because the EU’s internal services market already is far from open.
The specialization of the UK economy and its external accounts toward financial services (and services in general) began when capital movements were liberalized under the internal market program of the 1990s.
Estimates by the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations indicate that the volume of international trade in 2010 will still be 7% to 8% below its 2008 peak, while many or most countries, including industrial nations, are seeking to boost their current accounts.
Consider China, which accounts for the largest share by far of world trade among emerging economies.
Many countries continue to accumulate high levels of precautionary reserves, especially to avoid future crises stemming from reversals on their capital and trade accounts.
This should be understood as the first step toward integrating “general resource” and “SDR” accounts into a single IMF account, and to increase the SDR’s role in IMF transactions so that it eventually becomes the main – or even only – mechanism for IMF financing.
Yet, despite the fact that the United States accounts for roughly 25% of all man-made global carbon emissions, Americans show little will or inclination to temper their manic consumption.
Baker’s talking points were recently echoed in a letter from the NSA to its employees’ families, lamenting that “sensationalized” press accounts had cast the agency as a “rogue element” rather than as a “national treasure.”
But the Chinese economy accounts for fully 18% of world output (measured on a purchasing-power-parity basis) – more than double India’s 7.6% share.
Infrastructure alone accounts for around 60% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.
As it stands, assets under management by banks and institutional investors worldwide amount to more than $120 trillion, of which infrastructure accounts for only about 5%.
In China and India, it accounts for about 80% of power generation, and is helping Chinese and Indian laborers enjoy a quality of life that their parents could barely imagine.
Growth in China (which accounts for about 40% of global growth) fell to its lowest rate since 1996, even as its stock market soared to unsustainable heights.
At the same time, natural gas accounts for 51% of energy consumption, compared to 32% for oil and barely 17% for coal, renewables, and hydroelectric and nuclear power.
Worldwide, gas accounts for barely a quarter of total energy consumption – for example, 27% in the United States and just 9% in neighboring Brazil.
Of course, in a few other countries (Qatar, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Russia), gas also accounts for more than half – or even more than 60% – of energy consumption.
Indeed, three quarters of Canada’s exports go to the US, while foreign demand accounts for a quarter of its GDP.
This, of course, contradicts the wisdom that the IMF and others have preached in the past – that emerging economies should free their capital accounts as part of a broader process of financial liberalization.
Provided other countries do not overreact, Trump’s protectionism need not be as costly as many accounts make it sound.
What accounts for this contempt for democratic norms in some of Europe’s newest democracies?
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