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Moreover, a substantial
amount
of US adjustment has taken place since 1982 – for example, the dollar depreciations of 1985-1987 and 2002-2007 and the fiscal retrenchments of 1992-2000 and 2009-2014.
And yet the deterioration in the US international investment position over this period was not much more than half of that
amount
($5.7 trillion if measured relative to the revised estimate for 1981).
All else being equal, unless China’s commodity intensity, defined as the
amount
of a commodity consumed to generate a unit of output, falls dramatically, its demand for commodities will be greater this year than it was last year.
We are impressed with the
amount
of work that he and his colleagues have put into collecting, assembling, and cleaning the data; the intelligence and skill with which he has constructed and presented his arguments; and how much blood Arthur Goldhammer sweated over the translation.
No
amount
of Red-baiting or French-bashing will change that.
For starters, Rwanda has established a collaborative, cluster approach to governance that allows us to achieve more with the same
amount
of funding.
In such a concentrated risk environment, any shock could
amount
to a systemic blow to the financial sector.
But we learned an enormous
amount.
In particular, China must abandon its land-quota system, which not only limits the
amount
of land cities can develop for future productivity growth, but also allocates a disproportionate share of land to factories.
But no
amount
of posturing can offset the disintegration of the economy’s material base caused by the new equilibrium in the oil market.
Third, the
amount
of lending available from the IMF is being raised substantially.
In this sense, a Le Pen victory would
amount
to a rupture not just with the European mainstream, but also with France’s strategic orientation over the last few decades.
In any case, the issue is not the
amount
of money China spends on guns per se, but rather the consistent rise in military expenditure, which implies that the country is prepared to engage in a long-term war of attrition with the US.
Dismantling these bloated and inefficient firms would thus
amount
to political suicide.
For the 48 least-developed countries, the costs of coal will soon
amount
to an estimated $50 billion per year.
The real challenge for a patriot is to obtain the largest
amount
of pie, not a large share of a small pie.
As a result, total net exports from the eurozone rose less than €3 billion ($3.2 billion) between September 2014 and September 2015 – a negligible
amount
in an €11 trillion economy.
We also know beyond doubt that emissions from human activities have substantially increased the
amount
of greenhouse gases (especially carbon dioxide) in our atmosphere.
We know that the
amount
of greenhouse gases is rising due to our emissions, and we know that this is causing warming.
On the contrary, Singh’s third principle is that the rise of China and India could
amount
to providing a global public good.
The Bush administration’s Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Obama administration’s financial rescue plan cost nearly $2.2 trillion, with the Federal Reserve purchasing a massive
amount
of banks’ assets.
Yet, the damage avoided would likely
amount
to only $700 per inhabitant.
(Contrary to popular belief, what matters is not the actual
amount
of income flowing toward top earners, but the changes in that income.)
But some
amount
of paternalism is necessary in civilized societies.
And, if retail investors saw their money-market funds’ values declining from the
amount
that they had invested, and if they knew that they could not get all of their money back immediately, the funds would become less attractive.
Indeed, it was not until after the eruption of the 1994-1995 peso crisis that the world learned that Mexico’s private banks had taken on a significant
amount
of currency risk through off-balance-sheet borrowing (derivatives).
This could be added to the
amount
of long-term bonds issued to support asylum-seekers in Europe.
Back in the 1970’s, there was still hope that common spending would eventually
amount
to 5-10% of EU GDP, but this dream never materialized.
These budgetary costs (exclusive of interest)
amount
to $652 billion in our conservative estimate and $799 billion in our moderate estimate.
Similarly, payments for those who are killed
amount
to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death, sometimes referred to as the statistical value of a life ($6.1 to $6.5 million).
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