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Without technology-friendly regulations and public policies, no
amount
of donations or technical training will make much of a difference.
If there were no longevity risk – that is, if the probability of dying at each age in the future were reliably known – then pension funds could easily offer life annuities to large numbers of people by investing their assets in bonds of various maturities in order to pay out just the right
amount
each year.
Doubling GDP over the next 15 years will necessitate about $4 trillion in investment, two-and-a-half times the
amount
of money that flowed into the kingdom’s economy during the 2003-2013 oil boom.
So any negative impact on the euro from rapid accession to EMU would at worst
amount
to little more than a rounding error.
Simply put, the TPP will
amount
to a powerful tailwind for Abenomics.
Failure to ratify the TPP in all 12 countries would be a major disappointment, not just because of the tremendous
amount
of effort that has gone into it, but also – and more important – because of the vast economic benefits it would bring to all countries involved.
These laws do not yet
amount
to an updated version of the Nuremberg laws (the anti-Jewish legislation enacted by the Nazis in 1935).
As a percentage of GDP, China’s tax revenues
amount
to about 18% – compared to around 26% of GDP in developed countries and around 20% in developing countries (in 2013) – and continues to decline.
Government surcharges alone
amount
to at least 13% of Chinese enterprises’ revenues, with some 7% financing urban construction and maintenance, 5% going to education, and 1% earmarked for flood control.
Manufacturing surcharges therefore
amount
to nearly a quarter of profit, putting a further squeeze on low-profit manufacturers.
The benefits from ecosystem services in Latin America
amount
to $11 trillion, according to one prominent economist’s methodology.
Zucman examines discrepancies in international accounts to provide the most precise and reliable figures we are likely to obtain about the
amount
of money stored in tax havens.
Chile’s annual lithium exports
amount
to a little more than $200 million – just 0.5% of the country’s copper exports.
As a result, the United States and Europe often spend tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to send troops or bombers to quell uprisings or target “failed states,” but do not send one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that
amount
to address the underlying crises of water scarcity and under-development.
That
amount
of warming would cause sea levels to rise, displacing tens of millions of people worldwide.
Nor do these official responses to the crisis envisage limiting the
amount
of loans to some multiple of the borrowers’ income or some proportion of the value of the property being bought.
Sachs estimates that the private sector spent less than $500 million on research and development to develop Sovaldi – an
amount
that Gilead was able to recoup in a few weeks of sales.
Multiples of that amount, however, simply end up as gifts by the public to a few individuals.
In comparison, the United Nations estimates that half that
amount
could permanently solve all of the world’s major problems: it could ensure clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education for every single person in the world, now.
Aside from having his potential prison sentence reduced (to an unknown amount), Manafort also wanted an arrangement that would keep his family safe.
That will not be easy; in fact, it could
amount
to trying to square a circle.
No
amount
of machinations by outside powers or internal forces will impose a settlement.
There are strong concerns about the
amount
of personal data we give to Facebook, Google, and other companies, enabling them to know too much about where we go, what we do, and whom we talk to.
For the coming 2010 fiscal year, Obama’s budget calls for $755 billion in military spending, an
amount
that exceeds US budget spending in all other areas except so-called “mandatory” spending on social security, health care, interest payments on the national debt, and a few other items.
In other words, the US spends roughly the same
amount
spent by the rest of the world combined – a pattern that the Obama administration shows no signs of ending.
But this remains a small
amount
compared to military outlays, and an overarching framework to support economic development is missing.
This is not lost on those in Japan who ask for how long their country will have to apologize, with some even suggesting that after 70 years, a “tweet” on the subject should
amount
to adequate acknowledgement by Abe.
Moreover, the claim that the ECB’s purchases of asset-backed securities
amount
to “toxic loans” that transfer risk to German taxpayers is unfounded; after all, there have been almost no defaults since 2008.
In this context, what really matters is the cumulative
amount
of CO2 being released over time – a fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognized in its recently released Fifth Assessment Report.
They argue that, given record-low borrowing costs of about 1%, increased capital spending by governments would effectively
amount
to the proverbial “free lunch,” yielding sufficiently high tax revenues that the debt/GDP ratio would not rise.
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